[TN-Butterflies] documenting butterflies and moths in tennessee counties during 2013 via bamona
- From: "Steve Stedman" <birdsongteam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 16:14:00 -0600
The ongoing effort to document, via photographs, the presence of butterflies
and moths in Tennessee counties--and thus establish their distribution in the
state--continues in 2013.
As of the end of 2012, a total of 5252 county records of butterflies had been
documented at the BAMONA website, about 1000 prior to September 2006 and the
remaining 4250 since that month.
During the six and a half years that have elapsed since September 2006, the
average number of butterfly species that have been documented in the state's 95
counties has risen from 10.55 to 55.28.
Forty-two Tennessee counties have butterfly lists that exceed the state
average, while 53 counties have butterfly lists that fall slightly to
considerably below the average. The county with the most documented butterfly
species is Polk (113), and the county with the fewest documented butterfly
species is Houston (20).
You may view tables with all of these statistics at the ButterflyPage of my
website (address listed below). At that page you may also access links to Doug
Bruce's website, which offers both current maps displaying the documented
presence of butterfly species in Tennessee counties and checklists of butterfly
species seen/not seen in Tennessee counties. Many thanks to Doug for making
these helpful resources available online.
While it is important to submit photographs of county record lep species to
BAMONA, it is also important to submit photographs for more common species, so
that their ongoing presence in the state can be documented--and so that perhaps
their year to year abundance can be tracked. So please submit photos liberally
following your butterfly field trips.
Best wishes for a good lep season during 2013,
Steve Stedman
Cookeville, Putnam County
Link to ButterflyPage:
http://iweb.tntech.edu/sstedman/ButterflyTennessee.htm
Link to page with butterfly totals:
http://iweb.tntech.edu/sstedman/ButterflyDocumentationTN.htm
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