[Pollinator] Fwd: Virginia Natural Heritage E-News Winter 2013

[De Angelis, Patricia]

This edition of the Virginia Natural Heritage Program's E-News has an
article on butterfly mapping that may be of interest:

Web Atlas of Rare Butterflies, Skippers, Moths, Dragonflies and Damselflies
Launched

– On June 1, 2013, the DCR Natural Heritage Program launched a Web Atlas of
Rare Butterflies, Skippers, Moths, Dragonflies and Damselflies. This web
atlas provides a wealth of information on 193 rare species in these insect
groups, all made possible by hundreds of records from around the state.
These records were amassed over two years from the Natural Heritage Program
database, the field work of Natural Heritage Program inventory biologists
and cooperators, and in many cases literature sources and museum specimens.
The public can use this web atlas to: 1) enter locality name and receive a
summary of all rare species in these groups by locality in Virginia; 2)
enter a species or common name, and get summary information on its physical
appearance, its food or host plants, its habitat requirements, conservation
status; 3) view a current county presence map for Virginia; and more. This
information, including photos, is provided in printable factsheets for
every rare species in the Atlas. This Atlas was developed by the DCR
Natural Heritage Program and the DCR Public Communications Office, with
funding and initial project vision provided by the Virginia Department of
Game and Inland Fisheries, through a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service State
Wildlife Grant. Check it out at

www.vararespecies.org .

The full E-Newsletter should be posted at the link in the email below,
although when I looked at the site, the latest edition was note there. So
you might contact the VA Natural Heritage Program for more information.

Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.
Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority-US Fish & Wildlife
Service-International Affairs

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Smith, Thomas (DCR) <tom.smith at dcr.virginia.gov>
Date: Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:24 PM
Subject: Virginia Natural Heritage E-News Winter 2013
To: "Smith, Thomas (DCR)" <tom.smith at dcr.virginia.gov>


 Happy New Year and we hope you enjoy the latest edition of the Natural
Heritage Program’s E-News.  You can also find it along with past issues on
the Program’s web site
http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/nhenews.shtml





*Tom Smith                                         *

Natural Heritage Director

VA Dept of Conservation and Recreation

600 East Main Street, Richmond, VA

(804) 786-4554

*Conserving VA's Biodiversity through *

*Inventory, Protection and Stewardship*

www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage

Virginia Natural Heritage Program on
Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Virginia-Natural-Heritage-Program/282078260120?ref=ts////n>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.sonic.net/pipermail/pollinator/attachments/20140106/6133661a/attachment.html>