Subject: BUTTERFLY CENSUS: Neawanna Wetland 7/26/2000
Date: Jul 26 20:29:01 2000
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


Butterfly Census
Neawanna Transect
Seaside, Clatsop Co OREGON

26 July 2000 1205h to 1310hr
temp 67F; wind NW 10; 50%sun

Method: Follows the Butterfly Monitoring Scheme described in
Pollard and Yates (1993, Monitoring Butterflies for Ecology and
Conservation. Chapman Hall, London.). A 1.4km 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:

Veined (Margined) White 6
Walsingham's Ctenucha 7

Blue-eyed Darner 6
Aeshna sp. 2
Eight-spotted Skimmer 26
Variegated Meadowhawk 2
Cardinal Meadowhawk 5
unknown dragonfly 2
Tule Bluet 257
Pacific Forktail 13
Western Forktail 34


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

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