Butterfly Census
Nicolai Mt Survey Route
Clatsop Co OREGON

19 July 2000 1220h to 1410hr
temp 65F; wind WNW 0-5; sunny

Method: Follows the Butterfly Monitoring Scheme described in
Pollard and Yates (1993, Monitoring Butterflies for Ecology and
Conservation. Chapman Hall, London.). Eight 150m transects were
walked along the survey route. All butterflies, odonata and
selected day-moth species seen within 5m of the transect line
are counted and recorded. The aggregate count follows:

Clodius Parnassian 17
Pale Swallowtail 2
Veined White 6
Hydapse Fritillary 6
Western Meadow Fritillary 15
California Tortoiseshell 1
Lorquin's Admiral 1

Rheumaptera hastata 6

Blue-eyed Darner 10
Paddle-tailed Darner 1
Aeshna sp. 2
Sympetrum sp 1

NOTES: I managed to catch an intact specimen of the very common
day moth I've been noting as "spot" on my transect counts. It is
the Spear-marked Black Moth (_Rheumaptera hastata_) and can be seen at
http://willow.ncfes.umn.edu/fidl-spear/fidl-spear.htm
I also heard a HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER at station 2.

http://columbia-pacific.interrain.org/ahscience/neawanna/insect01.html

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Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
celata at pacifier.com by an unkind establishment,
you must also be right.
---Robert Park
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