[TN-Butterflies] sundry items relating to leps

From: Stephen Stedman <SStedman@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: TN Butterflies <TN-Butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:14:07 -0500
Today I updated the FOY page at my website, and I sent off about 45 more
records to BAMONA, catching me up, as far as I know, with each of those
not-so-little tasks.  If you can spare a dime's worth of time, please
have a look at the FOY page and see if all the records that ought to be
there are, in fact, there.  As soon as today's BAMONA records are posted
to the website there, I'll let you know so that you can review those.
Many thanks to all who have submitted data of one kind or the other.

 

Included with today's spreadsheet of records to BAMONA was a
photo-documented record of Black Swallowtail for Polk County, the 101st
species to be so documented in that incredibly leppy county.  Congrats
to Julius Basham, Stephen Johnson, and all others who have made Polk the
first TN county with 100+ species on its BAMONA list.

 

Beta testing of the new BAMONA online data input program is proceeding.
I got a chance to work with it this week, and it is a nice program, but
it does not now (and probably will not soon) lend itself to submitting
entire lists of butterfly data, so the NABA Butterflies I've Seen online
resource will remain the archive of choice for me and probably for many
others who want a safe place to store butterfly data, and probably for
some time to come.  The new BAMONA program is intended mainly as a
central place where individual photo-documented lep records can be
submitted, rather than having them submitted to 50+ coordinators, who
then funnel them to the central database via Excel spreadsheets.

 

I am happy to report that the snafu with the Pickett County Diana Frit
record from last year has been made right, and Pickett is now among many
TN counties sporting a record of this species.  This correction, as it
turns out, did not cause Overton County to lose its status as a
Diana-documented county, because there was apparently an old record of
Diana from that county.  So if you check the range of Diana Frit at the
BAMONA website, you will see that only Cocke and Greene counties are
missing from the ones where this species is likely to occur in our
state, and I am glad to report that Greene County will soon change from
a non-Diana-documented county to a Diana-documented county, because Don
Holt just recently sent me a photo to document Diana in Greene County,
and it went out with today's collection of records to BAMONA. 

 

Good butterfly counting, Steve Stedman

Cookeville (Putnam County)
[TN-Butterflies] sundry items relating to leps

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