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Post by bobw on Aug 7, 2015 11:18:12 GMT
Paul
In reply to your post from another thread, unfortunately it turned out not to be a very good trip. They clearly had a poor season in the Alberta/BC Rockies for Colias, and probably for all butterflies; it was also an early season so my trip was a week or so later than I should have made it, as I suspected from the date you collected your specimens. This was compounded by poor weather (I probably managed to collect for an average of 2 hours per day) and 3 flat tyres in 5 days!
I mainly collected in the Elk River Valley, Kananaskis Highway and Prospect Creek/ Cardinal Divide areas and found the following Parnassius and Colias:
P. s. smintheus - reasonable, but lower numbers than expected above Elk River, Hailstone Butte and Racehorse Pass. C. interior - very few at Elk River. C. skinneri minisni- a few at Elk River and Prospect Creek. C. philodice eriphyle - plenty everywhere. C. eurytheme - one at Elk River. C. c. christina - reasonable numbers in many places but still fewer than expected. C. meadiii elis - a few at appropriate altitudes in most places but not in good numbers. C. nastes streckeri - a few at Cardinal Divide but not in good numbers. I wasn't prepared to make the long treks in dodgy weather to find them elsewhere.
I also looked for C. gigantea mayi in appropriate habitat with no success. I also hoped to get C. alexandra but found no obvious ones, although it's possible that there could be some among the C. christina.
Bob
P.S. I didn't need the bear spray, I only saw one black bear from the car.
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Post by Paul K on Aug 7, 2015 12:49:29 GMT
Hi Bob The weather in Alberta is unpredictable. It changes all the time. When I was there in June ( 15-23 ) I only collected one day 22 June and also near Kananaskis Trail and Sibbald Creek Trail junction. It might be that you went too late there this season as winter was very warm and spring arrived earlier. I am planning to go back there early July 2016 in search for Parnassius smintheus at Jumpingpound Mountain also near same place. I hope to see your Colias when you get things organized.
Paul
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Post by africaone on Aug 9, 2015 9:12:53 GMT
.... I personnally agree that "gender agreement" is an elitist, outdated, vision of science that brings mainly complexity. it is an anachronism created to preserve a kind of social or cast system (a kind of complicate language to preserve the access to some "elitist" profession. I disagree completely with the gender agreement (and other same kind rules) despite having learned latin. My German colleagues (more "legalist") corrected many times some names I let in their original spelling in my papers. Nomenclature must be adapted to the actual society and the technical evolution like the computers and the digitalisation of the information. Nice to see that CINZ is able to pregress (as for the electronic publication).
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