Vanessa Butterfly Migration Project; Request for Red Admiral, Painted Lady Sightings

[Hank Brodkin]

Anne et al:
If I am mistaken about the following - please correct me.
Monarchs have relatively tough wings.  When handling them for tagging it
seems that the ventral hind wing doesn't even seem to loose scales.
Vanessa wings seem to be much more delicate and more easlity damaged.
Perhaps a different way could be found to "tag" individuals of this genus?


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Hank Brodkin
Carr Canyon, Cochise County, AZ
hbrodkin at earthlink.net
SouthEast Arizona Butterfly Association (SEABA)
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"Butterflies of Arizona - a Photographic Guide"
by Bob Stewart, Priscilla Brodkin and Hank Brodkin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Kilmer" <viceroy at GATE.NET>
To: <jrlyons at bellsouth.net>
Cc: <mariposa at iastate.edu>; "Leps-L" <LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu>; "Colin Foley"
<cwfoley at pacbell.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: Vanessa Butterfly Migration Project; Request for Red Admiral,
Painted Lady Sightings


> Oh, wow! There is a Santa Claus. (Or would that be the Easter Bunny? To
> merit whose gifts one doesn't even have to be good ... )
> This is exactly the project I envisioned and described to Colin (my
> futurescope at work, of course), only it needs to be worldwide ...
> Royce, can you do that? ;-)
> And of course IBBA will be there with the tags for the released Painted
> Ladies. They're already doing this for Monarchs, so why not.
(snip)


 
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