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10th Annual Butterfly Count
The ninth annual Wallkill
River National Wildlife Refuge butterfly
count was held on Sunday, July 12, 2009 for the North American
Butterfly Association (NABA). A total of nine volunteers participated. The volunteers divided into three groups and spent a total of 16.5 hours surveying numerous locations throughout the refuge. A total of 36 species and 1,124 individuals were recorded.
The total number of individuals counted, per species, are listed below:
Black Swallowtail
17
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
Spicebush Swallowtail
Cabbage White 145
Clouded Sulphur 174
Orange Sulphur 64
American Copper
Banded Hairstreak 30
Hickory Hairsteak 1
Gray Hairstreak 1
Eastern Tailed-Blue 19
Summer Azure 1
Variegated Fritillary
Great Spangled Fritillary 68
Pearl Crescent 199
Baltimore Checkerspot 12
Question Mark 3
Eastern Comma 15
American Lady 1
Painted Lady 1
Red Admiral 1 |
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Tawny Emperor 1
Viceroy
Northern Pearly-eye 9
Eyed Brown 2
Appalachian Brown 23
Little Wood-Satyr 15
Common Wood-nymph 134
Monarch 60
Silver-spotted Skipper 9
Common Sootywing 1
Horace's Duskywing
Wild Indigo Duskywing
Least Skipper 19
European Skipper 2
Crossline Skipper 2
Northern Broken-Dash 4
Little Glassywing 35
Delaware Skipper 40
Mulberry Wing
Broad-winged Skipper
Dion Skipper 2
Black Dash 3
Dun Skipper 9
Total number of species 36
Total number of individuals 1124 |
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Last updated:
July 27, 2009
