Folks, after recovering the Butterflies of India website on 6 Feb. 2011 and bringing the number of species pages to 135, we set ourselves what now appears as a modest target of 300 species pages. In the past five months we have made much progress and comfortably surpassed the target. Today, the Butterflies of India website has 412 species pages, 146 lifecycles, and approximately 6,000 reference photographs. Major additions to species pages and to the collection of reference photographs came from recent field trips of our team members to the Garo Hills in Meghalaya, and from Sikkim in the Eastern Himalaya. The lifecycles were mostly the work of Dr. Saji K., who has contributed more than a hundred lifecycles and nearly 2,000 images to the website by now. Rohan Lovalekar and Gaurav Agavekar have taken some of the most stunning images of Indian butterflies that I have seen so far, and photographed hundreds of species in the past one or two years. In the past 3-4 months, they have also tirelessly formatted many of these pictures for the website, including those images given to them by others. Hats off to Saji, Rohan and Gaurav!
Here are two links that will lead you to most of the stuff that’s on the website right now: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/species-pages/history-of-species-pages-on-butterflies-of-india-website http://ifoundbutterflies.org/species-pages/history-of-lifecycle-pages-on-butterflies-of-india-website Haneesh K. M., Subramanyam Kalluri, Hemant Ogale and Rudra Prasad Das have recently started to format a lot of their images for the website, covering areas of Bengaluru, Andhra Pradesh, southern Maharashtra and West Bengal, respectively. This shall bring important regional representation of butterflies and cover wing pattern variation of Indian butterflies on the website. I hope that we will touch 500 species pages and nearly 8-10,000 reference images on the website by the end of this year. Your contributions are always appreciated, especially if you cover species that are not on the website yet, contribute photographs from an area that is not well represented on the website, or have captured unusual wing pattern variation in a particular species. Feel free to write to me <[email protected]> with any thoughts, suggestions and contributions. With best wishes, Krushnamegh. ------------------------------------------------- Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD Post-doctoral Research Fellow FAS Center for Systems Biology Harvard University 52 Oxford St., Northwest Lab Room 458.40-3 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Ph: (617) 496-0078, Cell: (512) 577-1370, Fax: (617) 495-2196 Email: [email protected] Other emails: [email protected], [email protected] Personal website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh -- Enjoy
