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Calendar
BugGuide Gathering
Pack Forest
Washington State
July 10-12, 2009
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Photos from the 2008 gathering in Tennessee
 
Photos from the 2007 gathering in Minnesota

v belov, Contributing Editor
E-mail address:
vmarfus {at} gmail
City, state, country:
Maplewood, NJ
Biography:

Do not hesitate to write [I may be a slow replier though]
Formal background in entomology. Familiar with many groups of Palearctic beetles and true bugs, with a nerdy bias towards tiny arthropods and otherwise ‘unpopular,’ overlooked, obscure, uncharismatic taxa.

" Say’s remote location, his ideal of improving society through education, and his commitment to the diffusion of scientific knowledge by means of elaborately illustrated publications, caused his estrangement from the more narrowly focused systematicists…"
W.C. Sorensen (1995) Brethren of the net: American entomology, 1840–1880: 10
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"Wunderlich, hoechst wunderlich," sprach der Doktor und versank in stummes Nachdenken.
"Der Kaeferkoenig," fuhr er dann fort, "der Kaeferkoenig kann es nicht sein, denn der ist, wie ich gewiss weiss, eben jetzt anderswo beschaeftigt; Spinnenmarschall auch nicht, denn Spinnenmarschall ist zwar haesslich, aber verstaendig und geschickt, lebt auch von seiner Haende Arbeit, ohne sich andrer Taten anzumassen. - Wunderlich - sehr wunderlich."
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