The Suffolk Argus
Branch Photograph Album& Branch Display Boards - Photos Appeal
May 1996
We are putting together an album of photographs to use for publicity purposes at events like the Suffolk Show. If you can spare any pictures of butterflies, sites, members on field trips etc. please sendthem to me (address on back cover) with details of the location etc. All photos used in the album will be attributed to the photographer when known. I am also preparing some display boards for the Suffolk Show and urgently need pictures of Dingy Skipper, Swallowtail, Large Heath and Brown Hairstreak. For these four species I need either-a transparency (I'll get a print made and return transparency to you), or a photograph I can cut to size and use, or a 35mm negative (to get a print and return negative to you). Please help if you can. Thank you
by Steven Goss
Wanted Butterflies of Trinidad and Tobago by M. Barcant. Pub!. 1970. If you've got a copy of this book, let me try and make you an offer you can't refuse! Tel: Steven Goss (01379) 783386.
Notes from the Editor Millennium Survey Update Around thirty members from the Suffolk branch and the Suffolk Naturalists' Society attended this event at the Ipswich Museum on Saturday 23rd March. RichardStewart gave a detailed account of the first year of the survey in terms of numbers of tetrads covered and several individual species tetrad maps were shown on overhead projector for the members to see (thanks Martin). Howard Mendel had arranged for part of the Museum collection of butterflies to be on display. Sadly, many of the butterflies on display no longer being resident in Suffolk. For many people there it was the first time they had seen the collection. Thanks go to Howard Mendel, Martin Sanford and RichardStewart for arranging this event. For a more detailed account of the first year of the survey please see RichardStewarts article starting on page 10.
A good, usable secondhand moth trap. Mercury Vapour preferred.
Thanks again to DouglasHammersley,Beryl Johnsonand Angie Steek for their splendid line drawings that appear in this issue of the Suffolk Argus.
Branch Conservation Officer (Moths) In the last Newsletter we announced that TonyPrichardwill be taking over from Roger Kendrickin the summer. I would to take this opportunity to thank Rogerfor all the work he has done for the Branch (not only moths) since its creation in 1993.
Cold Winter As many of you will have noticed it was the coldest winter for many years. At the recent Millennium survey update at Ipswich Museum, Howard Mendel explained that a hibernating butterfly is likely to use less energy reserves in a cold winter than a mild one. Richard Stewart has already received reports of a hibernating Camberwell Beauty and 3 on the wing (unfortunately not in Suffolk). Could it be that this year sufficient numbers survive to breed for the first time. You never know it could be you that records this event.
1996 AGA-fReport We are sorry that this edition of the newsletter does not have the 1996 AGM report. A full report with accounts will be in the next edition of the Suffolk Argus.
Scientific Names
Wanted
Illustrations
We have decided to discontinue use of scientific names in text unless required by the article. If you have any particular feelings otherwise, let us know.
Member's Evening The committee are trying to arrange another members evening for the autumn. We would like to hold a branch photographic competition (prints only) at this event. Full details will be in the next edition of the Suffolk Argus.
Tel. Steven Goss (01379) 783386.
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