Splatometer and onward

[Grkovich, Alex]

One of Tony Moore finest specimens of Zebra Swallowtail was picked off of
his car's front grill while on a trip through Georgia...From what I
understand, the label says something like "Georgia...week of so and so..."

Alex 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bailey and Bjorklund
To: LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu
Sent: 9/5/04 1:40 PM
Subject: Splatometer and onward

Between 2:30 and 8:00 p.m. local time yesterday we spent part of our
time
driving around hitting bugs.  A thought that did not occur to me at 6:30
we
stopped to eat our sandwiches on the tailgate of our gas guzzler.   At
that
time, I casually noted on the grill were dragonflies.

It was only this morning that I realized that I better do a thorough
review
of my carnage - and I better do it before the wasps were up and about
scouring for likely vehicle grills to feed on.

"What are you doing?"
"Going out to look at the dragonflies on the truck's front."
"Them and grasshoppers."

It is amazing what you do for science before breakfast.  But what a
surprise.  No dragonflies were left on the grill, nor were there any
grasshoppers.  Dead wasps and what are locally called heel flies because
they are stirred up by cattle and horses.

It all makes me wonder how wasp populations have been affected by the
technological marvels of us infidels.  New food sources for some wasps
with
subsequent population increases; the others - who knows?

A life's study: The Correlation between Vehicle Grill Designs and Wasp
Populations.

And, yes, we did see some butterflies while travelling 100 miles and
walking
around the grasslands:

Common Checkered Skipper 1
Western White  5+
Cabbage White  20+
Clouded Sulphur  100+
Orange Sulphur  1
Purplish Copper   2
Fritillary sp.   2
Milbert's Tortoiseshell 5+
Red Admiral   1
Common Wood Nymph 1

A goodly number of species for this time of the year.  But the totals
per
species were low even though there is still a profusion of flowering
plants.


Martin Bailey.

Greetings from:
Weyburn, SK.
49.39 N 103.51W


 
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