From entomike at gmail.com Mon Apr 28 15:00:09 2025 From: entomike at gmail.com (Mike Quinn) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:00:09 -0500 Subject: [Leps-l] ABF presentation on over 500 Faunal Surveys at the Wildflower Center - Monday, Apr 28th @ 7pm Central In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Greetings, Val Bugh will be Austin Butterfly Forum's April speaker. This meeting will be a joint in-person meeting at Zilker Botanical Gardens and broadcast live via Zoom. *Date*: Monday, Apr 28th @ 7pm central time zone, (Dallas/Chicago time) *Title*: The Fauna Project *Description*: Gardens are more than collections of plants; they are dynamic ecosystems. Through a program of weekly surveys initiated in early 2010 and now totalling over 500(!) surveys, a group of nature-loving volunteers has been consistently recording data on the animals found within the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, TX. From inception to the vast number of identifications and observations accumulated, this program tells the story of The Fauna Project. Photography is an important tool in this study, so there is no dearth of colorful images to highlight the insects, spiders, birds, reptiles, etc. and their behaviors. Take a close look at the biome, glimpse some of the diverse residents in an organically cultivated native plant habitat and see why variety is the spice of life. *Bio*: Val is a most extraordinary self-taught naturalist, web designer, macro photographer, instructor, artist and musician!! Val specializes in the arthropods of the Austin area, with interests in taxonomy, ecology and photography. Her current activities include running The Fauna Project at UT, Austin's Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, leading insect discovery walks, teaching community/outreach entomology courses, providing insect/spider identifications, giving slideshow talks to local organizations, and studying the wildlife here in Travis county. Her photos have appeared in various books and other publications, and she is the author of folding waterproof pocket guides to "The Butterflies of Central Texas," "Unusual Insects of Texas," "Spiders of Florida" and "Spiders of Texas," as well as spider guides for other SE states. Val is a member of the Austin Butterfly Forum, and sometimes participates in activities with the Capital Area Master Naturalists (of which she is an honorary member). Additionally, Val maintains a most helpful local insect website called Austin Bug Collection and is a significant contributor to both the Moth Photographers Group < https://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/VGIndex.shtml> and to BugGuide < https://bugguide.net/user/view/2893> For those of us fortunate enough to have learned from Val, most of us consider her to be something of a national treasure!! *Zoom Link*: bit.ly/3DdDss8 (should open ~6:30 pm central time) - We should have the zoom kinks worked out this time!! (This meeting will be recorded for those still immersed in iNat activities!!) Thank you for your interest!! Mike Quinn San Marcos TX 512-577-0250 - text -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: title-faunaproject.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 30557 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Valerie_Bugh_2010.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 29665 bytes Desc: not available URL: From sunny_phillips at yahoo.com Mon Apr 28 22:01:02 2025 From: sunny_phillips at yahoo.com (sunny phillips) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 22:01:02 -0400 Subject: [Leps-l] ABF presentation on over 500 Faunal Surveys at the Wildflower Center - Monday, Apr 28th @ 7pm Central References: <077975A7-61D6-4262-8565-5B9714FC0456.ref@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <077975A7-61D6-4262-8565-5B9714FC0456@yahoo.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: title-faunaproject.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 30557 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Valerie_Bugh_2010.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 29665 bytes Desc: not available URL: