*Thursday, October 11, 2012**7:30**p.m.* at the Robinson Nature Center
*/Howard County Bird Club's Spontaneous On-Line Butterfly Photo-Guide/*,
by Richard H. Smith. Dick is also a long-time member of the bird club.
He will discuss the history and organization of the club's butterfly
photo gallery and point out occurrence trends and the current status of
several of our county species.
In the spring of 2011 the Howard County Bird Club (HCBC) initiated a
photographic webpage and gallery, "The Butterflies of Howard County,
Maryland" _http://howardbirds.org/butterflies/HC_Butterfly_photos.htm_
to facilitate the knowledge and identification of its local butterfly
fauna. Images of all county-recorded butterfly species were requested
from local amateur nature photographers with the explicit requirement
that submitted photographs were to be taken from somewhere in Howard
County, Maryland. After only a year and a half devoted to this
endeavor, the HCBC has been successful in accumulating an extensive
gallery of all but 12 of its county-recorded and still extant butterfly
species. However, the effort has also been successful in reaping an
extraordinary side benefit. With so many local amateur nature
photographers devoted to this task, the project has been able to
establish, in the short time period of the project, three new county
butterfly records; and it has been able to locate several other
butterfly species not previously recorded by anyone in the county for
almost 40 years.
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Bob Solem
Webmaster
Howard County Bird Club
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Laurel, MD 20723
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