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CHRYSALIS
The Occasional Newsletter of the Vermont Butterfly Survey
July 2006
Vol. 5 No. 3
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Here's another issue of CHRYSALIS, an irregular e-mail newsletter about 
the Vermont Butterfly Survey. You're getting this because you have 
signed on as a VBS volunteer. If you'd rather not receive this 
newsletter, please reply to this e-mail and asked to be removed from the 
mailing list. Thanks for joining the survey.

Kent McFarland and Bryan Pfeiffer
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Contents:

1. July: The Height of Vermont Butterfly Diversity!
2. Is Your Block Finished? Can You Help In Another Block?
3. Have You Left VBS?
4. Use VTLEPS email to join forces
5. Web Page Pick
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*1. July: The Height of Vermont Butterfly Diversity!*

We hope your summer field season is going well. Being mid-July, we are 
in the thick of Vermont butterfly diversity right now. There are plenty 
of blocks that need some help. So here’s your chance to provide some 
critical data to VBS. We’ve added a new Google Earth coverage to the web 
site that shows the number of species reported from each block through 
2005. They numbers are not exact, but they will give you an idea of what 
blocks need some serious help. Not a Google Earth user? You can still 
see the same data on our web page as a map or a list in a table. See all 
the links below and happy field trip planning!

Here’s the quickest way to locate a block that needs more field work:
http://www.vinsweb.org/vbs/blockneed.htm

Google Earth Files:
Priority Blocks: http://www.vinsweb.org/vbs/kml/VBSpriorityBlocks.kml
Number of Species on Priority Blocks: 
http://www.vinsweb.org/vbs/kml/SpeciesPerBlock.kml

PDF Map of Number of Species on Priority Blocks: 
http://www.vinsweb.org/vbs/pdf/nospeciespriorityblocks_voucher_visual.pdf
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*2. **Is Your Block Finished? Can You Help In Another Block?*

We sent a note to many of year in May about block assignments asking you 
which blocks you would be working this summer and which you would be 
dropping. If you have any blocks that you think are assigned to you and 
you will not be visiting them, please let us know so we can get someone 
onto them. You can view a complete list of the block assignments that we 
have at http://www.vinsweb.org/vbs/blockassignbyblock.htm. Visit 
http://www.vinsweb.org/vbs/effort.htm to learn how you are doing on your 
block.

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*3. Have you left VBS?
*If you don’t think you’ll be able to do any more survey work (we hope 
not) PLEASE take a few minutes to gather and return any of your unused 
voucher cards and glassine envelopes. Drop us a quick email so we don’t 
send you materials for this season. We need them back. You can mail them to:

Kent McFarland
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
27023 Church Hill Road
Woodstock, VT 05091
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Thanks.
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*4. Use VTLEPS email to join forces
*Want a partner to block bust? Need some advice? Wonder what others are 
seeing? Join the VBS email list to get answers to all your butterfly 
problems. A great place to advertise a last minute field trip to block 
bust and get others to come and help. Visit 
http://list.uvm.edu/archives/vtleps.html and join now.

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*5. WEB PAGE PICK
*The NEW Butterflies of North America web page

The Butterflies and the Moths of North America page that shows records 
by county and other information has been completely redone and the 
address changed. Visit it at http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/. All of 
the VBS records will be shared with this site at the end of VBS. *
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Vermont Butterfly Survey
Conservation Biology Department
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
27023 Church Hill Rd.
Woodstock, VT 05091
802-457-1053 x124
http://www.vinsweb.org/vbs

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