Adams County, Ohio Butterfly Count Data

Sponsored by The Edge of Appalachia Preserves Council and The Ohio Nature Conservancy in conjunction with the North American Butterfly Association annual Fourth of July Butterfly Count.

Held in Adams Co. Ohio, 38°46.5' N, 83°25' W, elevation 152 to 376 m, within a 15 mi diameter circle centered at Tulip Rd. and Rt. 125 in Lynx, OH in Brush Creek Twp. approx. 13 km E. of West Union, OH on Rt. 125, including the Edge of Appalachia Preserves managed by the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science and The Ohio Nature Conservancy. Habitat includes unglaciated, forested hills, scattered prairie remnants, old fields, and nearby oak-savannah enclave. Plants include many state-listed, endemic species.

The 15^th Annual Count was held Sat. 21 June 2003. We met at the Edge of Appalachia Preserve Office on Waggoner Riffle Rd off Rt. 125 between West Union and Lynx at 9:00 am. Here’s a typical group of hot, tired counters at the end of the day, taken in 1997. Our compiler this year was Chris Bedel from the Cincinnati Museum Center.

The 2004 Count will probably, as usual, be held the last Saturday of June. For more information, contact Chris Bedel from the Cincinnati Museum Center or Pete Whan from The Nature Conservancy. There will be a $3 registration fee, as required by NABA. As per NABA requirements, all butterflies captured for identification will be released, and no personal collecting will be allowed.

Taxonomic classification here follows Ifner, David C., John Shuey, and John V. Calhoun. 1992. Butterflies and Skippers of Ohio. Ohio Biol. Surv. Bull. New Series. 9(1) xii + 212 p.

Date:	01 Jul 1989	30 Jun 1990	29 Jun 1991	11 Jul 1992	26 Jun 1993	25 Jun 1994	24 Jun 1995	29 Jun 1996	28 Jun 1997	27 Jun 1998	26 Jun 1999	24 Jun 2000	30 Jun 2001	28 Jun 2002	21 Jun 2003	26 Jun 2004	25 Jun 2005	24 Jun 2006		18 -Year Total	18 -Year Average	No. of Years	% of Adults
SUPERFAMILY HESPERIOIDEA
Family Hesperiidae
Subfamily Pyrginae
Silver-spotted Skipper      Epargyreus clarus	41	131	105	43	85	83 + 1 L5	44	50 + 6 L5	430	91 + 2 L5	247 + 1 L5	24	17	56	173	72	50	43		1785 + 10 L	99.17 + 0.56 L	18	7.27%
Hoary Edge      Achalarus lyciades		+ 1 L4			1	2	1	2	1		1	1			1					10 + 1 L	0.56 + 0.06 L	9	0.04%
Southern Cloudy Wing      Thorybes bathyllus				2	9	5	22	15	39	5	3	6	10	4	15	7	13	3		158	8.78	15	0.64%
Northern Cloudy Wing      Thorybes pylades		6	2	3	5		2	7	18	1	2	11	2		6	2		1		68	3.78	14	0.28%
Cloudy Wings      Thorybes sp.	12																			12	0.67	1	0.05%
Dreamy Dusky Wing      Erynnis brizo [ICELUS???]								1		2		1	1	1		1				7	0.39	6	0.03%
Horace’s Dusky Wing      Erynnis horatius	1	4	8	7	2	1	1	3		43	15	17	3	26	2	38		3		174	9.67	16	0.71%
Wild Indigo Dusky Wing      Erynnis baptisiae			5	10		3		7		8	12	27	2	10	1	26 + 1 E6		2		113 + 1 E	6.28 + 0.06 E	12	0.46%
Common Sooty Wing      Pholisora catullus			1		1			1		13	5		2	6		4		1		34	1.89	9	0.14%
Subfamily Hesperiinae
Swarthy Skipper      Nastra lherminier					1			2	3		2		1	1	2		2	1		15	0.83	9	0.06%
Least Skipper      Ancyloxypha numitor	1		4		1*	1		2	5	2	1				2	5	10	4		38	2.11	12	0.15%
Fiery Skipper      Hylephila phyleus																1				1	0.06	1
Peck’s Skipper      Polites peckius		1		1	10		5	4	15	6	5	4		1	2	4	5	3		66	3.67	14	0.27%
Tawny-edged Skipper      Polites themistocles	1	6	3		10		1	2	4	8	1	3	2		5	5	3	8		62	3.44	15	0.25%
Cross Line Skipper      Polites origenes		5		3		1	1	1	11	6	5	5		6	1	10	22	4		81	4.50	14	0.33%
Northern Broken Dash      Wallengrenia egeremet		1	1	4	8	1		11	8	9	10	6	2		13	6	25	3		108	6.00	15	0.44%
Little Glassy Wing      Pompeius verna	2	3	2	4	5	3	6	2	5	13	8	4	2	10	9	16	19	20		133	7.39	18	0.54%
Sachem      Atalopedes campestris			1	1									3			1	1			7	0.39	5	0.03%
Delaware Skipper      Atrytone logan		1	2				6	2	8	1	1	2	2	1			1	1		28	1.56	12	0.11%
Hobomok or Northern Golden Skipper      Poanes hobomok						2			1						1					4	0.22	3	0.02%
Zabulon or Southern Golden Skipper      Poanes zabulon								1	1				1		1	1	8	1		14	0.78	7	0.06%
Poanes sp.					1															1	0.06	1
Dun Skipper or Sedge Witch      Euphyes vestris		2	2	4	1		2	1	11	8	8	6	1	7	12	15	3			83	4.61	15	0.34%
Pepper and Salt Skipper      Amblyscirtes hegon									3			1						1		5	0.28	3	0.02%
(Common) Roadside Skipper      Amblyscirtes vialis							1		1	1								1		4	0.22	4	0.02%
SUPERFAMILY PAPILIONOIDEA
Family Papillionidae
Pipevine Swallowtail      Battus philenor		8 + 2 E11	79	53	1	4	2	12	4	88	88	110 + 1 L24	117 + 1 L24	22	8 + 2 L24	94	3	4		697 + 2 E + 4 L	38.72 + 0.11 E + 0.22 L	17	2.84%
Zebra Swallowtail      Eurytides marcellus	51	33		39	40	31	28	34	31	36	17	72	35 + 1 L1	53	65	32	33	35		665 + 1 L	36.94 + 0.06 L	17	2.71%
Black Swallowtail      Papilio polyxenes	23 + 1 L13	1	20	9 + 1 L12	12	15 + 1 L24	2	33 + 1 L24	2	17 + 1 L13	10	7	3	7	5	26	3	11 + 1 L		206 + 6 L	11.44 + 0.33 L	18	0.84%
Giant Swallowtail      Papilio cresphontes			5	1	+ 1 L3	+ 1 L3		1 + 4 L3	1 + 1 L3	+ 4 L3 + 1 P3	+ 1 L3	+ 2 L3	3	+ 2 L3	+ 1 L3	2	1	2		16 + 17 L + 1 P	0.89 + 0.94 L + 0.06 P	15	0.07%
Tiger Swallowtail      Papilio glaucus	49	18	29	188	10	41	27	24	18	133	17	44	110	68	9	244	19	100		1148	63.78	18	4.67%
Spicebush Swallowtail      Papilio troilus	16	4	163 + 1 L10	42	43	34 + 3 L9	6	17 + 1 L10	45	22	60	25	47	38 + 8 L9	35	83	16	48 + 1 L		744 + 14 L	41.33 + 0.78 L	18	3.03%
Family Pieridae
Subfamily Pierinae
European Cabbage White      Pieris rapae	38	28	49	105	24	2	5	7	24	18	79	74	55	25	48	27	33	7		648	36.00	18	2.64%
Clouded or Common Sulphur      Colias philodice	47	72	42	35	258	116	112	258	221	68	46	17	24	17	99	81	120	51		1684	93.56	18	6.86%
Alfalfa Butterfly or Orange Sulphur      Colias eurytheme	28	47	25	43	111	74	113	22	155	56	19	18	38	40	95	51	72	37		1044	58.00	18	4.25%
Colias sp.						691				3*										694	38.56	2	2.83%
Cloudless Sulphur      Phoebis sennae				1																1	0.06	1
Little Sulphur      Eurema lisa				4			1		6	8		3				1	1			24	1.33	7	0.10%
Sleepy Orange      Eurema nicippe													4							4	0.22	1	0.02%
Family Lycaenidae
Subfamily Gerydinae
Harvester      Feniseca tarquinius	1		1	2	1*			2	1	1		1			1		7			18	1.00	10	0.07%
Subfamily Theclinae
American Copper      Lycaena phlaeas								1*	1			1					1			4	0.22	4	0.02%
Coral Hairstreak      Harkenclenus titus	2	7	2	4	7	5	35	6	9	13	29	10	2			1	2			134	7.44	15	0.55%
Edwards’ Hairstreak      Satyrium edwardsii	13	14	3	2	60	20	14	24	45	39	54	59	12	9	44	6	32	23		473	26.28	18	1.93%
Banded Hairstreak      Satyrium calanus					7	2	1	1	1	14	4	10	1		10	2		1		54	3.00	12	0.22%
Hickory Hairstreak      Satyrium caryaevorum														1	1	2				4	0.22	3	0.02%
Striped Hairstreak      Satyrium liparops						1	1					1		1						4	0.22	4	0.02%
Red-banded Hairstreak      Calycopis cecrops							1													1	0.06	1
Olive Hairstreak      Mitoura gryneus				2												3				5	0.28	2	0.02%
White M Hairstreak      Parrhasius m-album																1	1			2	0.11	2	0.01%
Gray Hairstreak      Strymon melinus				1	2		1	1		2	11	3	3			1	4	1		30	1.67	11	0.12%
Subfamily Plebeiinae
Eastern Tailed Blue      Everes comyntas	70	50	28	85	38	131	54	130	38	175	128	249	46	88	13	74	128	158		1683	93.50	18	6.85%
Spring/Summer Azure      Celastrina ladon	1	3	14 + 1 L2		10	8	1	7	21	10	8	7	2	18	30	15	38	32		225 + 1 L	12.50 + 0.06 L	17	0.92%
Appalachian Blue      Celastrina neglecta-major																		+ 2 L23		+ 2 L	+ 0.11 L	1
Family Riodinidae
Northern Metalmark      Calephelis borealis		1	3	7	2	3	6	25	16	38	28	12	13	15	5	18	37	30		259	14.39	17	1.05%
Family Libytheidae
American/Eastern Snout      Libytheana carinenta/bachmanii							1	4			3	1	1	27	1	2				40	2.22	8	0.16%
Family Nymphalidae
Variegated Fritillary      Euptoieta claudia	1			1		1					2	3		2		5				15	0.83	7	0.06%
Great Spangled Fritillary      Speyeria cybele	368	345	91	110	233	225	327	273	536	431	855	627	203	149	263	190	427	391		6044	335.78	18	24.61%
Aphrodite Fritillary      Speyeria aphrodite	7	2	1	1	2	2	3		1	8	1	4	3	3			1	1		40	2.22	15	0.16%
Meadow Fritillary      Boloria bellona					1	1	2	1*	2		5	4	28	4	16	140	2	5		211	11.72	13	0.86%
Silvery Checkerspot      Chlosyne nycteis	1	1	+ 68 L21	3	2	1	6	17	29	2	9	6 + 1 L22		3	45	5	8	2		140 + 69 L	7.78 + 3.83 L	17	0.57%
Pearl Crescent      Phyciodes tharos	31	13	273	169	7	53	8	47	12	132	72	460	52	109	16	263	20	12		1749	97.17	18	7.12%
Baltimore      Euphydryas phaeton	6	8			26 + 3 EM19	8	1	5	14	2 + 5 EM18 + 100 L18	3 + 2 EM18	6	+ 6 EM19				4 + 1 EM19	2		85 + 17 EM + 100 L	4.72 + 0.94 EM + 5.56 L	12	0.35%
Question Mark      Polygonia interrogationis	12	3 + 5 L8	1	6	2	14	2	9	4	12		19	50	14	9	56	1	13		227 + 5 L	12.61 + 0.28 L	17	0.92%
Comma      Polygonia comma	6	8	3	16	11	15	2	9	23	13	3	7	6	6	23	60	3	11		225	12.50	18	0.92%
Mourning Cloak      Nymphalis antiopa	6	5		3	9	3	2	2 + 3 E	5	2	1	14	6	2	8	5	1	3		77 + 3 E	4.28 + 0.17 E	17	0.31%
American Painted Lady      Vanessa virginiensis				2	1	7	2		1	5		10	6	1	1	2		1		39	2.17	12	0.16%
Painted Lady      Vanessa cardui	1		1	3 + 2 L20	1	1								1	1					9 + 2 L	0.50 + 0.11 L	7	0.04%
Red Admiral      Vanessa atalanta	12	19		16	6	10	2	4	28	14	1	12	11 + 1 L24	5	8	35		5		188 + 1 L	10.44 + 0.06 L	16	0.77%
Buckeye      Junonia coenia								1				18			1	1				21	1.17	4	0.09%
Red-spotted Purple      Limenitis arthemis astyanax		3	31	6	1	4	1	12	36	19	1	8	11	8	11	9	9	9		179	9.94	17	0.73%
Viceroy      Limenitis archippus			1	1	1	1			1	1										6	0.33	6	0.02%
Family Apaturidae
Hackberry Butterfly      Asterocampa celtis		2	1	2	6	15	1	8	29	3	5	1	4	17	14	4	7	6		125	6.94	17	0.51%
Tawny Emperor      Asterocampa clyton	1	10	6	5	2	8	7	7	10	23	17	2	2	17	10	3	21	3		154	8.56	18	0.63%
Family Satyridae
Northern Pearly Eye      Enodia anthedon	1	1	1			7	4		3		15	9	2	4	20	11	27	26		131	7.28	14	0.53%
Gemmed Satyr      Cyllopsis gemma											1	5	3	1	1	9		5		25	1.39	7	0.10%
Carolina Satyr      Hermeuptychia sosybius			4								1				2	2		1		10	0.56	5	0.04%
Little Wood Satyr      Megisto cymela	8	7	215	14	12	45	16	14	41	21	12	28	18	13	24	68	19	20		595	33.06	18	2.42%
Common Wood Nymph      Cercyonis pegala	2	10	174	179	3	9	8	5		31	10	14	7	7		61	3	2		525	29.17	16	2.14%
Family Danaidae
Monarch      Danaus plexippus	9 + 3 L14	6	27 + 3 L14 + 1 P14	12 + 9 L14	22 + 2 L16	7 + 2 L17	3	15 + 3 L14	42	5 + 2 L14	7 + 2 L16	6 + 1 L15	5	1	21	5	1	25 + 4 L		219 + 31 L + 1 P	12.17 + 1.72 L + 0.06 P	18	0.89%
TOTALS
TOTAL ADULTS SEEN	869	889	1429	1254	1114	1717	900	1152	2020	1682	1948	2105	984	925	1209	1914	1267	1183		24561	1364.50
TOTAL ADULT SPECIES SEEN	34	39	41	47	49	47	49	53	53	51	51	56	50	47	51	58	48	52		77	48.67		63.20%
OTHER LIFE STAGES	+ 4 L	+ 2 E + 6 L	+ 73 L + 1 P	+ 12 L	+ 3 EM + 3 L	+ 8 L		+ 3 E + 15 L	+ 1 L	+ 5 EM + 109 L + 1 P	+ 2 EM + 4 L	+ 5 L	+ 6 EM + 3 L	+ 10 L	+ 3 L	+ 1 E	+ 1 EM	+ 8 L		+ 6 E + 17 EM + 264 L + 2 P	0.33 E 0.94 EM 14.67 L 0.11 P
TOTAL INDIVIDUALS SEEN (not counting eggs or egg masses)	873	895	1503	1266	1117	1725	900	1167	2021	1792	1952	2110	987	935	1212	1914	1267	1191		24827	1379.28
TOTAL SPECIES SEEN (not counting eggs or egg masses)	34	40	42	47	50	48	49	53	53	52	52	57	50	48	52	58	48	53		77	49.22		63.92%

FIELD NOTES: Land use changes affecting butterfly populations include extensive erosion from flash flooding, removal of old fencerows, lack of zoning allowing for conversion of woods and arable land to business properties and housing tracts with multi-acre lawns, monthly roadside mowing along highway right-of-ways and chemical herbicide applied along guard rails, as well as some old fields brought back into crop production and pasturage. New in 2001: large amounts of roadside vegetation, including many trees as well as host and nectar plants, has been destroyed throughout the count area due to installation of sewer and water pipes. Along most roadways, an area much wider than necessary to lay the pipes was cleared. These areas were subsequently seeded with non-native lawn grasses.

FOOTNOTES ON HOST PLANTS:
¹Found on Pawpaw, Annonaceae:  Asimina triloba
²Found on Black Snakeroot, Ranunculaceae:  Cimicifuga racemosa
³Found on Prickly Ash, Rutaceae:  Zanthoxylum americanum
⁴Found on Tick-Trefoil, Leguminosae:  Desmodium sp.
⁵Found on Black Locust, Leguminosae:  Robinia pseudoacacia
⁶Found on Crown Vetch, Leguminosae:  Coronilla varia
⁷Found on Weeping Willow, Salicaceae:  Salix babylonica
⁸Found on Slippery Elm, Ulmaceae:  Ulmus rubra
⁹Found on Spicebush, Lauraceae:  Lindera benzoin
¹⁰Found on Sassafras, Lauraceae:  Sassafras albidum
¹¹Found on Virginia Snakeroot, Aristolochiaceae:  Aristolochia serpentaria
¹²Found on Wild Carrot, Umbelliferae:  Daucus carota
¹³Found on Cow-Parsnip, Umbelliferae:  Heracleum maximum
¹⁴Found on Common Milkweed, Asclepiadaceae:  Asclepias syriaca
¹⁵Found on Butterfly Milkweed, Asclepiadaceae:  Asclepias tuberosa
¹⁶Found on Common & Butterfly Milkweed, Asclepiadaceae:  Asclepias syriaca & tuberosa
¹⁷Found on Green Milkweed, Asclepiadaceae:  Asclepias viridus
¹⁸Found on Smooth False-Foxglove, Scrophulariaceae:  Aureolaria flava
¹⁹Found on Turtlehead, Scrophulariaceae:  Chelone glabra
²⁰Found on Field Thistle, Compositae:  Cirsium discolor
²¹Found on Stiff-Haired Sunflower, Compositae:  Helianthus hirsutua
²²Found on Wingstem, Compositae:  Actinomeris alternifolia
²³Found on Black Cohosh,
²⁴Found on the ground

Here are some other Adams County residents:

Definitely not a complete list, but here are some photos taken on count days:

• Old Field on Hill at End of Cline Rd.
• Another Old Field
• Another Old Field
• Field in from of Church on Tulip Rd.
• View of Lynx Prairie
• Reindeer Moss (Lynx Prairie)
• lichens (Lynx Prairie)
• ferns (Lynx Prairie)
• Thimbleweed, Ranunculaceae: Anemone virginiana
• Deptford Pink, Caryophyllaceae: Dianthus armeria
• Honey Locust, Leguminosae: Gleditsia triacanthos
• Everlasting Pea, Leguminosae: Lathyrus latifolius
• Queen Ann’s Lace, Umbelliferae: Daucus carota
• Whorled Loosestrife, Primulaceae: Lysimachia quadrifolia
• Dogbane, Apocynaceae: Apocynum sp.
• Butterfly-weed, Asclepiadaceae: Asclepias tuberosa
• Common Milkweed, Asclepiadaceae: Asclepias syriaca
• Common Milkweed, Asclepiadaceae: Asclepias syriaca
• Indian Paintbrush, Scrophulariaceae: Castilleja coccinea
• Smooth Ruellia, Acanthaceae: Ruellia strepens
• Smooth Ruellia, Acanthaceae: Ruellia strepens
• Bluets, Rubiaceae: Houstonia caerulea
• Black-eyed Susan, Compositae: Rudbeckia hirta
• Chicory, Compositae: Cichorium intybus
• Day Lily, Liliaceae: Hemerocallis fulva
• Yucca, Liliaceae: Yucca filamentosa
• Widow Skimmer (female), Odonata Libellula luctuosa (ID courtesy of Eric Eaton)
• Large Milkweed Bug, Hemiptera: Lygaeidae: Oncopeltus fasciatus
• Dogbane Beetle, Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae:
• Rosy Maple Moth, Lepidoptera: Citheroniidae: Dryocampa rubcunda
• Buck Moth Caterpillar, Lepidoptera: Hemileucidae: Hemileuca maia
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Aves: Apodiformes: Trochilidae: Archilochus colubris
• Redwing Blackbird Nest, Aves: Emberizidae: Icterinae: Agelaius phoeniceus
  
• purple mystery flower (Lynx Prairie)

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