This Scientist Has Been Counting Butterflies for 47 Years and Has No Plans to Stop
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Particular interests include Argentine politics, hermetic texts and meteorology. His specialty, however, is butterflies, writes Deborah Netburn rt Shapiro stands on the edge of a Chevron gas station in the north-central Sierra, sipping a large Pepsi Aand scanning the landscape for butterfl ies. So far he’s spotted six species — a loping Western tiger swallowtail, two fl uttering California tortoiseshells, a copper-coloured Common checkered-skipper, a powdery Echo blue, a rusty-looking Nelson’s hairstreak and a brown Propertius duskywing. And that was while waiting for his ride to fi nish up in the restroom. Shapiro jots the names of each species on a white note card, then tucks it into his T-shirt pocket stuff ed with three pens, one Sharpie, a glasses case and newspaper clippings. It’s not a bad showing for a gas station at 7,000 feet, he says, climbing back into the car. Last year was abysmal for butterfl ies in California. For the fi rst time in his life, he didn’t see one single monarch caterpillar all summer long. This casual count at the rest stop indicates that 2019 will be better. But Shapiro isn’t celebrating yet. “Short-term fl uctuations may or may not contain messages about longer-term trends,” he says. And the long-term trends are clear: In California, the butterfl ies are disappearing. Shapiro, 73, is a professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis and SPOTLIGHT: Art Shapiro spends about 260 days a year in the field — and he looks like it. a collector of many things: quotes, books, names and stories. Particular interests include Argentine politics, hermetic texts and meteorology. His speciality, however, is butterfl ies. For nearly half a century he has meticulously tracked butterfl y populations at 10 sites in north- It’s completely central California, visiting each location every two weeks as long as incomprehensible, the whole the weather permits. thing. Nobody visits 10 sites In that time he has single- handedly created the longest- every two weeks (like Art running butterfl y monitoring project in North America. Shapiro does) for that long “It was originally designed as a fi ve-year project, but the data were (47 years). It is unheard of too good to stop collecting them,” he in the history of science says. “And here I am, 47 years later.” The protocol, for decades, has been unchanged and simple: Record and identify every butterfl y he sees. — Matt Forister, ecologist “It’s completely incomprehensible, the whole thing,” ‘ says Matt Forister, an ecologist who ’ studied with Shapiro before starting Tuesday, November 19, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY Tracking butterflies Butterfly sightings At both lower and higher elevations, the likelihood of observing most species has dropped. 1 1 3 Site Monarch Mourning Checkered butterfly cloak white 60% 0 BEAUTIFUL: A California Tortoiseshell butterfly sits on a mud flat in Gates Canyon in Vacaville, California.