User:Forehand.jay
Vital statistics
[edit]I'm Jay Forehand, currently and undergraduate honors student at Virginia Commonwealth University studying Biology. I've lived in Virginia for 24 years (aka my whole life). I think the space program is the greatest human endeavor ever embarked upon, and will always remain so. Huge sci-fi nerd. I'd like to visit Japan.
Interests
[edit]U.S. Constitutional law - specifically as it pertains to privacy and firearms.
Experience
[edit]- Bachelors of Science candidate (2010) Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Research Intern, Insect Ecology Laboratory, Virginia Commonwealth University. Responsible for diet preparation and maintenance of Manduca sexta colony and associated parasitoid Cotesia congregata.
- Lead Technician "Butterflies LIVE!" Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Butterflies LIVE! is a 2400 sq ft exhibit space featuring between 15-30 species of lepidoptera at any one time totaling between 200-300 individual lepidopterans at any given time from all over the world. Responsible for documenting, housing, rearing both native and non-native lepidoptera.
Entomology
[edit]Lepidoptera
[edit]Many species common in the tropical butterfly industry today lack proper Wikipedia articles. Filling in these gaps is my main goal here.
My collection
[edit]Charaxes lasti, Danaus gilippus, Danaus plexippus, Idea leuconoe, Junonia almana, Protogoniomorpha ancardii, Vanessa atalanta
Species that need work done
[edit]Charaxes lasti, Hamadryas feronia, Idea leuconoe, Papilio dardanus, Protogoniomorpha anacardii
Must read list
[edit]After the Quake, Dance Dance Dance, Ender's Game, Kafka on the Shore, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle