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ESPECIALLY FOR COLLECTORS
Vol.12: nos.3-4
WHAT'S IN YOUR BACKYARD? by William H. Howe
The other day I went through one of my year's field notes which chosen at random happened to be 1955 and I was curious to know how many butterfly speces had been taken right here on our nine acre suburban farm on the southeast edge of Ottawa, Kansas. Our flora here both native and introduced include several species of Oaks, Swamp Willow, Pecan, Shagbark Hickory, Soft Maple, White Ash, Chokecherry, Cottonwood, Osage Orange, Elm, and Hawthorne. Also such herbs and vines as Aristolochia, Viburnum, Tecoma, and Lonicera and a single Cephalanthus occidentalis bush near the creek which bordered our property. Here is the list of 64 species of butterflies taken on this nine acre property:
Lethe portlandia, Megisto gemma, M. cymela, Cercyonis pegala;
Danaus plexippus;
Dione vanilla, Fuptoieta claudia, Speyeria cybele, Melitcea nycteis, M. ismeria (gorgone ?), Phyciodes tharos, P. phaon, P. texana, Polygonia progne, P. interrogationis, P. comma, Nymphalis antiopa, Vanessa cardui, V. vir-glniensis, V. atalanta, Precis lavinia, Limenitis archippus, L. astyanax, Ancea andria, Asterocampa celtis, A. clyton, JVLestra amyone;
Tharsalea xanthoides, T. thoe, Strymon melinus, S. cecrops, S. falacer, Feniseca tarquinius, Everes comyntas, Leptotes marinus, Hemiargus isolus, Lyctenopsis pseudargiolus;
Battus philenor, Papilio polyxenes, P. glaucus, P. troilus, P. cresphontes;
Anthocaris genutia, Colias eurytheme, Xerene ccesonia, Eurema Visa, E. nicippe, E. mexicana, Pieris rapce, P. protodice, Nathalis iole, Phoebis eubule;
Epargyreus clarus, Achalarus lyciades, Thorybes pylades, T. bathyllus, Pholisora catullus, P. hayhurstii, Ancyloxipha numitor, Pyrgus communis, Hylephila phyleus, Polites themistocles, Poanes hobomok, Amblyscirtes vialis.
Within a mile of our farm I have collected these additional species: Eunica tatila, Chlosyne lacinia, Graphium marcellus, Phoebis agarithe, Euchloe olympia, Strymon titus, Incisalia henrici, Libytheana bachmanii, Problema byssus, Polites peckius, Lerodea eufala, Hesperia ottoe, Atalopedes campestris, Erynnis brizo, E. martialis, E. juvenalis, E. funeralis, E. horatius.
And this does not include some Skippers I cannot positively identify!
822 East Eleventh St., Ottawa, Kansas, U. S. A.