tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7308408103281688162024-03-19T01:05:52.695-07:00GTM Research Reserve Butterfly Monitoring BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-730840810328168816.post-65821645380574465902016-09-10T13:59:00.014-07:002016-09-10T14:48:50.897-07:00June 2016 Butterfly Monitoring and the Annual 4th of July Butterfly Count<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">At the start of our morning butterfly monitoring expedition </span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">on <b>June 27 </b>we encountered a <b>Great </b></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Blue Heron </b></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>(Ardea hernias)</i><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">entangled in fishing line. Volunteers Christopher Fox and Mike Pogue were able to cut the hook and line, and release the bird at the edge of the marsh. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">I</span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">n the afternoon our group participated in the 42nd Annual <b>North American Butterfly Association</b> <b>4th of July Butterfly Count</b>. </span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">NABA, consisting of people in Canada, United States and Mexico interested in butterflies, conducts long-term monitoring of butterfly populations.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Using electric vehicles we headed out into the </span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Wildlife Management Area.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #1a2329; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Butterflies observed included the <b>Palamedes Swallowtail</b><i> (Papilio palmedes), </i></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><b>Black Swallowtail (</b></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><i>Papilio polyxenes),</i></span><span style="color: #1a2329; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> <b>Gulf Fritillary</b> (<i>Agraulis vanillae</i>) </span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Ocola skipper</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><i style="color: #1a222a; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">(Panoquina ocola) </i><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Fiery Skipper </b><i>(Hylephila phyleus) </i></span></span><b style="color: #101417; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Dainty Sulphur</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #101417; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> (</span><i style="color: #101417; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Nathalis iole</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #101417; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">) </span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><b>Zarucco Duskywing</b> (</span></span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><i>Erynnis zarucco) </i></span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Salt Marsh Skipper (</b><i style="color: #1a222a; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Panoquina panoquin</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">), and the </span><b style="color: #1a2329; font-family: 'helvetica neue'; font-size: 15px;">Great Southern White</b><span style="color: #1a2329; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 15px;"> (</span><i style="color: #1a2329; font-family: 'helvetica neue'; font-size: 15px;">Ascia monuste</i><span style="color: #1a2329; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 15px;">) and hundreds of </span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Ceraunus Blue</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> (</span><i style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Hemiargus ceraunus</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">)</span><span style="color: #1a2329; font-family: 'helvetica neue'; font-size: 15px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The start of our </span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">monthly butterfly monitoring expedition </span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">on <b>May 23 </b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #1a222a;">in </span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Transect A</span></b><span style="color: #1a222a;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">was slightly delayed, due to a rare sighting of manatees in the Guana River estuary! We then observed a total of 79 butterflies including a <b>Red-banded Hairstreak </b><i>(</i><i>Calycopis cecrops)</i>, a <b>Checkered White</b> male (<i>Pontia protodice</i>), a mating pair of <b>Horace's Duskywing</b> butterflies, a <b>Barred Sulphur </b><i>(</i></span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Eurema </i></span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>daira)</i><b>,</b></span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> and a </span><b style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Pipevine Swallowtail (</b></span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Battus philenor)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #1a222a;">. The volunteers on </span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Transects B, C and D</span> </b><span style="color: #1a222a;">counted a total of 27 butterflies including the <b>Carolina Satyr </b><i>(</i></span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Hermeuptychia sosybius)</i></span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, <b>Dun Skipper </b><i>(</i></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Euphyes vestries)</i></span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, </span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">a <b>Palamedes Swallowtail</b><i> (</i></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Papilio palmedes)</span></i><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">and a <b>Black Swallowtail (</b></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Papilio polyxenes)</i><b>, </b></span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">and the usual sightings of the <b>Great Southern White</b> (</span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Ascia monuste</i>) and <b>Gulf Fritillary</b> (<i>Agraulis vanillae</i>)</span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b>On May 16, 2016,</b> a group from our GTM Research Reserve Butterfly Monitoring team met at the Matanzas Inlet beach parking lot for the semi-annual <b>Fort Matanzas Butterfly Count.</b> We were joined by </span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Kurt Foote, Ellen NcElafish</span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">and Carmen Carrion from the Fort Matanzas National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) </span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">and José Núñez from the Whitney Laboratory for Marine BioScience.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The walk covered <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Transect </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-weight: bold;">A/B</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(Beach Parking Lot/Boardwalk and ICW Parking Lot/Boardwalk),<span style="color: #0b5394; font-weight: bold;"> Transect </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b style="color: #0b5394;">C </b>(Hammock Trails)<b style="color: #0b5394;"> and Transect D </b>(Salt Marsh).<b style="color: #0b5394;"> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #1a222a;">In </span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Transect A/B</span></b><span style="color: #1a222a;"> we observed three </span></span></span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Giant Swallowtail</b><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> (<i>Papilio cresphontes</i>), twenty-four </span></span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Little Yellow</b><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span><i style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">(</i><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Eurema lisa</i>)</span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, five </span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Cloudless </b><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Sulphur </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">(</span><i style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Phoebis sennae</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">),</span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> four </span></span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Phaon Crescent </b><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">(</span></span><i style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Phyciodes phaon</i><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">) thirty-three </span></span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Gulf </b><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Fritillary</b> </span></span><i><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">(Agraulis zarucco)</span></span></i><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, ten </span></span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Great Southern White </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #101417; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">(</span><i style="color: #101417; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ascia monuste</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #101417; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">), one</span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> <b>Zarucco Duskywing</b> (</span></span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><i>Erynnis zarucco</i>),</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #101417; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> one </span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Ceraunus Blue</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> (</span><i style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Hemiargus ceraunus</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">) and one</span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> <b>Zebra Longwing</b> (</span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Heliconius charithonia</i>)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #101417; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">. </span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">One </span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Little Yellow</b><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> was seen laying eggs on a Partridge Pea plant, and a </span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Gulf Fritillary</b><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> was laying eggs on a Passionflower Vine. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #101417; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">In </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">Transects C and D </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">twenty-two</span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Great Southern Whites </b><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">were encountered as well as </span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; 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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Transect A</span></b>, along the Guana River / Guana Lake past the dam, the rarely seen <b>Black Swallowtail </b>butterfly (<i>Papilio polyxenes</i>) was among them, as well as a <b>Queen </b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>(Danaus gilippus),</i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a <b>Dainty Sulphur, </b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>(Nathalis iole)</i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b>Cloudless </b><b style="color: #1a222a; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Sulphurs </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">(</span><i style="color: #1a222a; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Phoebis sennae</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">),</span> <b>Phaon Crescents</b> (<i>Phyciodes phaon</i>) nectaring on Hop-clover <i>(Trifolium Campestre),</i> a <b>Common Buckeye</b> <i>(Junonia coenia)</i>, numerous <b>Great Southern Whites </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #101417; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">(</span><i style="color: #101417; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ascia monuste</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #101417; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">), </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">many of the latter species flying in frantic circles upward to the tree tops,traveling in groups of three! The </span><b style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Salt Marsh Skipper</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">(</b><i style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Panoquina panoquin</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">), </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with its prominent white streak on the hind wing, was also present along with </span><b style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Ceraunus Blue</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> (</span><i style="color: #1a222a; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Hemiargus ceraunus</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">) with its single spot on the hind wing. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the Uplands transects </span><b style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">(Transects B, C, and D)</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Great Southern Whites </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">were also encountered as well as the annual spring visitor </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Viola’s Wood Satyr</b> <i>(Megisto cymbals). </i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Great Southern Whites use Saltwort<i> (Batis maritime) </i>as a host plant for their caterpillars; this plant is abundant within the GTM Research Reserve habitats, which could account for the high numbers of this species. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We rarely see caterpillars during our Butterfly monitoring excursions, but on this day we encountered a <b>Black Swallowtail caterpillar </b>on a sprig of Water Dropwort, a plant in the carrot family. When tickled by a human finger, this little caterpillar raised its antennae and emitted a repellant odor, which we all had a chance to sniff - strange and unique, not pleasant!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Zebra Swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Variegated Fritillary (<i>Euptoieta claudia</i>)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><b style="color: #0b5394;">On March 21, 2016 we were treated to morning and afternoon presentations by </b></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>entomologist </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><b style="color: #0b5394;">Mike Pogue, one of our </b></span><b style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">volunteer butterfly monitoring team members. </b><b style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike reviewed butterfly physiology and ecology, highlighting details and numbers of our diverse population of </b><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>butterflies</b></span></span><b style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> at GTM NERR.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Mike had supplied verified data for a special section on <span style="color: #274e13;">Butterflies at GTM NERR</span> to the <span style="color: #274e13;">inaturalist.org</span> website. See </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.inaturalist.org/guides/2511">www.inaturalist.org/guides/2511</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Note: </b>Other animal classifications are also represented on the </i><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;">inaturalist.org</span><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i><i>site such as </i><i style="font-weight: bold;">Birds, Reptiles, Arthropods and Plankton at GTM NERR:</i></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-730840810328168816.post-39005165322618737372013-11-10T03:53:00.002-08:002013-11-20T07:58:02.329-08:00October Butterfly Monitoring<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our two groups headed out on October 18, 2013. As usual, one group rides in an ATV to reach the transects B, C and D along the trails. The other group surveys the Transect A on foot (from the Environmental Education Center past the dam to the trailhead). </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we walked along the marsh, we observed a truck towing an ATV and thought - could that be our group's vehicle, and are they stranded in the hammock somewhere? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Transect A, we counted a total of 91 butterflies including a <b>White Peacock</b> (<i>Anartia jatrophae)</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, eleven <b>Common Buckeyes</b> (</span><i>Junonia coenia</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">), four <b>Painted Ladies</b>, (</span><i>Vanessa cardui</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) all in the family of Brush foots (</span><i>Nymphalidae)</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. We counted a variety of Skippers: <b>Salt Marsh skipper</b>, <b>Long-tailed skipper</b> and several smaller skippers that we had to document as “unknown”. It was a breezy day, they were not landing for more than a few seconds at a time, and we were not able to catch up with them! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All skippers are Family </span><i>Hesperiidae</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We took time to identify the Painted Ladies in comparison to the American Lady and the Red Admiral.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also in transect A we observed an <b>Orange Sulphur</b> (<i>Colias eurytheme</i>) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the family <i>Pieridae</i>. Although we have seen these in past years, this species has not previously been discussed in this blog. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The subfamily for Sulphurs is </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coliadinae</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their wing span is 1 3/8 - 2 3/4 inches. The male upperside is yellow with orange overlay, yellow veins, wide black border, and a dark black cell spot. The female is yellow or white with an irregular black border surrounding light spots. There is a silver spot with 2 concentric dark rings, and a spot above it on the underside hindwing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adults nectar from many kinds of flowers including dandelion, milkweeds, goldenrods, and asters.
Caterpillar hosts are plants in the pea family (<i>Fabaceae</i>) including alfalfa (<i>Medicago sativa</i>), white clover (<i>Trifolium repens</i>), and white sweet clover (<i>Melilotus alba</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wing scales located on the dorsal wing surfaces in males contain ridges with lamellae that produce iridescent ultraviolet reflectance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Females preferentially mate with males whose wings reflect ultraviolet light. Studies have suggested that this trait was the strongest and most informative predictor of male courtship success. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In August, we noted that a <b>Ceraunus Blue</b> (<i>Hemiargus ceraunus</i>, <i>Lycaenidae</i> family) was identified in comparison to Cassius Blue (<i>Leptotes cassius</i>) of the same family: the Ceraunus has a single eyespot on the submarginal hind wing, whereas the Cassius has two spots. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we spotted another Ceraunus and were reminded that sometimes the single spot identification is not reliable (wings may be worn) The “Zebra stripes” on the Cassuis’ wings is a better indicator.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we headed back toward the Environmental Education Center we saw our Trail Transect group walking back along the dirt road. Yes that was their ATV that was being towed earlier. Thanks to all volunteers but especially to those who stayed to return to the trails to complete the survey in the afternoon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">After a rainy, hurricane-free summer, there were a variety of butterfly species observed on September 18, 2013. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In <b>Transect A </b> (from the Environmental Education Center to the trailhead), 29 <b>Salt Marsh skippers</b> and 18 <b>Long-tailed skippers</b> were observed, as well as other less frequently seen skippers: <b>Southern Broken-Dash</b> (1), Fiery (4), <b>Ocola</b> (4), <b>Sachem</b> (4), and <b>Delaware</b> (6). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Zarucco</b> and <b>Southern Skipperling</b> were seen in <b>Transects C and B</b>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All skippers are </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Family <i>Hesperiidae. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The <b>Southern Broken-Dash</b> (<i>Wallengrenia otho</i>) can be identified by the following criteria: The u</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pperside of male is brown with a few orange or red-oranges patches and a two-part black stigma (the "broken dash"). The female upperside is dark brown with pale orange spots. The underside of the hindwing in both sexes is orange or red-orange and has a band of pale spots. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Males perch on vegetation within 2 feet of the ground to watch for females, usually in the early morning. Females lay eggs singly on or near the host plants, which include </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paspalum and St. Augustine grass (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stenotaphrum secundatum)</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caterpillars live in nests of silk-tied leaves; when they come out to eat they carry a piece of leaf over themselves for protection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <b>Delaware skipper</b> (<i>Anatrytone logan) </i>has wings that are bright yellow-orange with a wing span of 1 - 1 3/4 inches</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The upperside has black borders and black veins near the margins; the forewing has a black bar at the end of the cell. Females have wider borders and darker markings than males. The underside has no markings but may have darker orange veins. Adults nectar from pink and white flowers including swamp and common milkweeds, marsh fleabane, sweet pepperbush, buttonbush, thistles, and pickerelweed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their habitat requires moist areas which may include marshes, prairies, fields, roadsides, suburban yards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The upperside of the male <b>Sachem
</b>(<i>Atalopedes campestris</i>) is yellow-orange with a wide brown border and a large squarish black stigma. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The female upperside varies from yellow-brown to very dark brown, but always has a square transparent white spot at the end of the forewing cell. The underside of the female hindwing is brown with nearly square cream or white spots. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their wing span is 1 1/2 inches. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Females lay single eggs on dry grass blades in the afternoon. Caterpillars feed on leaves and live at the base of grasses in shelters of rolled or tied leaves. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caterpillar hosts are grasses including Bermuda grass (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cynodon dactylon</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) and St. Augustine grass (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stenotaphrum secundatum)</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adults nectar from flowers including milkweeds, buttonbush, dogbane, peppermint, red clover, tickseed sunflower, thistles, marigold, and asters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four of those attractive <b>White Peacock</b> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anartia jatrophae</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) butterflies </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the family <i>Nymphalidae</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">were also seen in Transect A.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This butterfly is pictured on the cover of "Butterflies Through Binoculars" by Jeffrey Glassberg, Marc Minno and John Calhoun.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The White Peacock has a wingspan of up to 2.75 inches. The caterpillar of the white peacock butterfly eats water hyssop. Adults like Plumbago flower nectar. Their favorite habitat is is wide open land. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the afternoon we hosted 16 volunteers and two staff members from the <b>Florida Museum of Natural History Butterfly Rainforest / University of Florida. </b> They enjoyed a powerpoint presentation by Rick Edwards of his own photographs of butterflies observed at the GTM NERR. All of these photos were taken during our monthly FBMN surveys. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The visitors were also treated to a walk of our Transect A along the Guana River estuary. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kudos to our volunteers who helped to provide this experience on a hot September afternoon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">After a few days of scattered heavy rain and winds, on August 20 we were fortunate to see a variety of butterfly species, although few in number of each species were observed (a total of only 40 butterflies of eighteen different species). We welcomed a new member of the group Liz Rourke, and we thank her for providing the photos below of skippers and a little blue seen in Transect A. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Photographing butterflies requires patience but it is certainly rewarding!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On July 22 under clear skies and a light breeze there were a total of 144 butterflies counted, sixteen different species were observed in our transects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On June 27 we completed our monthly morning surveys, and then after a short lunch break we headed out into the Wildlife Management Area for the annual 4th of July Butterfly survey. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Southern Skipperling </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Copaeodes minima) </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was seen in significant numbers on the trails. Our smallest North American skipper (in the </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hesperiidae </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">family), this butterfly has a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bright orange </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">elongated </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">forewing</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> with a narrow white ray through the center.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">It was an overcast relatively calm morning and a comfortable 76 degrees, after seeing some heavy rains the previous week. Along the freshwater marsh, there were blooms everywhere. Most prolific were the Spiderwort (Tradescantia) with purple flowers, the star rush with white flowers (Rhynchospora colorata) (a.k.a white-top sedge) and the fogfruit Phyla nodiflora (alternately called frogfruit), which was under water but still blooming!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">We saw one very fresh male, opening and closing his wings as he rested on a leaf. There was a Warbler on a branch nearby, and we hoped the bird would stay away from this beautiful butterfly. The upper side of the Queen butterfly's wings are rich mahogany with black borders enclosing small white spots, lacking black veins. The forewing has numerous small, white spots near the apex. The underside of the hindwing has black veins; black borders of both wings have 2 rows of white spots. The upper side of the male hindwing has a black scale patch. We observed these two black patches on this male. </span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Their wingspan is 2 5/8 - 3 7/8 inches. Larval host plants are milkweeds and milkweed vines. Adults nectar from flowers including milkweeds, fogfruit, and shepherd's needle.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The <b>Great Southern White</b> (<i>Ascia monuste</i>) of the <i>Pieridae</i> family was observed in transects A and C. 27 were counted in transect A, but only one, near the Intracoastal waterway, in transect C. This butterfly has distinctive turquoise antennae clubs. Spanish needle is a favorite nectar plant.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The male is white with a black forewing apex. The female is dirty white to gray with a black forewing apex and a black forewing cell spot. The ventral hindwing is white-yellow in males to gray in females. Mature larvae are yellow with gray longitudinal stripes and covered in small black spots. Habitat includes salt marshes and beaches. Larval host plants include Virginia pepper grass (<i>Lepidium virginicum</i>), saltwort (<i>Batis maritima</i>), and sea rocket (<i>Cakile lanceolata</i>). </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">At the intracoastal, the GTM NERR <b>Salt Marsh Nursery</b> program is in progress. This program supplements the <b>Oyster Reef Restoration</b> project. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">We saw several sections of Oyster reef, installed by our dedicated GTM NERR volunteers. </span></span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">For more information about this project,</span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> visit <a href="http://www.gtmnerr.org/Oyster-Reef-Restoration-Project.php">http://www.gtmnerr.org/Oyster-Reef-Restoration-Project.php</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">An interesting discussion took place about the <b>Mourning Cloak</b> (<i>Nymphalis antiopa)</i> butterfly of the <i>Nymphalidae</i> family: This butterfly was seen last year was but recorded as an unknown. From Rick’s photo shown to Jaret Daniels (who presented the April Butterfly Monitoring lecture), this unknown was positively identified as a Mourning Cloak, a species that has never before been recorded at GTM NERR during our six years of reporting to the <b>Florida Butterfly Monitoring Network.</b> It is seen rarely in the Gulf States and peninsular Florida. Adults live 10-11 months and may be our longest lived butterfly. Mourning Cloaks prefer tree sap, especially that of oaks. They walk down the trunk to the sap and feed head downward. They will also feed on rotting fruit, and only occasionally on flower nectar.
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<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">One <b>Ceraunus Blue</b> (<i>Hemiargus ceraunus</i>) of the <i>Lycaenidae</i> family one <b>Common Buckeye</b> (<i>Junonia coenia</i>) of the <i>Nymphalidae</i> family and four <b>Dainty Sulphurs</b> (<i>Nathalis iole</i>) of the <i>Pieridae</i> family were seen in transect A, the Dam transect. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">A single <b>Viceroy</b> <i>(Limenitis archippus</i>) of the <i>Nymphalidae</i> family was also seen in transect A. With wingspans from 2.5-3.0", their wings are orange to mahogany with black-outlined veins and black borders enclosing small white spots. The dorsal hindwing with prominent black line through the center. The ventral hindwing is paler orange with more prominent white spots in the black border. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Their habitat includes swamps, pond margins, stream corridors, and wet roadside ditches with willows. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Their larval host plants are willows including Carolina willow (</span><i style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Salix caroliniana</i><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">) and weeping willow (</span><i style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Salix babylonica</i><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">The conditions were damp to wet but mostly clear and calm and 69 degrees when we set out at 9:30 A.M on this spring day. In <b>Transect A</b> (the Dam transect), we counted nine <b>Phaon Crescents</b> (<i>Phyciodes phaon, Nymphalidae</i> family), </span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">three </span><b style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">Dainty Sulphurs</b><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;"> (</span><i style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">Nathalis iole</i><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">), and</span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">three <b>Palamedes Swallowtails </b>(<i>Papilio palamedes, </i></span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>Papilionidae </i>family</span></span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">), an equal number of Palamedes in <b>Transect</b> <b>B</b> (the freshwater marsh trail) and twelve Palamedes in <b>Transect D</b> (perhaps because the red bay in this transect appear healthier than last year at this time). </span><b style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">Great Southern Whites </b><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">(</span><i style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">Ascia monuste, </i><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>Pieridae </i>family</span></span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">) were observed in three transects: fifteen in <b>Transect A,</b> eight in <b>Transect C</b> (the <i>Salicornia</i> transect) and two in <b>Transect D </b>(the upland red bay transect<b>)</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">We spotted one <b>Monarch</b> (<i>Danaus plexippus</i>, </span><i style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">Nymphalidae </i><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">family) and </span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">ten </span><b style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">Cloudless Sulphurs </b><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">(</span><i style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">Phoebis sennae, </i><i style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">Pieridae </i><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">family</span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">) in <b>Transect A</b>,</span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">A single <b>Viceroy</b> (<i>Limenitis archippus, </i></span><i style="color: #101417; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">Nymphalidae</i><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"> family</span><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">) was seen in</span><b style="color: #101417; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Transect C. </b><span style="color: #101417; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">The <b>Viola’s Wood Satyr</b> (</span><i style="color: #101417; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">Megisto cymela, </i><i style="color: #101417; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">Nymphalidae</i><span style="color: #101417; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"> family</span><span style="color: #101417; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">) was present again this month - fourteen </span><span style="color: #101417; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">in <b>Transect D</b> and one in <b>Transect C.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We are always on the lookout for other wildlife when we search for butterflies; a Six-lined Racerunner lizard (</span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Cnemidophorus sexlineatus</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">) was observed. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We steered clear of the Dusky Pygmy rattlesnake, (</span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Sistrurus miliarius barbouri</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">) which can be found throughout Florida, This species usually lives near water sources like swamps, marshes and creeks, although it can also be found in forested areas and often lives in gopher tortoise burrows. Adults measure only 15 to 22 inches and the record length is only 31.5 inches. Other common names for the pygmy rattlesnake are “pygmy rattler” and “ground rattler.” Their color is light gray to dark gray with irregular black blotches. There is also a series of reddish brown to orange blotches running down the back that may be more distinct near the head. On some specimens, these spots may be very muted. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The pupil is vertical (catlike) and there is a deep facial pit between the nostril and the eye.</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This snake is a pit viper and although the pygmy’s bite is typically not fatal, it has a predominantly hemotoxic venom that can be extremely painful.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To see the data reporting details, check out the condensed version of our census data on the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah2o-tLbeDfldFVKLWttZm5xMUljRzdONDg0eGFWcFE#gid=0" target="_blank">Volunteer Project Homepage</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Following our expedition, we were treated to a presentation in the GTM NERR Environmental Education Center Auditorium on Florida Butterflies, with Dr. Jaret Daniels, assistant professor of entomology at the University of Florida and assistant curator of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera Biodiversity. Some fascinating facts in the presentation were the relationship of Florida carpenter ants (<i>Camponotus floridanus</i>) to the <b>Miami Blue </b>butterfly<b> </b>(<i>Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri) </i>and the salt tolerance of the <b>Eastern Pygmy Blue</b> butterfly (<i>Brephidium pseudofea</i>). <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Miami Blue butterflies have larval associations with the Florida carpenter ant. Population studies confirm that Miami Blue larvae are tended by these ants in a mutualistic symbiosis. Ants protect the larvae from natural enemies in return for sugar-rich secretions that the larvae produce to attract and retain their ant guards. In Dr. Daniels’ experiments, Miami Blue larvae raised with Florida Carpenter ants were significantly more likely to pupate in the ant harborage. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The <a href="http://www.myfwc.com/"><span style="color: #011686; letter-spacing: 0px;">Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission</span></a> added the Miami Blue to the state’s <a href="http://myfwc.com/imperiledspecies/pdf/Endangered-Threatened-Special-Concern-2004.pdf"><span style="color: #011686; letter-spacing: 0px;">endangered species list</span></a> in November 2003 providing the impetus for the start of an aggressive conservation and recovery effort. Researchers from the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the University of Florida have successfully reared the Miami blue in captivity. The captive colony has produced more than 22,000 individuals with wild reintroductions into the Everglades and Biscayne National Parks. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We aren’t likely to see the Miami Blue in northeast Florida, but we do see the Eastern Pygmy blue, our smallest butterfly, usually during the hot summer. Their larvae are able to survive even when completely submerged under the estuarine tides, on their glasswort (<i>salicornia europaea)</i> intertidal salt marsh host plant, which is often under brackish water. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Dr Daniels’ presentation highlighted the importance of our work and our reporting of data to the Florida Butterfly Monitoring Network. Butterfly census data can be related to scientific studies of climate change, invasive species, and other environmental concerns. Dr. Daniels praised the dedicated work of our volunteers and the longevity of our involvement in this project. The Florida Butterfly Monitoring Network (FBMN) is a statewide citizen scientist program that trains public volunteers and directly engages university scientists, zoological institution staff members, and conservation land managers in field-based conservation and education targeting butterflies. Established in 2003 by the </span><a href="http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies/" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #011686; letter-spacing: 0px;">McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity</span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> at the University of Florida in cooperation with Disney's Animal Programs, the </span><a href="http://www.aza.org/" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #011686; letter-spacing: 0px;">Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)</span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> and the </span><a href="http://www.butterflyrecovery.org/" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #011686; letter-spacing: 0px;">Butterfly Conservation Initiative (BFCI)</span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">, the FBMN provides a collaborative vehicle to help protect Florida’s dwindling butterfly populations.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-730840810328168816.post-87441101305059861052013-03-28T15:52:00.002-07:002013-03-29T10:23:09.348-07:00March 18, 2013 Butterfly Monitoring<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Just a few days before the arrival of Spring, our GTM NERR Butterfly Monitoring group headed out under cloudy skies in search of the elusive <i>Lepidoptera</i>. The name <i>Lepidoptera</i>, derived from the Greek words "<i>lepido</i>" for scale and "<i>ptera</i>" for wings, refers to the flattened scales that cover the body and wings of most adult butterflies. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;">The conditions were damp to wet In <b>Transect A</b> (the Dam transect), and w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">e didn't see many butterflies until the sun came out after 11:00 A.M., but we did spot two <b>Phaon Crescents</b> (<i>Phyciodes phaon, Nymphalidae</i> family) resting in the dry grasses, and a <b>Ceraunus Blue </b>(<i>Hemiargus ceraunus</i>, <i>Lycaenidae</i> family). Thistle was blooming among the dry grass. The dam was open and the tide was low, with oysters exposed, so we did see a variety of birds including a white pelican, tricolored heron, a dowitcher, a dunlin, savannah sparrow near the cedar trees, a pied-billed grebe, two lesser scaups on the lake (</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;">and a clapper rail in the marsh grass</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">, a secretive marsh bird, heard but not seen.) After a little sunshine, a <b>Cloudless Sulphur </b>(<i>Phoebis sennae</i>)<b> </b>, <b>Salt Marsh Skipper (</b><i>Panoquina panoquin</i>), two <b>Great Southern Whites </b>(<i>Ascia monuste</i>)<i> </i>and two </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Dainty Sulphur</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><i>Nathalis iole</i>) butterflies were observed. The Dainty Sulphur is the smallest butterfly of the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;"><i>Pieridae</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px;"> family, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">and has elongated forewings</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">.
Their w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">ing span is 3/4 - 1 1/4 inches. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">The upper side of the wings is yellow with the tip of the fore wing being black. Black bars extend along the trailing edge of the fore wing and the leading edge of the hind wing. The underside of the wings varies depending on the season. Summer individuals have yellowish hind wings whereas winter individuals have greenish-gray hind wings. Both forms have black spots near the forewing margin and have a yellowish-orange patch near the base of the fore wing.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">Males patrol a few inches above the ground in low areas for females. Females lay eggs singly on leaves of host plant seedlings. Adults rest with wings closed and held perpendicular to the sun's rays to warm themselves. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">The caterpillar hosts include low-growing plants in the aster family (<i>Asteraceae)</i>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">Adults nectar at asters, wild marigold, rabbitbrush, and others.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">By comparison, the Little Yellow (<i>Eurema lisa)</i>, observed at GTM NERR in February, is larger than the Dainty Sulphur, lacks the dorsal fore wing and hind wing black bars, and on the underside of the fore wing lacks the black spots and the yellowish-orange patch.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">The trail transect volunteers counted ten <b>Palamedes Swallowtails (</b><i>Papilio palamedes</i>), ten <b>Cloudless Sulphurs</b>, and eight <b>Little Wood Satyrs </b>(<i>Megisto cymela</i>) (a.k.a Viola's Wood Satyr.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">Our next expedition will be on Monday, April 15 at 9:30 A.M. and will be followed by a presentation on Florida Butterflies with Dr. Jaret Daniels, assistant professor of entomology at the University of Florida and assistant curator of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera Biodiversity. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-730840810328168816.post-86607352043159538182013-03-08T13:41:00.002-08:002013-03-29T10:09:39.553-07:00Winter Butterfly Monitoring: December 2012 to February 2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">It was a fairly warm winter at GTM NERR, and during our December, January and February outings we counted several of our year-round butterflies including <b>Phaon Crescents, Cloudless Sulphurs </b>and<b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><b>Common Buckeyes.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><b>December</b> <b>15, 2012:</b> In Transect A (the Dam transect), one <b>Little Yellow</b>, a.k.a.<b> Little Sulphur</b> (<i>Eurema lisa</i>), of the <i>Pieridae</i> family, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">was observed.
The wingspan is between 32 and 44 mm. The dorsal view of the forewing has a broad dark margin and the hindwing's ventral view has two basal black spots. This butterfly is rarely seen at GTM NERR. Adults nectar from flowers in the aster family (<i>Asteraceae</i>) including goldenrods and asters. Larval hosts plants include Partridge pea (<i>Cassia fasciculata</i>) and wild sensitive plant (<i>C. nicitans</i>) in the pea family (<i>Fabaceae</i>).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">Another single butterfly, this one observed in Transect B (the freshwater marsh transect) was the the <b>Checkered White</b> (<i>Pontia protodice) </i>in the family <i>Pieridae</i>. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">The upper side of the wings are white and marked with black and gray, more so on the female. The underside of the hindwings are marked with extensive yellow-brown veins. The wingspan is 1.25-1.75 inches. Its host plants include broccoli brussel sprouts and cabbage.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">A single <b>Queen</b> Butterfly (<i>Danaus gilippus</i>) of the <i>Nymphalidae</i> family was seen in Transect A. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">The upper side of the wings is chestnut brown; black borders of the forewings have 2 rows of white spots; white spots are scattered at the forewing apex.The underside of the hindwing has black veins; black borders of both wings have 2 rows of white spots. The upper side of the male hindwing has a black scale patch. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">Their wingspan is 2 5/8 - 3 7/8 inches. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">To find females, males patrol all day. Females lay eggs singly on leaves, stems, and flower buds, which the caterpillars eat. Adults roost communally.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">Larval host plants are milkweeds and milkweed vines. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">Adults nectar from flowers including milkweeds, fogfruit, and shepherd's needle.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">Some of the milkweeds contain cardiac glycosides which are stored in the bodies of both the caterpillar and adult. These poisons are distasteful and emetic to birds and other vertebrate predators. After tasting a Queen, a predator might associate the bright warning colors of the adult or caterpillar with an unpleasant meal, and avoid Queens in the future.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">A single <b>Ocola skipper</b> <i>(Panoquina ocola)</i> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><i>Hesperiidae </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">family </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">was also seen. This butterfly has forewings projecting far beyond the hindwings when the butterfly is at rest. The upperside of their wings is dark brown; the underside of the hindwing is brown with no markings; the female has a blue-purple iridescent sheen. Adults nectar from lantana, spanish needle, milkweed, and buttonbush.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><b>January 28, 2013</b> was a great day for butterfly monitoring. We saw <b>Great Southern White</b> (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><i>Ascia monuste) </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><i>Pieridae</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">family </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><i>- </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">7 in transect A and 11 in transect B; </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">one <b>Gulf Fritillary</b> (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><i>Agraulis vanillae)</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"> of the <i>Nymphalidae </i>family, and also in transect A the elusive <b>Red </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><b>Admiral</b> (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><i>Vanessa atalanta)</i> of the <i>Nymphalidae</i> family. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">The upper side of the Red Admiral is black with white spots near the apex; forewing with red median band, hindwing with red marginal band. The winter form is smaller and duller, summer form larger and brighter with an interrupted forewing band.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">Their wing span is 1 3/4 - 3 inches. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">The Red Admiral has a very erratic, rapid flight. Males perch, on ridgetops if available, in the afternoon to wait for females, who lay eggs singly on the tops of host plant leaves. Young caterpillars eat and live within a shelter of folded leaves; older caterpillars make a nest of leaves tied together with silk. Adults hibernate.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">Larval host plants of the nettle family (<i>Urticaceae</i>) including stinging nettle (<i>Urtica dioica</i>).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">Adults nectar on sap flows on trees, fermenting fruit, bird droppings, common milkweed, red clover, aster, and alfalfa.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">One <b>White M hairstreak</b> (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;"><i>Parhassius m-album</i>) of the <i>Lycaenidae </i>family was also seen.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">The adult is 1 1/4 - 1 5/8 inches. It is tailed, with the upperwings iridescent blue with black borders. The underside is grayish brown, with a white postmedian line edged with black and forming a white M near the tail, and a white spot near base of the costa. Compared with the gray hairstreak, white M hairstreaks have an additional white mark on the leading edge of the ventral side of the hindwing, and a stronger "M" mark on the outer corner of the ventral side of the hindwing, and the red-orange spot of the white M hairstreak is more inset from the wing margin. In flight, a flash of brilliant blue can be seen. Typically for other hairsteaks, the hindwings are always moving vertically when at rest, adding to the "false head" effect. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial;">The M-shaped lines on the underside hind wing lead towards a focal point of "false eye" - the red and blue spots and the "false antennae" - short wing tails with white tips. The hairstreak turns around when it lands to fool the predator about the whereabouts of its vital organs. Hence, frequently one can find individuals missing parts of the wings where the eyespot and tails were located: these individuals escape attack by predators, such as birds.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-730840810328168816.post-30387744873330614462012-11-28T14:39:00.001-08:002013-03-09T15:26:38.338-08:00November 12, 2012 Butterfly Monitoring<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On this partly cloudy November morning in Transect A, we observed many of our frequently seen butterflies including Phaon Crescents, Salt Marsh Skippers, Common Buckeyes, Gulf Fritillaries, and Cassius and Ceraunus blues. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the star of the day was the <b>White Peacock</b> (<i>Anartia jatrophae) </i>of the family <i>Nymphalidae.</i> Most of us had seen only one or two of these in the past, or never before. This beautiful butterfly is pictured on the cover of our butterfly monitoring bible - "Butterflies Through Binoculars" by Jeffrey Glassberg, Marc Minno and John Calhoun.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The White Peacock has a wingspan of 2 to 2.75 inches. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The caterpillar of the white peacock butterfly eats water hyssop so that is where the adult female lays her eggs.</span><span style="font: 14.0px Arial; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #012939;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Adult White Peacock Butterflies like Plumbago flower nectar. Their favorite habitat is is wide open land. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">For more information about the Butterfly Rainforest visit their website at</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #04176c;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/exhibits/always-on-display/butterfly-rainforest/">http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/exhibits/always-on-display/butterfly-rainforest/</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #04176c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Renee Stambaugh of Native Plant consulting brought native plants that are not only attractive to look at, but will also attract butterflies to your garden. Remember that butterflies need both larval host plants and nectar sources to survive.</span></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-730840810328168816.post-74099248667760177582012-10-28T07:39:00.005-07:002013-03-29T10:11:03.534-07:00October 15, 2012 Butterfly Monitoring<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The water along the marsh was extremely high on this somewhat hazy morning, and the butterflies were plentiful in the grasses that were not standing in water. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; line-height: 20px;">The <b>Ocola skipper </b>(<i>Panoquina ocola)</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><i> </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">has forewings projecting far beyond the hindwings when the butterfly is at rest. The upperside of their wings is dark brown; the underside of the hindwing is brown with no markings; the female has a blue-purple iridescent sheen. Adults nectar from lantana, spanish needle, milkweed, and buttonbush. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The <b>Salt Marsh Skipper </b>has a similar shape to the Ocola Skipper, but the hindwing undersides have pale veins and a prominent white streak. They nectar from flowers including sweet pepperbush, red clover, salt marsh fleabane, thistle, and verbena. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <b>Common Buckeye </b>(<i>Junonia coenia)</i> in the family <i>Nymphalidae,</i> soars like and eagle. We observed this behavior today along our transect. Several mating pairs were seen. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among the larger orange and black butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, the <b>Gulf Fritillary</b> <i>(Agraulis vanillae)</i>, <b>Florida Monarch</b> <i>(Danaus plexippus)</i> and <b>Viceroy</b> <i>(Limenitis archippus)</i> with wingspans from 2.5-3.0" were seen today. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The subtle physical differences between these species can be seen in the photos.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Willows serve as hostplants for the adult Viceroy. They feed on manure and carrion. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monarchs are strong fliers. They often flap slowly and then glide. They rest with their wings folded, but bask with them open. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gulf fritillaries prefer the nectar of red and white flowers, such as Spanish needles and Lantana.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The small <b>Phaon Crescent</b> <i>(Phyciodes phaon) </i>is often seen on frog fruit<i> (Phyla nodiflora) a </i>nectar plant in the Verbena Family, and we saw several today. This species has a wingspan of 1-1.5"</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-730840810328168816.post-87776720098272678312012-09-20T19:53:00.001-07:002012-09-20T20:02:42.214-07:00September 17, 2012 Butterfly Monitoring<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a warm and sunny morning. The grasses along the marsh were tall and green. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The spanish needle (<i>Bidens pilosa</i>) were blooming near the water, and where there were flowers, there were butterflies.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was the first time in three months that our group was able to reach our trail transects C and D, as they had been submerged after heavy rains. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were thrilled to report the sighting of a new species, the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Mangrove Buckeye</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Junonia genoveva). </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their caterpillars eat leaves of mangrove trees. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCk2ni_nJbRQFpDBUVw7dHhtexON6uW1xy9l8qGH1EJUfTFXwh7zwbidH3zbmVuPd1glKEjbhOjHzP_yoT_PeRYxa17dm9IyxcUIScsH3We-rzTbpjUcP69n2BM5d0CLAL9wVz43TtrPY/s1600/Black-Mangrove.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCk2ni_nJbRQFpDBUVw7dHhtexON6uW1xy9l8qGH1EJUfTFXwh7zwbidH3zbmVuPd1glKEjbhOjHzP_yoT_PeRYxa17dm9IyxcUIScsH3We-rzTbpjUcP69n2BM5d0CLAL9wVz43TtrPY/s320/Black-Mangrove.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have black mangroves along our GTM NERR waterways. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black mangrove contributes to the ecological community by trapping in the root system debris and detritus brought in by tides. The community is valued for its protection and stabilization of low-lying coastal lands and its importance in estuarine and coastal fishery food chains. Black mangroves can be easily identified by the numerous pencil-like breathing tubes, called pneumatophores, which grow vertically from the mud to just above the highest sustained water level.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More frequently seen is the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Common Buckeye</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, but we saw only one today in the Dam transect (Transect A). Both Buckeye butterflies are in the family Nymphalidae.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We observed the Red Admiral Butterfly (<i>Vanessa atalanta</i>), finally coming to rest after its erratic, rapid flight. They are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the family Nymphalidae. Caterpillar host plants include stinging nettle (<i>Urtica dioica</i>)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We marveled at the size, color and shape of the Giant Swallowtail as they glided past and to the treetops near the lake. They are in the family Papilionidae. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adult giant swallowtails have a forewing span of 4.6 to 7.4 inches (avg. 5.7 inches); the females are larger. Caterpillars eat leaves of citrus trees.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A healthy brood, we counted <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><b>thirty three</b></span> <b>Painted Lady</b> (<i>Vanessa cardui)</i> butterflies in the Dam transect. This species is i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">n the family Nymphalidae. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-730840810328168816.post-91638580595178214742012-08-14T10:38:00.001-07:002012-08-27T06:36:35.545-07:00August 13, 2012 Butterfly Monitoring<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went out for our monthly Butterfly Monitoring in our Guana Dam transect (Transect A) on a warm sunny morning. We have recently seen daily late afternoon downpours, and the rain has helped our groundcover plants along the marsh and lake to bloom. The small butterflies like this habitat, and we saw many different species. <strong>Dainty Sulphurs</strong>, (<em>Nathalis iole)</em> of the f<span class="field-content">amily Pieridae, were </span>flying characteristically low to the ground. A <strong>Least Skipper</strong>, <em>(Ancyloxypha numitor)</em> of the family Hesperiidae, was resting on a blade of grass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We compared the subtle differences between Tropical and Common Checkered Skippers - we observed both species along the marsh. We also spotted <strong>Ceraunus Blue</strong> (<em>Hemiargus ceraunus) </em><strong>Phaon Crescent</strong> (<em>Phyciodes</em> <em>phaon</em>) <strong>Palamedes Swallowtail</strong>, (<i>Papilio palamedes</i>), Horace's Duskywing (<em>Erynnis horatius),</em><strong>Salt Marsh Skippers</strong> (<em>Panoquina panoquin</em>) on Sea Oxeye Daisy, and one <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eastern Pygmy Blue</b>(<i>Brephidium pseudofea</i>) - the smallest butterfly. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <strong>Cloudless Sulphur</strong> (<span style="color: #1122cc;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Phoebis sennae)</em></span> </span>butterfly is commonly seen through spring and summer, and today was no exception; they were flying near the tree line at the edge of the lake. The <span class="st"><strong>Long</strong>-<strong>tailed Skipper</strong> (<em>Urbanus proteus</em>) of the Hesperiidae family is spotted at this time of year and was seen several times, resting on the leaves of wax myrtle.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-730840810328168816.post-69477262298857289852012-06-17T09:13:00.001-07:002012-08-14T10:40:11.821-07:00May 28, 2012 Butterfly Monitoring<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 2012 Memorial Day holiday followed tropical storm Beryl in our area, and that's when we went out for our monthly Butterfly Monitoring survey on May 28. There was very little blooming in the Guana Dam transect (Transect A), but we did see a variety of butterfly species including the Horace's Duskywing (<i>Erynnis horatius) (Hesperiidae </i>family<i>)</i>, Cassius<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; line-height: 20px;"><i> (Leptotes cassius)</i></span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; line-height: 16px;">Ceraunus Blues </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; line-height: 20px;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; line-height: 20px;"><i>Hemiargus ceraunus) (Lycaenidae </i>family<i>) </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; line-height: 16px;">and Palamedes Swallowtail (<i>Papilio palamedes</i>) (<i>Papilionidae</i> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; line-height: 16px;">Family</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a222a; line-height: 16px;">). </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-730840810328168816.post-8342611933787626402012-04-19T17:52:00.002-07:002012-04-19T17:55:01.311-07:00April 16, 2012 Butterfly Monitoring<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The winds were calm and the sun was bright with clear skies. We have had extremely dry weather the past month. Without the rain, there is very little flora blooming. The freshwater marsh appeared very dry - no water was visible behind the tall grasses. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Few butterfiles were spotted this morning, but among them were the <b>Variegated Fritillary</b> (<i>Euptoieta claudia) </i>nectaring on the few <i>gallardia</i> blooms that are planted near the kiosk overlooking the freshwater marsh along the yellow trail, in our Transect B. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We usually see the Gulf Fritillary, (<i>Agraulis vanillae)</i> not the Variegated. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Miami Blue Butterfly (<i>Hemiargus [Cyclargus] thomasi bethunebakerihas),</i> reduced to a few hundred survivors on isolated islands off Key West, was formally declared a federally endangered species on April 6, 2012.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once common in the southern coastal areas of Florida, the Miami Blue butterfly was eliminated from much of its former range due to ever-expanding urbanization</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the associated loss of coastal habitat. In the years following Hurricane Andrew, researchers feared that the butterfly may have become extinct as no verified sightings were recorded. Fortunately, the Miami Blue was rediscovered on November 29, 1999, as part of a small population of less than 100 individuals within the boundaries of Bahia Honda State Park in the Lower Florida Keys. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 19, 2012 on a warm day with calm breezes, after a weekend of similar weather, the first butterfly spotted on the trail transect B was a <b>Northern Cloudywing</b> (<i>Thorybes pylades) </i>sitting on the ground and so well camouflaged against the brown leaves. This species is in the Skipper Family (<i>Hesperiidae).</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hammock was full of fluttering <b>Viola's Wood-Satyrs, </b><i>Megisto viola</i>. This is typical for April, but March is early for them. This butterfly is in the Brush-foot Family (<i>Nymphalidae</i>). Adults have a slow bouncing flight and will rise as far as the tops of tall trees. Males patrol in the shade to find females. Eggs are laid singly on grass blades, which the caterpillars eat. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adults nectar on wood sap, rarely flower nectar. We counted 88 of this species in our transects, but there were hundreds more along the trails outside the boundaries of our transects.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also counted salt marsh skippers in this transect. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Skipper Family (<i>Hesperiidae).</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In transect D, the Red Bay transect, we again observed many Viola's Wood Satyrs. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also counted more than 20 Palamedes (<i>Papilio palamedes) </i>in transects B and D. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This butterfly is in the Swallowtail Family (<i>Papilionidae</i>). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They nectar on the thistle which was plentiful today, especially in Transect B. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Butterfly monitoring at <b>Transect A</b> (from the Environmental Education Center to the Trailhead, on both sides of the road - along the estuary and along the lake, passing the dam.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A calm and clear day. So many birds at the dock and on the water!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We believed them to be juvenile flounder.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a few Spanish needle (<i>Bidens alba</i>) blooms and some Indian blanket (<i>Gaillardia pulchella)</i>) but overall very few blooms. Some thistle popping up but not blooming. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">East of the dam was recently mowed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We saw the <b>Common Buckeye</b> (<i>Junonia coenia</i>) on dried grass, and the <b>Phaon Crescent (</b><i>Phyciodes</i><b> </b><i>phaon</i><b>) </b>on the Spanish needle. These are in the Brush-foot Family (<i>Nymphalidae</i>).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two <b>Ceraunus Blue</b> (<i>Hemiargus ceraunus) </i>with wings closed resting very still for a long time, and two <b>Cassius Blue</b><i> (Leptotes cassius),</i> also at rest on the dried out grass. These species are of the Blues and Hairstreaks (<i>Lycaenidae</i>) family.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we headed east on the lake side, the wind picked up suddenly. </span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0505 Guana River Rd, FL 32082, USA30.0224724 -81.326368830.0190354 -81.3313043 30.025909400000003 -81.3214333tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-730840810328168816.post-36848025209117166292011-11-29T15:00:00.000-08:002012-04-15T09:34:32.468-07:00November 2011 Butterfly Monitoring<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">November 2011 Butterfly Monitoring</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Transect A - From the Environmental Education Center to the Trailhead</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More birds than ever on the dock - pelicans, gulls and cormorants. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tall grasses were plentiful along the edge of the marsh. Also goldenrod and salt wort. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spotted a <b>Tropical Checkered Skipper</b> (<i>Pyrgus oileus</i>) basking. We had previously seen one in June, but more often we see the <b>Common Checkered Skipper</b>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were <b>Gulf Fritillary</b> (<i>Agraulis vanillae</i>) near shade trees and burned wood and dry grasses, as well as two <b>Common Buckeye </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Junonia coenia</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A <b>Ceraunus Blue</b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Hemiargus ceraunus) </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was opening and closing its wings, very blue/purple with open wings. They have low and erratic flight patterns. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frog fruit (<i>Phyla nodiflorawas)</i> also known as Carpetweed, was blooming with lots of runners and <b>Phaon Crescent </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Phyciodes</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>phaon</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">butterflies fluttering about, and resting with wings opening and closing as they rested. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good biodiversity today, with an <b>American Lady </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Vanessa virginiensis</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">two</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Monarchs</b>,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b>of the<b> </b>Brush-foot family (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Nymphalidae), </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a <b>Fiery Skipper</b> <i>(Hylephila phyleusand)</i> a <b>Long-tailed Skipper (</b><i>Urbanus proteus)</i>. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The male <b>Monarch</b> Butterfly may be easily distinguished from the female by noting the two highly visable black spots on the insect's hind wings and the thinner black webbing within the wings. The female's webbing is thicker and she has no identifying wing spot as the male does.</span><br />
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