Announcements

San Francisco State University - Sierra Nevada Field Campus course: Moths of California

Instructors: Dr. Paul Opler, Jerry Powell, and Evi Buckner-Opler
Dates: July 1-3, 2011
For more information: see http://www.sfsu.edu/~sierra/Course_Moths.html

Four new moth species were added to the database:
Epelis truncataria
Adaina ambrosiae
Acronicta impressa
Olethreutes ferriferana

Tyler Flockhart, a PhD student at the University of Guelph, is soliciting volunteers for two projects. Tyler studies the population dynamics of monarch butterflies. This coming summer he will be studying the movement of monarchs throughout the breeding season at sites across eastern North America.

The first project looks at how monarchs re-colonize the breeding range in the spring. The second project focuses on movement throughout the entire breeding season and early fall. Information from these projects will be used in population models to determine how monarch populations grow during the breeding season. Ultimately, this is one of the key pieces of information needed to guide conservation planning for monarchs.

Volunteers will receive sampling instructions, storage envelopes, and datasheets to record their information. Please contact Tyler at dflockha@uoguelph.ca or 519-265-7833 if you are interesting in volunteering or have further questions about these projects.

See the attached flier for more information.

Coordinator James Durbin has supplied another wonderful set of moth photographs to the BAMONA database. Check out the growing collection in his personal gallery, and see recently shared photographs from all photographers in the recent photographs gallery.