Butterfly Census
Coxcomb Hill Transect
Astoria, Clatsop Co OREGON

05 Jul 2000 1215h to 1320hr
temp 63F; wind WNW 0-5; sky 50%sun

Method: Follows the Butterfly Monitoring Scheme described in
Pollard and Yates (1993, Monitoring Butterflies for Ecology and
Conservation. Chapman Hall, London.). A 2.2km transect was
divided into 10 sections. All butterflies, odonata and selected
day-moth species seen within 5m of the transect line are counted
and recorded. The aggregate count follows:

W. Tiger Swallowtail 7
Veined White 7

C?nurgina [Drasteria] c?rulea 1
Ctenucha Walsinghami 1

Aeshna sp. 1
Blue-eyed Darner 5
Eight-spotted Skimmer 1
Varigated Meadowhawk 3

Notes: Weather has been unseasonably cool and wet over the
last week. This census was postponed (it is scheduled for
Tuesdays) because of rain. The first WALSINGHAM'S CTENUCHA of
the season was spotted on the grassy slope leading up to
Coxcomb Hill. These are the black and red day-moths that
become abundant in the area in late summer.
http://columbia-pacific.interrain.org/ahscience/photo_archive/moth003.jpg

http://columbia-pacific.interrain.org/ahscience/neawanna/insect.html

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you must also be right.
---Robert Park
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