[SEMCO] Butterfly Counts July 19 and 26

[Alison Robb]

4TH OF JULY COUNTS ON CAPE COD    2014


TRURO. July 12, 2014, Saturday, (July 14, Monday, rain date) . 9:00  
am. Truro.
Tor Hansen, leader, 508-648-1515, Alison Robb, co-leader,  
508-564-4331, nature at cape.com
Please register ahead of time if possible.  But come if you can anyway.
Directions: North Truro. Rte 6, Highland Light exit. Go east on  
Highland Rd. Meet at the first parking lot for Highland Light.


FALMOUTH. July 19, Saturday, 2014, (Monday July 21, rain date.) 10:00  
am. Falmouth. Alison Robb leader. 508-564-4331. nature at cape.com.  Tor  
Hansen, co-leader. 508-648-1515. Please register ahead of time if  
possible.
Directions Crane WMA, Rte. 151, Falmouth. Turn north between the  
baseball field andwaht was  the Nickelodeon theater, across from  
Ranch Rd.  Go to the gate, park on the right.


BREWSTER. July 26, 2014, Saturday, (July 27, Sunday, rain date). 9:00  
am. Brewster for the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History.
Joe Dwelly, leader; Alison Robb, co-leader; Please register with  
Alison Robb, 508-564-4331 or nature at cape.com.  Joe Dwelly:  
508-398-5967;  jdwelly at gis.net
Directions: Take Exit 9B off Rte 6 and follow Rte 134 North to Rte  
6A, then turn east and follow 6A to The Museum, on the left at
869 Rte. 6A, Brewster.


BARNSTABLE. July 26, Saturday, 2014, 9:00 am. Barnstable, for the  
MassAudubon Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary.  Leader
Ian Ives.  Please register if possible. iives at audubon.org
Directions: From Rte. 6, Cape Cod, take exit 7 north toward Yarmouth  
Port, going one mile north on Willow Street, Go left 1 mile west on  
6A, and right on Bone Hill Rd. Go 1/3 mile north on Bone Hill Rd  
(until you can see the ocean) then take your next left to the Audubon  
Long Pasture headquarters.


All information at www.nature.my.cape.com    click on Calendar of  
Events.  If 2014 Schedule is not up,  the dates are one day earlier  
than 2013.  Crane is changed.



Annual Butterfly Count on Cape Cod
“4th of July Butterfly Count”

Since 1975, the North American Butterfly Association (NABA) has  
organized an annual butterfly count held in the United States, and  
expanded to include 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.  NABA’s count is a  
great example of citizen science. 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.

Since 1999 a NABA “Fourth of July Butterfly Count" has been organized  
on Cape Cod, held on four weekends during the month of July across  
the Cape.  The sites visited are the same sites on comparable dates  
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. Interesting observations from the Cape  
counts include: monarch numbers dwindling, representative of their  
declining numbers everywhere in eastern North America; Silver- 
bordered Fritillaries are becoming scarce in Evans Field in  
Provincetown due to flooding of that field, Appalachian Brown, which  
were abundant in the cranberry bogs there have disappeared.

Bog Copper has increased in numbers in the small bogs at Hatches  
Harbor, Provincelands; Cloudless Sulphur has visited the Cape from  
the south in recent years; and other species which have been  
increasing are those with southerly ranges, including Zabulon  
Skipper, Variegated Fritillary, Common Buckeye, and Fiery Skipper.  
Baltimore Checkerspot has increased in the mid- and lower Cape.
In 2012  and 2013 Giant Swallowtails visited the Cape and may be  
bredding here.

Knowledgeable people to assist with these Cape counts are needed.  
Beginners, those with less experience who want to experience  
butterfly counts, are also welcome. Contact Alison Robb to sign up.

PRESENTER:  Alison Robb, Nature’s Circle



Contact:             Alison Robb                  508-564-4331

                            Nature’s Circle                   
nature at cape.com

                            PO Box  
186                                    http://nature.my.cape.com
                            Woods Hole, MA 02543 
                                    
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