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The next meeting is on Saturday, September 27 at 1:15 p.m. in Room 006 of Northrop Frye Hall, 73 Queen's Park Crescent, University of Toronto. This meeting is a chance for TEA members to share photos and articles and find out what's new in books. Summer is a wonderful season for those of us who are partial to insects but it's awfully short. Help prolong it by bringing along your favourite images to the meeting. Butterfly News A rare migratory species, the Marine Blue (Leptotes marina), has been found in the Toronto area. See the Toronto Star article (with a photo by Bob Yukich) and Steve LaForest's posting for details. TEA Field Trips and Non-TEA Activities September 13-14, 2008: Monarch Days (tag and release) at Wings of Paradise Butterfly Conservatory in Cambridge.October 19-22, 2008: Joint Meeting of the Entomological Societies of Canada and Ontario, Ottawa. Summer 2010: 6th International Conference on the Biology of Butterflies is coming to the University of Alberta. News Many older TEA publications are now avaiable for feee download on our publications page. This includes all back issues of our annual seasonal summary other than the two most recent issues -- over 2,000 pages of observations spanning more than 30 years. Copies of our Ontario Insects newsjournal from 1994 to 2003 are also available. Excerpt from the latest issue of Ontario Insects: Kerry Jarvis' review of Jeffrey Glassberg's new book on butterflies of Mexico and Central America is available here. Next Meeting Our meetings are over for the summer, and our next meeting will be on Saturday, September 27 at 1:15 p.m.. In the meantime, join our field trips or participate in an insect count this summer. Our Latest Publications Ontario Odonata Volume 7 (2005) ISBN 0-921631-31-6 November 2007 226 pages. Checklist of the Butterflies of the Toronto Region, 3rd edition, 2007. Checklist and flight seasons; compiled by Barry Harrison. Ontario Lepidoptera 2005 (published July 2007): The latest of our seasonal summaries. See the publications page for ordering details. Contact us for special member prices. Specimens Needed for Research Paul Hebert of the University of Guelph is leading a research group which is attempting to identify all lepidoptera species through a segment of their DNA. For this purpose, he needs 5 specimens of each species. TEA members and others can help. For details on the species needed, see the Excel spreadsheet, which is derived from Paul Hebert's All-Leps site. Send in Your Records! If you have records on observations of Ontario Lepidoptera or Odonata that could go in a future seasonal summary, please send them to Colin Jones or use this email. We are trying to get caught up on the Lepidoptera summaries. Our Association The Toronto Entomologists' Association (T.E.A.) welcomes everyone who is interested in the insects of Ontario. We are an association of mostly amateur entomologists. Although our meetings are held in Toronto, we extend far beyond that in our field trips, our membership, and our seasonal summaries. Come to our meetings, join us on our field trips, purchase our publications, apply for the research grant, join us! The T.E.A. is a registered charity and a non-profit educational and scientific organization formed to promote interest in insects, to encourage co-operation among amateur and professional entomologists, to educate and inform non-entomologists about insects, entomology and related fields, to aid in the preservation of insects and their habitats and to issue publications in support of these objectives. Anyone with an interest in insects is encouraged to join the Toronto Entomologists' Association. Please see our Membership Page for more details. Did You Know? TEA member Don Davis holds the Guiness Record for documenting the "longest migration of a butterfly." A monarch he tagged and released at Presqu'ile Provincial Park near Brighton, Ontario in September 1986 was recovered the following April alive at Austin, Texas, having spent the winter in Mexico at the overwintering sites. Stay in Touch! We can send you regular emails about coming activities -- join the list. You will be informed of meetings, insect counts, and field trips. |