ULS Meeting Overview: 8 Oct 2005

Conducting and Announcements:  Provided by Vernon Evans.  

• ULS to host Pacific Slope Section meeting of The Lepidopterists' Society 21-23 Jul 2006.  Vernon provided two public presentations to kids during the last month; one to Snow Springs Elementary and the other to Park Library. 

• Vernon showed a butterfly case for the Hutchings Museum that requires more specimens of blues, pierids, satyrids and skippers.  

• The 2006 list of candidates for executive officers were read off:  President Clyde F. Gillette: Vice President: Vernon Evans, Secretary/Treasurer: John Richards.  

Click here for a copy of the meeting minutes as provided by John Richards.

Major Presentation:  First Hour:  John Richards shared a video on his recent trip to Nicaragua.  Vernon Evans shared a PowerPoint presentation on his collecting trips to Cascade Springs, Blacksmith Fork Canyon, The Deads, The Newberry's as well as shared his Hemileuca rearing experiences during 2005.  Dale Nielson provided a PowerPoint presentation on his P. indra, arctic alpine collecting trips as well as his Limenitis archippus rearing experiences this year.

For the second hour, Todd Stout provided a PowerPoint presentation of his 2005 collecting experiences to California, Nevada, San Rafael Swell, Toronto, Maryland, etc.  Todd's collecting trips usually included other ULS members and started out in February, with Jacque Wolfe, seeking out Limenitis hibernacula.  Oddly enough, his collecting season and ended similarly with he and Jacque seeking out "fridayi" hibernacula late in the fall. 

Those Attended:  Preston Hayes, Sherrie Hayes, John Richards, Dale Nielson, Jack Harry, Jacque Wolfe, Todd Stout, Joel Johnson, Bob Mower, Naomi Hebbert, Wayne Whaley, Shawn Clark, Kathy Clark, and Vernon Evans.

Alan Myrup and Joel Johnson discuss moths and dragonflies during the refreshment break--7 layer dip and chips provided by Alan's wife, Linda.	Dale Nielson and Vernon Evans discuss some of Vernon's exotic butterflies.
Todd provides ULS T shirt to Preston Hayes (right) for collecting his first indra swallowtail during May field trip to Leatham Hollow.	Preston shows off new ULS T-shirt.
Dale Nielson and Wayne Whaley listen as Jacque Wolfe discusses Limenitis hibernaculum hunting during the break.	Joel Johnson's moth trap is admired by Preston Hayes.
Joel Johnson shows a moth trap that he invented.	Shawn Clark, Bob Mower talk with John Richards before the meeting started.

All images of Limenitis weidemeyeri on the ULS Info Bar courtesy Jay Cossey

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