--0000000000006b049e05b986c536
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Greetings from the Austin Butterfly Forum!
The esteemed Dr. Alma Solis, of the Smithsonian Institution, has graciously agreed to be our January speaker for the Austin Butterfly Forum!
All are welcome to join this ABF Zoom meeting. See link below.
*Monday, January 25th, 2021, at 7 pm: **A Life Spent Chasing Moths & Their Caterpillars, and Discovering So Much More, *presented by Alma Solis.
I will relate how my interest in moths was kickstarted at a cloud forest in northeastern Mexico. This fieldwork led to my life-long interest in the Pyraloidea, or snout moths, one of the largest and most diverse groups of Lepidoptera. I will describe the importance of pyraloids to agriculture,
mostly as pests of crops, but also as biological control for noxious
plants, such as the cactus moth. The adults vary widely in size and can be measured in centimeters or millimeters, and the larvae eat plants, animals,
and even beeswax. The most unique pyraloids are those with caterpillars
adapted to living in and around water; a film will be shown of an aquatic pyraloid caterpillar that lives its entire life under water.
Alma Solis was born and grew up in south Texas where she attended Texas Southmost College in Brownsville and developed an interest in biology. For
her thesis research at UT Austin, she studied lepidopteran leaf miners
feeding on deciduous trees in a cloud forest in northeastern Mexico and expanded her study to include light-caught Lepidoptera. She then
specialized on pyraloids for her dissertation research at the University of Maryland at College Park. Alma has been a Research Scientist in the
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, USDA, and Curator of the Pyraloidea and related families at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., for over
30 years; she was Research Leader of the laboratory for ten of those years.
She has published more than 100 research papers and book chapters on the classification of Pyralidae or snout moths. She has conducted fieldwork and research in major museums worldwide and is President of theThe Lepidopterists’ Society.
Alma is married to Jason P. W. Hall, a riodinid butterfly specialist. An
NPR interview with the couple aired in 2012 to highlight their butterfly
garden in Silver Spring, Maryland.
NPR: Rare Specimens: An Unusual Match-Up In Entomology
https://www.npr.org/2012/09/23/161645461/rare-specimens-an-unusual-match-up-in-entomology
or:
http://n.pr/3iF0fhL
Alma's recent President’s Letter to the Lepidopterists’ Society includes intriguing details of her time at famed Rancho del Cielo Biological Station
in southern Tamaulipas.
http://texasento.net/LepSoc_Presidents_letter_2020.pdf
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Join this monthly Zoom Meeting via your ZOOM app. Please log on between
6:30 and 7:00 pm.
*To join by browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87269323860 <
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87269323860?fbclid=IwAR3F56VvI3LuoSS3cfCZv7jtyEgsGvEkpK6-RoME0AIGmlx1-ohbaNwkTOU>*
(If you're new to Zoom, download Zoom app here:
https://zoom.us/download)
The meeting link can also always be found on the Butterfly Forum website:
http://austinbutterflies.org/ _____________________________________________________________________________________
Our February 22 ABF meeting will be presented by Marc C. Minno, Ph.D. on
Exploring a Tropical Paradise: Cuba and Its Fantastic Biodiversity
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Mike Quinn, program chair
Austin Butterfly Forum
entomike@gmail.com
512-577-0250
http://austinbutterflies.org
--0000000000006b049e05b986c536
Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings from the Austin Butterfly Forum!</div><div><br></div><div>The esteemed Dr. Alma Solis, of the Smithsonian Institution, has graciously agreed to be our January speaker for the Austin Butterfly Forum! </div><div><span style="
background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">All are welcome to join this ABF Zoom meeting. See link below.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-
wrap;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Monday, January
25th, 2021, at 7 pm: </b></span><b style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">A Life Spent Chasing Moths & Their Caterpillars, and Discovering So Much More, </b><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,
0);white-space:pre-wrap">presented by Alma Solis.</span><br></font></p><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">I will
relate how my interest in moths was kickstarted at a cloud forest in northeastern Mexico. This fieldwork led to my life-long interest in the Pyraloidea, or snout moths, one of the largest and most diverse groups of Lepidoptera. I will describe the
importance of </span>pyraloids<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"> to agriculture, mostly as pests of crops, but also as biological control for noxious plants, such as the cactus moth. The adults vary widely
in size and can be measured in centimeters or millimeters, and the larvae eat plants, animals, and even beeswax. The most unique </span>pyraloids<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"> are those with caterpillars
adapted to living in and around water; a film will be shown of an aquatic </span>pyraloid<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"> caterpillar that lives its entire life under water. </span><br></font></p><p style=
"line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:
pre-wrap">Alma Solis </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">was born and grew up in south Texas where she attended Texas
Southmost College in Brownsville and developed an interest in biology. For her thesis research at UT Austin, she studied lepidopteran leaf miners feeding on deciduous trees in a cloud forest in northeastern Mexico and expanded her study to include light-
caught Lepidoptera. She then specialized on pyraloids for her dissertation research at the Un</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">iversity of Maryland at College Park. Alma has been a Research Scientist
in the Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, USDA, and Curator of the Pyraloidea and related families at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., for over 30 years; she was
Research Leader of the laboratory for ten of those years. She has published more than 100 research papers and book chapters on the classification of Pyralidae</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"> or
snout moths. She has conducted fieldwork and research in </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">major museums worldwide </span><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:
pre-wrap">and is President of the</span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">The Lepidopterists’ Societ</span></font></font>y.<font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#ff0000"> </font></
span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Alma is married to Jason P. W. Hall, a riodinid butterfly
specialist. An NPR interview with the couple aired in 2012 to highlight their butterfly garden in Silver Spring, Maryland. </span></font></p>NPR: Rare Specimens: An Unusual Match-Up In Entomology <br><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-
bottom:8pt"><a href="
https://www.npr.org/2012/09/23/161645461/rare-specimens-an-unusual-match-up-in-entomology">https://www.npr.org/2012/09/23/161645461/rare-specimens-an-unusual-match-up-in-entomology</a><br>or: <a href="
http://n.pr/3iF0fhL">http://n.
pr/3iF0fhL</a></p><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt">Alma's recent President’s Letter to the Lepidopterists’ Society includes intriguing details of her time at famed Rancho del Cielo Biological Station in southern
Tamaulipas.<br></p><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><a href="
http://texasento.net/LepSoc_Presidents_letter_2020.pdf">http://texasento.net/LepSoc_Presidents_letter_2020.pdf</a><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color:
rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-
serif">_____________________________________________________________________________________</font></span></p><div style="margin-bottom:8px;color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="line-height:1.3333;max-width:100%;min-width:0px;word-break:break-word"><font face="
tahoma, sans-serif">Join this monthly Zoom Meeting via your ZOOM app. Please log on between 6:30 and 7:00 pm. </font></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px;color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="line-height:1.3333;max-width:100%;min-width:0px;word-break:
break-word"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>To join by browser:<br><a href="
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87269323860?fbclid=IwAR3F56VvI3LuoSS3cfCZv7jtyEgsGvEkpK6-RoME0AIGmlx1-ohbaNwkTOU" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;outline:none;list-
style:none;border-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;display:inline;box-sizing:border-box" target="_blank">
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87269323860</a></b></font></span><
/div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px;color:rgb(5,5,5)">(If you're new to Zoom, download Zoom app here: <a href="
https://zoom.us/download">https://zoom.us/download</a>)<br></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px;color:rgb(5,5,5)">The meeting link can
also always be found on the Butterfly Forum website: <a href="
http://austinbutterflies.org/">http://austinbutterflies.org/</a></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px;color:rgb(5,5,5)">__________________________________________________________________________
___________ <br></div><div><br></div><div>Our February 22 ABF meeting will be presented by Marc C. Minno, Ph.D. on </div><div><div dir="ltr"></div></div><div><br></div>Exploring a Tropical Paradise: Cuba and Its Fantastic Biodiversity<div><br><div
style="margin-bottom:8px;color:rgb(5,5,5)">_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br></div><div></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br><div>Mike Quinn, program chair</div><div>
Austin Butterfly Forum</div><div><a href="mailto:
entomike@gmail.com">
entomike@gmail.com</a><br>512-577-0250</div><div><a href="
http://austinbutterflies.org">http://austinbutterflies.org</a><br></div></div></div></div></div>
--0000000000006b049e05b986c536--
--==============D39334189579803231=Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
_______________________________________________
Leps-l mailing list
Leps-l@mailman.yale.edu
https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/leps-l
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)