Re: ATBI insect sorting centers and protocols
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:18:44 -0800 To: pick@pick.uga.edu (John Pickering) From: "Brian V. Brown" <bbrown@lam.mus.ca.us> Subject: Re: ATBI insect sorting centers and protocols I hope to avoid the alternative in which >each dipterists pulls selected taxa and then sends residuals to another >dipterist, who in turn does the same, ad nauseam, in an inefficient, >specimen-damaging, serial process. Pick: As you know, I completely agree with you on this. Lets try to organize some sort of sorting center. The Texas A&M people proposed trying to get something like this funded by NSF a few years ago in ECN news, but I don't think anything came of it. Clearly, a central sorting effort is needed to most efficiently and safely remove material from Malaise traps. Brian ________________________________________ Brian V. Brown Entomology Section Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, U.S.A. tel: (213) 763-3363 fax: (213) 746-2999 email: bbrown@nhm.org http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/lacmnh/departments/research/entomology
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