Admirals March on

Hank and Gerie Golet gzgolet at attglobal.net
Wed Oct 3 10:45:17 EDT 2001


A dozen or more admirals on budliea yesterday here in my yard.  Half as many
ladies but they are mostly american now.  Monarchs down to a couple at any
one time where as 27 were counted on two bushes on 9/21.  Hank Golet, Old
Lyme
----- Original Message -----
From: "bill and Dale" <droberts03 at snet.net>
To: "butterfly ct" <ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 6:38 PM
Subject: Admirals March on


> Hi Lep-people,
>          Once again at Hammonassett Beach State Park in Madison CT the
> southerly migration (of the offspring of this years' earlier invasion)
> of Red Admirals (Vanessa atalanta) was going strongly  It was difficult
> to get good point counts today as the movement was highly dispersed
> throughout the park  In my previous post of Red Admiral migration a
> couple of weeks ago they moved along narrow corridors near the beach and
> first vegetated dune. Today they were everywhere. Some milling around
> rotting fruit and nectar sources and many were sunning in the earlier
> part of the day. I did two 15 minute point counts at the Butterfly
> Garden and estimate they were arriving at a rate of a little more than
> 125 per hour there.  I did a walking count early on through the trails
> of Willard's Island where they were sunning and eating fruit juice and
> came up with about 250 individuals. These numbers are just rough
> snapshots of what must have been a movement of thousands of individuals
> during the course of the day but as I say I've no way of accurately
> counting when they are spread out through the park. A great spectacle to
> behold none the less.  Monarchs were also going strong today and were
> only slightly less numerous than Admirals.
> Other butterflies-
> Orange sulfur- 30++ (Colias eurytheme)
> Clouded Sulfur- 10+ (Colias philodice)
> Painted Lady- 15 (Vanessa cardui)
> Least Skipper- 1 (Ancyloxypha numitor)
>                                                 Cheers everybody. I'd
> like to hear other lep migration reports if anyone else is seeing this
> stuff. I find the Admiral movement just as fascinating as the Monarch
> migration and who knows where these Admirals are going??? I sure don't!
>
> Bill Yule
>


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