Keep up the good work!!! Thanks, BOI team. On 15 September 2011 02:12, Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected]>wrote:
> ** > > > Hi all, > > Here’s the latest update on the Butterflies of India website, which I just > prepared for this page: > > > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/latest/boi-update-564-species-pages-176-lifecycles-8500-reference-photos-2011/09/13 > > *BOI update: 564 species pages, 176 lifecycles, 8,500 reference photos: 13 > Sept. 2011 > * > Another month, another major development: On 13 Sept. 2011, the Butterflies > of India has 564 species pages, 176 lifecycles, identification keys for > three species groups, and 8,500 reference images. In the past two months we > have taken up one challenging group after another and built species pages > for a large proportion of species from those groups. Examples include * > Lethe* (Treebrowns, Foresters, Silverforks < > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/search/lethe> , etc.), *Ypthima* (Rings) < > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/search/ypthima> , and *Mycalesis*(Bushbrowns) < > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/search/mycalesis> . We also have a fairly > good representation of many species-rich and relatively easy groups, such as > *Papilio* (Mormons, Ravens, Helens, Peacocks, Mimes < > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/search/papilio> , etc.), *Graphium* (Jays, > Swordtails, Zebras, <http://ifoundbutterflies.org/search/graphium> etc.), > *Euthalia *and* Tanaecia* (Barons, Counts, Earls, etc.) < > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/search/euthalia> , *Athyma* (Sergeants) < > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/search/athyma> , *Euploea* (Crows) < > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/search/euploea> , and *Arhopala* (Oakblues) < > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/search/arhopala> . All the 564 species pages > and the 176 lifecycles, along with the latest additions, can be easily > accessed at there two pages: > > > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/species-pages/history-of-species-pages-on-butterflies-of-india-website > > > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/species-pages/lifecycles-on-butterflies-of-india-website > > Major players in this recent development have been Rohan Lovalekar, Gaurav > Agavekar, Hemant Ogale, Subramanyam Kalluri, Rohit Girotra, Rudraprasad Das, > K. Saji, Balakrishnan Valappil, Shyam Ghate, Satyendra Kumar Tiwari, K. M. > Haneesh, Sanjay Sondhi, Kalesh Sadasivan and Ullasa Kodandaramaiah. Big > thanks to them and to a host of other people who contributed an assortment > of images. > > It appears that our website is now heavily used: we have had 256,000 > visits since the website was launched in January 2010, but over 240,000 of > these visits in the past eight months alone. That is, slightly over 1,000 > visits per day since we recovered the website towards the end of January > 2011. > > We hope to continue to grow at this pace, and remain just as helpful to > the Indian butterfly-watching community, in the future. As always, your > participation and contributions towards building this free, peer-reviewed, > online resource on Indian butterflies are welcome. We can thrive only as a > large, dedicated team. > > -- Krushnamegh Kunte, editor, *Butterflies of India*. 13 Sept. 2011. > ------------------------- > > 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] > Personal website: http://biodiversitylab.org/ > > Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ > Other emails: [email protected], [email protected] > > > -- 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 1700 members & 79,000 messages on 31/8/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of around 5500 species) -- Enjoy
