Thanks, JM :).
From: "J. M. Garg" <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:56:08 -0400 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] BOI now has 412 species pages, 146 lifecycles and 6,000 photos: 8 July '11 Congrats to IFB team !!! Pl. continue this great journey. On 9 July 2011 19:22, Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 that¹s on the > website right now: > > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/species-pages/history-of-species-pages-on-butterf > lies-of-india-website > > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/species-pages/history-of-lifecycle-pages-on-butte > rflies-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] > <http://[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] <http://[email protected]> > Other emails: [email protected] <http://[email protected]> , > [email protected] <http://[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 -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1630 members & 73,000 messages on 30/6/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of around 5000 species) -- Enjoy
