emmayct - Maryann Thanks for the WB. Your niece is in what appears to be a very bleak area to the layman, but that is actually very diversified to study many forms of wildlife and plants. Great area for migrating leps and includes some resident species not seen often without some serious work or rock climbing on your part. Bet she gets to Railroad Pass - an area with easy access that holds a lot of those species. Hope she loves the area - it's a good one for a biologist. tdogmom - CalSherry From what I have been seeing on the news the last couple of months, the whole country has been experiencing hotter than normal temps and excessive rain. Will be interesting to see what long lasting effect it has on the leps and their larval/nectaring food plants, if any. susanlynne48 - Susan Congrats on all the sphinx moths. On the moth side of the leps, Sphingidae were one of my specialties behind the Saturnidae and Arctiidae. Was lucky enough to get to MV/black light and rear them in many countries over the years. A fun group with certain species having among the most interesting life histories in the lep world. As for your question... divorced 5 years now so the ex wouldn't mind. LOL But with only 2 endemic species and around a dozen and a half introduced, there is not much diversity in leps on the islands. Even so, some species occur in horrendous numbers in that tropical environs and have become a real problem. BTW, I had a huge black female P. bairdii in my yard this morning. I used to rear them often when I lived in the frozen north. But I've seen very few in Vegas in 10 years here despite finding clumps of their preferred larval food plant (Atemisia dracunculus - Tarragon) growing wild here and there on the southern NV Mojave Desert.

Tam, that is so exciting about your son. I'm really happy for you. Lori, that sounded scary about your grandson and I'm very relieved to hear he's ok now. My 18 yr old granddaughter moved in with us 3 wks ago, she moved back to Phx from Ala. and will go to beauty college and work. Be awhile before she can afford to live on her own and I had a spare room. Plus my 22 yr old grandson LEFT Iraq yesterday and will be home next week, after a debriefing time in El Paso. I've been a wreck with worry the past year over him. He's had several real close calls but thankfully none of his unit killed. Just wish ALL the troops could come home. hugs, Karen

Phylis, As Chase said, this isn't the same pregnancy. Talking about unexpected surprises. I had my tubes tied and cut when I had the c-section with Hayden a year ago July. Then when he was 5 and half months old I found out I was 3 weeks pregnant. So yeah except for 5 months I have been pregnant 16 months. I am so excited about your surprise coming. I was nervous before Hayden came thinking we would be outnumbered by kids, but now with number 4 on the way it is evened up with me and 2 girls and DH and 2 boys. BTW when are you due, I am due in the middle of November and will have a c-section November 7th. Good to see you back, missed you. I was feelin bummed, last time Whiteorchid and I would compare pregnancy pics, and I didn't have any CF pregnant this time aroung, now you and I can be the prego CF members with all the cravings. (Even though I want fast food, and found out a week ago that I have gallstones and will have to have surgery 6 weeks after the baby is born, so no fast or greasy food for me for another 2 and half months) Stacie who is still pregnant lol

oh wow- here is the system my DD H.S. used. It can be hectic but did work. Get plain paper bags -grocery size. Number them. Put long tables as a work space and also to keep the students on one side and the adults and bags on the other side. Be sure the bags are in numerical order in and then break them into 4 to 6 piles with a couple of adults working each pile. Now when the student comes up you put all of their belonging into a numbered bag-frequently friends or couples want to share a bag. You put the bag's number on a piece of paper and hand it to them and you ALSO ask them if you can magic marker it somewhere on their arm (usually the guys but the girls like it on their palm). Then you line the bags up behind the tables on the floor. So- if you had 200 students you will have around 140-160 bags. Make you rows about 30 long and have about 5 rows. I think it would be helpful to have a sign on the floor and on the back wall giving the numbers that should be in each row. IF they do get out of order then you need only seach 30 numbers not all 160 to find the bag. Yes, the clothes get wrinkled. Yes, they come back again and again and ask for their bag to get a cell phone out or their comb. The important thing is that the bag is handed to them to get their own item out and then it is PUT BACK in numerical order. Yes the adults are exhausted by the end of the evening and there are always a couple of confused/lost bags. It is crazy at the very end and you need to make sure that the students do not break rank and come behind the table. It is a tried and true system as long as the adults maintain control. DD usually had 350-500 at a dance. Only once was it too difficult and that was a prom and the space we had was to narrow and the kids all crowded the tables and there was too much going on in too small of a space. And then one adult will try to change the system mid-way with a "better idea" (and I am sure there are some but let's wait till next time). Anyway-this is the only way I have seen it done. Good luck! It is loads of work but so much fun to see the students and to be helpful. Most are very polite although some forget their "pleases and thank-you's" but a little nudge usually reminds them. Hope this was helpful! I thought this system was nuts the first time I worked coats-but it does work.