A good year for Painted Ladies (Vanessa cardui) several having been spotted locally, having arrived with the heat waves to N Wales from southern climes. Gives me a thrill to welcome them 🥰
#lepidoptery #butterflies #butterfly #PaintedLady #vanessa #BigButterflyCount #lepidopterist
Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimens 🧵
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt
Most changes this week were from updating the Leucaniini for Europe and south-east Asia to match Hacker et al.'s 2002 treatment in volume 4 of Noctuidae Europaeae. All changes from that volume are now included. Working now to update the North American Leucaniini to match Pohl & Nanz 2023 (http://wedgefoundation.org/MONA2.asp).
So much to do to improve these lists - let me know if you are a #lepidopterist interested in helping.
Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histstm
It's worth noting that 73 of these 269 species (27% of the known world fauna) were named by the prodigiously active British #lepidopterist Edward Meyrick between 1885 and 1939 (the last of them in a posthumous publication):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Meyrick
Another 86 (32%) were named in the last 25 years. There are so many #Lepidoptera species being described each year globally.
For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 7 my #linocut Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940) with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, 🧵1/n
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histstm #MastoArt
Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, …
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