>Our two leading authorities on butterflies in Washington include an
>extremely knowledgable owner of a small trucking company, and a well-known
>writer/lecturer.

The latter would be Robert Pyle, I presume, author of the Audubon
butterfly guide and a founder of the Xerxes Society (butterfly
conservation society named after one which went extinct in
the US, LA Basin if I remember correctly which I may not)?

> And the leading authority on dragonflies, internationally
>recognized BTW, is our own Dennis Paulson. Note that none of these
>top-of-the-field experts are employed specifically to study insects.

So this is why he's bringing dragonfly specimens back home from
south america, eh?

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>