What is a lepidopterist

Bob Parcelles,Jr. rjparcelles at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 31 03:19:17 EST 2002


--- "Chris J. Durden" <drdn at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> At 09:56 PM 1/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> - - -
> >  If you are serious about the study of butterflies and
> >moths at any level, then I suspect you are indeed a lepidopterist.
>  It's not

It would also leave out some of the 
> life-listers who rush from hot spot to hot spot without lingering
> for a 
> long look at familiar species.
> ...................Chris Durden (an Entomologist who is also a
> Lepidopterist)


Exactly, like a birder from an ornithologist. 

Now come to think of it, while ornithologists accept a lot of data
from "birders", most of them require a degree, advanced or otherwise
to include you in their ranks. So maybe entomologists and
lepidopterists are more "liberal" ?, less "cold prickly" ? "more warm
and fuzzy" ? or just desparate (sp?) for help and companionship. 

Bob Parcelles
Lepidopterest, Odontologist, Ornithologist, Herpetologist,
Limnologist, Ethologist, Ecologist and Apologist

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Bob Parcelles, Jr
Pinellas Park, FL
RJP Associates, C2M-BWPTi
rjparcelles at yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturepotpourri
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale

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