Dear Conch-ers, My husband and I just returned from Sanibel and found our first wenteltraps, as well as several other new shells. We enjoyed shelling there so much and I owe much of our enjoyment to information from conch-l. We are fairly new to conch-l and just simple shellers; as illustrated by our little wentletrap story. We purchased a Sanibel guidebook while there last May 2 where we first saw the lovely wentletrap. I just had to have that shell so we biked up to Lighthouse beach and searched early, late, and in between. Finally, on our last day I decided to break down and buy one at the shell shop near Rosie's grocery. When the proprieter reached behind the jewelry counter and showed me a cup of teeny miniatures, I knew why we couldn't find them. I bought a few and triumphantly showed them to my husband and he found one on his own in about two minutes! We found quite a lot more and went home to Port Huron, Michigan happy shellers. I had heard from this list about how wonderful Sanibel is and I fully agree. Even without the shells, the other wildlife is incredible, the people exceptionally friendly and helpful, and just generally beautiful. Rebecca >From: RITA GRANT <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: about those wentletraps - WANT TO IDENTIFY each one found on > SANIBEL >Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 13:06:33 -0700 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from [128.192.1.102] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailBEAC0D2500C74004320A80C001660F740; Wed, 15 May 2002 13:16:49 -0700 >Received: from listserv.cc.uga.edu (listserv.uga.edu) by mundane.cc.uga.edu >(LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]>; >Wed, 15 May 2002 16:16:36 -0400 >Received: from LISTSERV.UGA.EDU by LISTSERV.UGA.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP >release 1.8d) with spool id 9803949 for [log in to unmask]; >Wed, 15 May 2002 16:16:35 -0400 >Received: from web20514.mail.yahoo.com (web20514.mail.yahoo.com >[216.136.173.246]) by listserv.cc.uga.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP > id g4FK6Yh25703 for <[log in to unmask]>; Wed, 15 May 2002 >16:06:34 -0400 >Received: from [204.215.240.98] by web20514.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, >15 May 2002 13:06:33 PDT >From [log in to unmask] Wed, 15 May 2002 13:17:48 -0700 >Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]> > > >Vacationing with my family here on Sanibel. Found numerous wentletraps on >the beach. Having a great deal of difficulty differentiating AMONG them. >How DO we tell a lamellose wentletrap from a humphrey one? As a neophyte, >we have no trouble finding the wentletraps but we are having a very tough >time figuring out what is what. If the shell is cream colored and the ribs >are white, is that guaranteed to be a lamellose one or is there no sure way >of knowing? Even among the wentletraps that appear to be white, it is very >hard to see the differences. HELP. Thanks to one and all. > >rita grant - at the Sanibel library's public computer area > >[log in to unmask] > > > >--------------------------------- >Do You Yahoo!? >LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com