Southern Lepidopterists society (SLS)

A group of twenty persons attending the charter meeting in Gainesville, Florida on November 18, 1978 voted and decided to become known as the Southern Lepidopterists, thus officially initiating the formation of the new organization. The reason for the Southern Lepidopterists' Society is to increment experimental information and open attention to the Lepidoptera of the southern (US) states: Florida, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Participation is interested in anybody with such interests. The Society holds an official meeting open to all individuals once per year. See the News area for declarations and data about the yearly meeting.The Southern Lepidopterists' News, which is distributed four times yearly, is the official bulletin of the Society.Southern Lepidopterists' News: The Southern Lepidopterists’ News is published four times annually. The subscription cost is included in the annual membership dues.:The SLS News society encourages submission of short articles. Anything important to you is liable to hold any importance with the rest of us! Observations on behaviour or life history, field trip reports and collecting experiences, etc. are all welcome.The Southern Lepidopterists’ Society’s Annual John Abbot Award: The Abbot Award is granted every year to a person who has made huge commitments to our comprehension of the Lepidoptera of the Southern locale of the U.S. These commitments can incorporate, however are not constrained to, examination, distribution, cultivating open mindfulness and different ventures. This individual is browsed a rundown of candidates by vote of the participation. The Abbot honour was made to perceive the endeavours of selected people, real donors to the knowledge of Lepidoptera fauna in the United States, with specific accentuation on the south, however not as a matter of course limited to the locale. The honour is named for John Abbot (1751-1840), one of the underlying pioneers of investigations of Lepidoptera of the south-eastern United States. Abbot was an early naturalist, whose artistic creations and recorded perceptions gave various portrayals of south-eastern species. He spent a critical bit of his life in Bulloch County, Georgia amid the mid nineteenth century, where he mentioned a considerable lot of his objective facts.