[SEMCO] CCMNH Brewster Butterfly Count

[The Gilligans]

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
in Brewster
Location for Brewster Butterfly Count
Saturday, July 25
(Rain date: Sunday, July 26)
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 16, 2009
Contact: Julie O'Neil 508-896-3867 or adminsupport at ccmnh.org
<mailto:adminsupprt at ccmnh.org> 

 
   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.
Please register with the leader, Alison Robb, 508-564-4331 or
nature at cape.com.    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.

 
   Directions:   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. 
 
   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.
 
   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. 
            
   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.
 

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