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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>The </span></font></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Cape Cod</span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
</span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Museum</span></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> of Natural History<br>
in Brewster<br>
Location for Brewster Butterfly Count<br>
Saturday, July 25<br>
(Rain date: Sunday, July 26)<br>
<br>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: </span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>June 16,
2009</span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br>
Contact: Julie O’Neil 508-896-3867 or <a
href="mailto:adminsupprt@ccmnh.org">adminsupport@ccmnh.org</a></span></b></p>
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</span></font></b> The North American Butterfly Association
"Fourth of July Butterfly Count" will be held in Brewster at the Cape
Cod Museum of Natural History on Saturday, July 25, 2009, beginning at 9 am. Rain date: Sunday, July 26. <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>Please register with the leader, Alison Robb, 508-564-4331
or <a href="mailto:nature@cape.com">nature@cape.com</a>. </span></i></b>Participants
are asked to pay $3.00. Anyone who would like to join us by
trekking with the group or by counting in their own garden should call to sign
up. The count will run from 9 am to about 3 pm. <br>
<br>
<u>Directions</u>: Take Exit 9B off Rte 6 and follow
Rte 134 North to Rte 6A, then turn right and follow 6A to The Museum, on the
left at # 869 Rte. 6A, Brewster. <br>
<br>
Since 1975 the annual butterfly count has been held in the United
States and now in Canada and Mexico as well. Each count area is a
circle 15 miles in diameter and the count is a one-day census of all
butterflies observed within that circle. The count promotes interest in
butterflies, and provides results useful to scientists who are monitoring
butterfly populations and habitats. An official report is available in
the spring of the following year. Everyone is encouraged to participate
either as a member of the group that visits sites selected by the count leader
or as an observer in their own garden.<br>
<br>
This year we hope more volunteers will join us. The
number of butterflies counted has decreased each year since then. The
sites we will visit are the same sites we visited in past years, so that a
comparison can be made. There are many reasons for population changes;
weather, insecticide use, and habitat decrease or increase. <br>
<br>
Knowledgeable butterfliers are needed on the count, and others who
want to have the experience to get started are also welcome. We do
important work, and we also have a good time out among the wildflowers.
Do join us.<br>
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