Dear Induchoodan, If u go to the bottom of this email you can see a link Indian Foundation for Butterflies.TheURL is also there, Regards, Vishnu
From: induchoodan A <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] BOI now has 412 species pages, 146 lifecycles and 6,000 photos: 8 July '11 >From Where we can get the same-BOI Induchoodan--- On Tue, 7/12/11, Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected]> wrote: >From: Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] BOI now has 412 species pages, 146 lifecycles >and 6,000 photos: 8 July '11 >To: "butterflyindia" <[email protected]> >Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 5:26 AM > > > >Satyendra, the 1,800 number is approximately correct, although the exact >number will vary a little bit depending on which taxa we consider valid. The >1,800 taxa includes species and subspecies, which adds up. If you consider >just species, then it is between 1,200 and 1,300. The species + subspecies >total will be between 1,700 and 1,800, the 400 to 600 additional taxa being >treated as subspecies. More about this in the upcoming Catalogue. > >Krushnamegh. >From: Satyendra Tiwari <[email protected]> >Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> >Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:33:14 -0400 >To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] BOI now has 412 species pages, 146 lifecycles >and 6,000 photos: 8 July '11 > > > > > > >I just received Down to Earth Magazine that mentions with 1800 known species >and subspecies in India. >Which is Totally wrong now. > > >Satyendra K.Tiwari >Wildlife Photographer, Naturalist & Tour Leader >H.No 129, P.O.Tala. Distt Umaria M.P. India >Pin code 484-661 >Tel. No. 07627-265309 day time phone only > > >From:"Kunte, Krushnamegh" <[email protected]> >To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> >Sent: Mon, 11 July, 2011 9:02:12 AM >Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] BOI now has 412 species pages, 146 lifecycles >and 6,000 photos: 8 July '11 > > > > >Dear Kishen, > >Thanks for your encouragement and support. We will eventually have all the >Indian species and subspecies covered on the website, we are working steadily >towards that goal. > >BTW, it is commonly said that there are approx. 1,500 butterfly species in >India. That number is now outdated. I have listed all the Indian species and >subspecies for my upcoming Catalogue, and there are no more than 1,300 species >in India, and possibly as few as 1,200. More information about this will be in >the Catalogue. > >We have learned from our first server crash and virus attack. Now we take >daily backups and frequently download backup copies on two computers and also >store these on three external hard drives in at least three different places. >We also handle all the uploads/downloads only from Mac and Linux computers, >which are way less vulnerable to virus attacks and they are scanned daily with >updated virus scanners, anyway. I sleep well nowadays with the assurance that >we are extremely highly unlikely to lose the website again, or any photographs >and data, for that matter. > >With best wishes, > >Krushnamegh. > >From: Kishen Das <[email protected]> >Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> >Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 19:57:16 -0400 >To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] BOI now has 412 species pages, 146 lifecycles >and 6,000 photos: 8 July '11 > > > > > > >Dear Krushnameghji and team, > >It would be amazing once we have 1501 species on IFB. >It would be the ultimate reference point. > >Congratulations to all the people. >It indeed takes lot of hard work behind such a website. > >Please keep taking multiple backups of the entire website, say every weekend. >I guess most of the websites now-a-days also support auto-backups. > >Thanks, >Kishen > > >On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:52 AM, 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 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] >><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 <tel:%28617%29%20496-0078> , Cell: (512) 577-1370 >><tel:%28512%29%20577-1370> , Fax: (617) 495-2196 <tel:%28617%29%20495-2196> >>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 >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Enjoy
