Count Center: Intersection of Old Topanga Canyon Rd x Topanga Canyon Blvd
Count date: 10 July 1999 Count hours: 1000 to 1700 hrs
Count weather: clear and sunny, temperatures in the mid 20's C
Count participants: n=10 Count groups: one group of 5-10 individuals
Count Compiler: Walter H. Sakai, Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405.
|
Butterfly |
Species |
SYC |
SYP |
Total |
|
Western Tiger Swallowtail |
Papilio rutulus |
07 |
02 |
09 |
|
Pale Swallowtail |
Papilio eurymedon |
03 |
03 |
|
|
Cabbage White |
Pieris rapae |
21 |
26 |
47 |
|
California Hairstreak |
Satyrium califomica |
02 |
03 |
05 |
|
Gold-hunter's Hairstreak |
Satyrium auretorum |
02 |
02 |
|
|
Brown Elfin |
Callophrys augustinus |
02 |
02 |
|
|
Marine Blue |
Leptotes marina |
06 |
07 |
13 |
|
Spring Azure |
Celastrina ladon |
04 |
01 |
05 |
|
Square-spotted Blue |
Euphilotes battoides |
01 |
02 |
03 |
|
Acmon Blue |
Plebejus acmon |
14 |
09 |
23 |
|
Variable Checkerspot |
Euphydryas chalcedona |
01 |
01 |
|
|
Mourning Cloak |
Nymphalis antiopa |
01 |
01 |
|
|
American Lady |
Vanessa virginiensis |
01 |
01 |
|
|
Painted Lady |
Vanessa cardui |
01 |
01 |
|
|
Common Buckeye |
Junonia coenia |
05 |
36 |
41 |
|
Lorquin's Admiral |
Limenitis lorquini |
09 |
05 |
14 |
|
California Sister |
Adelpha bredowii |
03 |
04 |
07 |
|
Common Ringlet |
Coenonympha tullia |
10 |
10 |
20 |
|
Monarch |
Danaus plexippus |
|
01 |
01 |
|
Mournful Duskywing |
Erynnis tristis |
03 |
03 |
|
|
Northern White-skipper |
Heliopetes ericetorum |
|
02 |
02 |
|
Fiery Skipper |
Hylephila phyleus |
04 |
01 |
05 |
|
Woodland Skipper |
Ochlodes sylvanoides |
04 |
04 |
|
|
Umber Skipper |
Poanes melane |
05 |
01 |
06 |
|
Totals |
|
109 |
110 |
219 |
|
Ctenuchid Moth |
Ctenucha brunnea |
15 |
|
|
SYC = Santa Ynez Canyon from the Topanga SP entrance to the "waterfall."
SYP = Santa Ynez Park downstream from the entrance of Topanga SP
Total number of species is comparable to other years, but total number of individuals was a 10 year low. 'Insect season' was 4-6 weeks late for Southern California by most accounts, attributed (of course) to La Niña.