[TN-Butterflies] bamona website updated with 2010 butterfly records
- From: "Steve Stedman" <birdsongteam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:14:34 -0500
Last week I spent about 15-20 hours going through the new county butterfly
records that have accumulated since I last submitted such data to the BAMONA
website. In all, I came up with about 200 new county records, processed them
all, and submitted them.
I am happy to report that the BAMONA website now reflects all of these new
county records, so have a look when you have a chance.
During the course of reviewing all the records that came in during the first
six months of the year, I discovered some records that could not be fully
processed, as the photos needed expert review, or some necessary piece of data
was missing, etc. So there are still probably about two dozen records that
have been subitted that are not yet reflected at the BAMONA website. I hope
that the folks who submitted these records will work with me to get them into
the system.
It was extremely helpful of Kelly Lotts, Paul Opler, and others at BAMONA to
take a break from revising the website in order to process 2010 TN butterfly
submissions. To keep from burdening them any more than is necessary, I won't
be submitting more records to BAMONA until early September.
So please keep sending your records to me, and they will eventually be
processed and submitted.
I have a strong feeling that all the records of Spring Azure that I received or
heard about for 2010 were not in the recent batch I sent to BAMONA. If you
sent in such records, please review the map for that species, or the list of
'flies for your county, and let me know if I missed such a record.
It has been one of the great pleasures of my early old age to be involved in
the effort to map the distribution of butterflies in TN at the BAMONA website.
However, after having processed several thousand new county butterfly records,
I am about ready to hand this wonderful chore over to a new butterfly
coordinator. If you have interest in assuming this position in 2011, please
let me know.
Steve Stedman
Cookeville (Putnam County)
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