>>Rob Diaz de Villegas: We see butterflies all the time.
But have you ever noticed how many different kinds there are?
Different sizes… different colors?
For one day a year in Tallahassee, that's all these citizen scientists do.
>>Dean Jue: The North American Butterfly Association has been sponsoring butterfly counts for a
number of years.
(on camera) "Can you see it?"
It's like the Audubon bird count.
It's part of citizen science.
>>Eric Shaw: There's a count circle.
And we split up into teams, and we basically go out and census the butterfly populations.
>>Dean Jue: As we collect data, over the years, for the same areas, you know, you can track
population trends of butterflies.
>>Eric Shaw: We're the East Side Team.
And we start in Tom Brown Park.
>>Eric Shaw: You have noticed that around here there's a lot of fields with a lot
of flowers.
There's a lot of nectar sources around here.
This is a pretty diverse area for the count.
We get a lot of numbers here.
What we have here is a common checkered skipper, on the ground.
Yeah, we get both species here, tropical and common.
They like it open like this, with low growth.
There's a lot of nectar sources like these little white flowers here that are good for
them.
>>Rob Diaz de Villegas: This is the common checkered skipper.
This is the tropical.
A keen eye and a pair of binoculars go a long way when identifying butterflies.
Little changes in the habitat within Tom Brown Park allow us to see different species of
flowers and butterflies.
>>Eric Shaw: This is a reliable area for southern skipperling, which is one of the smallest
butterflies in the eastern United States.
>>Dean Jue: A lot of butterfly watchers actually came from the bird watching world.
>>Eric Shaw: Actually I am a biologist.
But I was a birder for many years.
And a lot of people who get into butterflies get into birding.
We're out in the field anyway.
Birds are usually most active in the morning, and late in the afternoon.
And in the middle of the day, that's when the butterflies are most active.
So they go hand in hand.
>>Rob Diaz de Villegas: The southside team started in the Munson Sandhills, a pine flatwoods
environment.
>>Rob Diaz de Villegas: From the forest, they go to Lake Munson.
>>Dave McElveen: What we're hoping to see here at this site is some butterflies that
don't feed on nectar, they feed on tree sap.
So that would be the red spotted purples, and some of the emperors.
>>Rob Diaz de Villegas: Soon it gets cloudy, and many of these cold-blooded butterflies
stop flying.
>>Dean Jue: Yeah, you schedule it a year in advance, and you take what you get.
>>Rob Diaz de Villegas: We didn't catch up with the northside team at Klapp Phipps
Park, but you can check the WFSU Ecology Blog for a segment on the butterflies there.
>>Dean Jue: At the end of the day, we'll all gather at a local restaurant and compile
the results.
We'll just go over a list of the species that we've seen in previous counts, which
is approximately sixty.
And then everybody will call out if they saw that butterfly species.
And then, after that, we'll see if there are any new species.
>>Eric Shaw: The most interesting thing that we saw today were three Dorantes longtails.
This is a large skipper.
But it's actually a southern skipper from south Florida that, in warm weather, will
come up to north Florida.
>>Dean Jue: Two years ago, we had one in Phipps Park.
And evidently it bred, because we've seen them here, we've seen them at the Grove,
now we see them at Tom Brown Park.
So they've established a population.
And until we get a hard freeze probably, we will continue to see Dorantes longtails here.
Which is sort of neat.
>>Eric Shaw: There's a lookalike species called the long-tailed skipper that is very
common up here.
>>Rob Diaz de Villegas: Longtailed skipper caterpillars eat bean plants, which is how
I first got to know this species.
And it's in the garden that more people are getting to know butterflies and their
life cycles.
>>Dean Jue: There's definitely been a growing interest in butterfly gardening, especially
with the plight of the monarchs being publicized.
There's a lot of emphasis on establishing butterfly gardens, especially in schools.
Because, it's a way to introduce school children to science issues.
See the entire life cycle of butterflies, perhaps at home.
Yeah, I think butterfly gardening has increased in popularity.
>>Rob Diaz de Villegas: We've had fun raising butterflies, but there's also much to see
away from the house.
When you pay attention to butterflies, you start to notice different wildflowers.
And you start seeing other cool insects.
>>Dean Jue: Just another excuse to get and appreciate nature, basically.
>>Rob Diaz de Villegas: For WFSU, I'm Rob Diaz de Villegas.
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