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McShea welcomed the Rappahannockers onboard. He offered to process Rappahannock’s data and add it to Clarke’s to get a more complete picture of butterfly populations in the northern Piedmont, and RappFLOW has offered to map the results.
Tb train for the count, eight members of RLEFs Biodiversity Task Force recently spent a couple of hours at Blandy Experimental Farm in Clarke County training with McShea and his research team. The training was simple and fun— look at slides of native butterflies to learn distinguishing characteristics among the species and then walk out to a nearby field to put the learning in action. Volunteers were armed with string and flags to mark off the area to be studied; instructions for collecting butterfly data; a butterfly survey sheet to mark down the number of each species counted; and a beginner’s guide to identifying 33 of the most common native Virginia species.
Once the volunteers were in the field, the hunt was on! Enthusiastic cries of “monarch heading your way,” and “is that an orange or a clouded sulfur?” were ricocheting across the field. As the trainees quickly learned, some butterflies, such as the tiger swallowtail, are large and languorous in their flight, and thus easy to identify, while others, such as the pearl crescent, are tiny and quick and call for identification, well, on the fly. McShea advised the volunteers that the first day of counting could be rough for
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