Forum Herbulot 2010
Location: McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville FL.
Date: June 22-23, 2010. This is the best time for collecting the maximum diversity of local Lepidoptera, especially Geometridae.
NOTE: Instructions for sending Forum Herbulot pictures from 2008 meetings - Place pics in a zip folder and go to www.yousendit.com/ and browse for the zip folder and upload. Type in recipients email address and your email address and send (NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!).
Our McGuire Conference Room seats approximately 60 people. There are adjacent kitchen facilities for preparing coffee, tea and other refreshments for meeting participants. Our Museum's public exhibits and collections of over 9 million Lepidoptera, our Lepidoptera library of over 65,000 volumes, along with our livng Butterfly Rainforest exhibit of some 2,000 flying butterflies and nearly 500 species of tropical plants, would also be available to see. There is a large hotel across the street from the McGuire Center where participants can conveniently stay. We can reserve a block of 30-60 rooms (double or single occupancy) if you wish. There are also many local inexpensive hotels in the area.
Gainesville is served by two airlines with international routes, Delta and U.S. Air. Participants can also fly into Orlando, Tampa, or Jacksonville, and rent a car to drive to Gainesville (two hours or less, on interstate highways).
In addition to local Florida sites for organized field trips for moth collecting, we could also ask the General Manager of Expedition Travel, Inc., a company which frequently works in cooperation with the Florida Museum of Natural History to arrange museum group trips to international destinations, to prepare an optional, inexpensive, post-meeting collecting/photography trip to Ecuador or Costa Rica for outstanding night collecting in Neotropical rainforest or cloudforest sites, with our Center staff as guides.
Powerpoint to come soon!