So far we have had 32 species visit our gardens...and it's not even August yet! :D
This message was edited Jul 26, 2010 8:21 PM
Am I the only one that documents butterfly visitors?
Susan:
I keep a yard list as well. Holding steady at 100 so far since I've been here (7 years). This has been a good year for butterflies in north Texas so I'm hoping to see 101 before long.
Dale Clark
Dallas County Lepidopterists' Society
www.dallasbutterflies.com
By photographing and IDing I am keeping a list......
I'm not so well organized as to keep an accurate yard list but I know we're having a banner year!
I do try to keep a list from sightings on the first and fifteenth of the a month to compare from year to year. Somthing like the butterfly monitoring projects that some Lepidopterist Clubs do...
100 kinds is quite long list (at least in Ohio terms). Actually 32 is too!
You both must have sharp eyes!
t.
I keep a garden list on a monthly basis here in Victoria Australia. I thought I was doing well with a list of 28, compiled over 16 years, but that falls miles short of Dale's list of 100.
I think you would have to live in a more tropical region such as coastal Queensland to have a chance of anythging like that number.
Kennedy
It's funny, but I sometimes bemoan that I'm in north Texas instead of down in south Texas in the Rio Grande Valley -- where they have recorded around 350 species (don't have the papers near at hand to give an exact tally -- Cat, you out there?). Listing what comes when is a fun activity and it's helpful to go back, as Tabasco points out, in following years to compare. Memories fade and blur from year to year and nothing beats facts and statistics right there on paper (or in a computer file).
Dale Clark
Dallas County Lepidopterists' Society
www.dallasbutterflies.com
Thanks everyone for your responses! Last year we had 36 for a final tally. This year, being our 2nd, we hope to surpass 40 this year. We live on only 1/5th of an acre, so when someone has a butterfly farm (assuming it's on a much larger piece of land)...or local parks in one's area that would have 150+ species each season, one can't compare them as apples to apples. That would be as if I was giving #'s of our local park sightings and not my own from our residence gardens...LOL
Dale,
How large of an area is your butterfly farm? Do you have any pics you can post of the area?
Here's a couple of pics of all of our gardens...
This message was edited Jul 27, 2010 11:24 PM
And here's a pic of the far left garden you can only see a part of in the other pic...
