Subject: BUTTERFLY CENSUS: Coxcomb Hill 06/20/2000
Date: Jun 20 16:44:08 2000
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com
Butterfly Census
Coxcomb Hill Transect
Astoria, Clatsop Co OREGON
20 June 2000 1330h to 1430hr
temp 65F; wind WNW 10-15; sky clear
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:
Western Swallowtail 2
Veined White 1
C?nurgina [Drasteria] c?rulea 1
Paddle-tailed Darner 15
Notes: C?nurgina c?rulea is the small bluish day-moth that tries
to pass itself off as a small blue butterfly. It is, according
to Holland (1916, The Moth Book. Doubleday, NY.) one of the very
few blue moths known and is unique to the Pacific Coast.
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