{"id":949,"date":"2016-04-21T22:16:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/contents\/?p=949"},"modified":"2016-04-21T22:16:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:16:38","slug":"vermont-butterfly-big-year-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/fr\/vermont-butterfly-big-year-takes-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Butterfly Big Year Takes Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/contents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20110329KPMcFarland.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-512\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/contents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20110329KPMcFarland-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Butterflying\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20110329KPMcFarland-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20110329KPMcFarland-1024x686.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>With the help of an army of citizen scientists, the <a href=\"http:\/\/val.vtecostudies.org\/projects\/vermont-butterfly-big-year\/\">Vermont Butterfly Big\u00a0Year<\/a>\u00a0aims to record every species of butterfly in Vermont this year. It\u2019s a blend of science, education, competition, enjoyment, and a quest to monitor the changing nature of the state. Climate change, invasive species, habitat loss, and other environmental concerns are altering the biological diversity of Vermont. And with your help, VCE is trying to understand what this means for butterflies.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>VCE biologist Kent McFarland led a six-year atlas of butterfly diversity across Vermont, involving hundreds of volunteers and producing a landmark report for the state in 2007. The <a href=\"http:\/\/val.vtecostudies.org\/ projects\/vermont-butterfly-survey\">Vermont Butterfly Survey<\/a>, a project of the <a href=\"http:\/\/val.vtecostudies.org\/\">Vermont Atlas of Life<\/a>,\u00a0established a baseline accounting of butterfly distribution and abundance throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been almost a decade since the atlas,\u201d said McFarland. \u201cAtlases are typically repeated every 25 years, so we won\u2019t have another effort like that until around 2027. But with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/#\/\">eButterfly<\/a> making the task much easier, we thought it was time to get a quick, one-year snapshot across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/val.vtecostudies.org\/projects\/vermont-butterfly-big-year\/\">Vermont Butterfly Big Year<\/a> aims to get volunteers of all kinds to search fields and fens, mountains and meadows, even their own backyards, to help document every species of butterfly in Vermont and in as many locations as possible. Digital cameras and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/#\/\">eButterfly<\/a> make this mission easier for volunteers and our biologists. A real-time, online checklist program, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/#\/\">eButterfly<\/a> provides a new way for everyone to report, organize, and access information about butterflies in Vermont and beyond. Launched in 2013, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/#\/\">eButterfly<\/a> provides rich data sources for basic information on butterfly abundance, distribution,and phenology.<\/p>\n<p>Butterfly watchers have already reported seven species of butterflies on eButterfly. On March 27th several Mourning Cloaks and a Milbert&#8217;s Tortoiseshell were reported. Recent warm weather has produced more spring species, incredibly many of these species\u00a0overwinter in Vermont as adults.<\/p>\n<h3>Vermont <a href=\"http:\/\/val.vtecostudies.org\/projects\/vermont-butterfly-big-year\/scoreboard\/\">Butterfly Big Year List<\/a> (1st date reported)<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Mourning Cloak (3\/27)<\/li>\n<li>Milbert\u2019s Tortoiseshell (3\/27)<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Comma (4\/14)<\/li>\n<li>Gray Comma (4\/14)<\/li>\n<li>West Virginia White (4\/15)<\/li>\n<li>Northern Spring Azure (4\/16)<\/li>\n<li>Green Comma (4\/18)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the help of an army of citizen scientists, the Vermont Butterfly Big\u00a0Year\u00a0aims to record every species of butterfly in Vermont this year. It\u2019s a blend of science, education, competition, enjoyment, and a quest to monitor the changing nature of the state. 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