Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)

Quips and Quotes

News and Notes
Activities at the Entomological Societies' Meeting
Summary of the Scientific committee meeting
EMAN National Meeting
MacMillan Coastal Biodiversity Workshop
Workshop on Biodiversity Monitoring

Project Update: Family Keys

Canadian Spider Diversity and Systematics

The Quiz Page

Selected Future Conferences

Quips and Quotes

List of Requests for Material or Information Required for Studies of the Canadian Fauna 1999

Cooperation Offered

List of Addresses

Index to Taxa

"Light minds are pleased with trifles”
(Latin proverb)

“If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it”
(Emerson)

“Cleverness is not wisdom”
(Euripides)

“Think much, speak little and write less” (Italian proverb)

No comment
“The poor weather combined with the fact that a number of noctuid species mainly appear as adults in even years, have kept most lepidopterologists in the warmth further south this season. Consequently the number of reports is relatively low . . .”
(A. Ohlsson and N. Ryrholm in Entomologisk Tidskrift 117: 64-64 (1996)).

The rearing of blow flies “is technically simple, but can be expensive, malodorous and wasteful of space”.
(R.A. Sherman and F.A. Wyle in Am. J. Trop. Med. Hygiene 54: 38-41 (1996))