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PAGE 6A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. APRIL 8. 2021
Yaarab Shrine Circus and Fair to be in Cumming in May
What: The largest Shrine Cir
cus and Fair in North America is
back for its 79th year, packed with
more excitement than ever.
The Yaarab Shrine has proudly
partnered with Royal Hanneford
Circus to provide circus goers
with some of the best entertain
ment under the Big Top.
Ringmaster Tim Tegge hosts
an unforgettable array of talent in
cluding the Flying Poemas featur
ing Adrian Poema, Parisian
Poodles of Paradise trained and
presented by Miss Gabriela, an
aerial extravaganza, Flanneford
Florses performing at liberty,
Fluman Cannonball Brian Miser,
and many more thrills and chills.
The Shrine Circus would not
be complete without the hilarious
Shrine Circus Clowns. You can
also see all the FREE ground acts
including All-American Petting
Zoo, Robinson’s Racing Pigs,
Cycle Circus Live, and Lew-E’s
Comedy Circus.
Wade Shows always provides fun
affordable family entertainment
with 35 rides for all ages. Come
be entertained and amazed then
fill up on all your favorite carnival
foods- com dogs, funnel cakes
and cotton candy, just to name a
few.
When: Saturday, May 22,
through Monday (Memorial Day),
May 31, 2021. See times and
more information on ticket spe
cials at
www.202lshrinecircus.com
Where: City of Cumming Fair
grounds, 235 Castleberry Road,
Cumming, Ga. 30040
The Wade Shows Fair Midway provides food, rides including the
massive gondola wheel and entertainment for all ages.
THURSDAY. APRIL 8. 2021 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 7A
Increase and decrease of butterflies related to climate, says UGA study
By Josh Paine
CAES News
Climate is likely the biggest
driver of butterfly abundance
change, according to a new study by
University of Georgia entomolo
gists.
Researchers in the UGA College
of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences found notable increases in
butterfly populations centered
around the Southeastern and Pacific
Northwest parts of the U.S., while
the Southwestern and Mountain
States show a decline, a finding con
sistent with another recent study fo
cused on Western butterfly trends.
The team of scientists examined
abundance and biodiversity trends
for North American butterflies over
a period of 25 years using a unique
citizen-science dataset that has
recorded observations of over 8 mil
lion butterflies across 456 species,
503 sites and nine ecoregions. They
compared these observations with
precipitation, temperature, and
urban and agricultural land use.
Butterflies are ecologically im
portant because they are pollinators,
herbivores and prey, making them
useful indicators of changes in the
environment.
“They have a really important
role,” said entomology professor
Bill Snyder, who tracks ecological
and species trends and has been fol
lowing reports of insect declines in
recent years.
“The whole idea of the ‘insect
apocalypse’ is interesting to talk
about, but there’s a whole lot of
complexity. It really is region-spe
cific,” he said.
Overall, the data showed a very
slight decline of less than 1% per
year. However, drops in two inva
sive butterflies, the Essex skipper
and small cabbage white, dispropor
tionately contributed to overall
abundance declines. The mix of but
terfly populations showed decreas
ing, stable or increasing populations
depending on location and species.
Michael Crossley, a postdoctoral
researcher in the department and
lead author of the paper, sought to
uncover the drivers of the changes.
“There are all sorts of human-
caused issues, and we sought to de
termine which might be causing the
increases and decreases,” he said.
Average precipitation and tem
perature during the sampling period
appeared to be the strongest drivers
of this complex mosaic of abun
dance responses. Butterflies that are
increasing in abundance might be
benefiting from locally improved
food resources or reduced stress in
areas that have become wetter, ac
cording to the study.
“Even this complex mosaic in
the changes of butterflies doesn’t
mean it’s unpredictable. In this case,
we’re finding this single driver.
Where places that are hotter and
drier there are decreases, and in
creases in places that are wetter and
cooler,” Crossley said.
The data used in the study was
compiled by the North American
Butterfly Association from citizen-
scientist monitoring effort over the
past 26 years. Counts are made
within a 15-mile area during the
summer and are open to participa
tion from the public.
“There are only so many ento
mologists in the world, and having
citizen scientists going out doing
these counts has provided a totally
unique data set that people have
never done,” Snyder said.
Even so, the data still has some
limitations.
The analysis reaches back only
to 1993. “We can’t say anything
about what happened before then,”
Crossley said. “For example, exten
sive clearing of land for agriculture
had already happened a century or
more ago, and our study is blind to
these historical changes.”
In addition, only sites from the
contiguous 48 U.S. states, Southern
Canada and Alaska were analyzed,
limiting the ability to predict
changes in some regions, notably
Mexico and Northern Canada.
“Even though it’s an amazing data
set, there’s not a lot of data in
Canada — so if species are moving
north, we wouldn’t be able to see it
in the data set,” Snyder said.
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Abundance trends were tracked by scientists in more than 500 sites
across most of the U.S. and parts of Canada, showing increases in the
Southeast and Pacific Northwest in contrast with declines in the South
west and Mountain West.
He plans to continue tracking
butterflies and looking at what di
rection they’re moving. But the fu
ture of butterflies will likely depend
on climate conditions, he says.
The study is published along
with co-authors at Hendrix College
and Rice University in Global
Change Biology. Partial funding for
the research came from the U.S. De
partment of Agriculture’s National
Institute of Food and Agriculture.
[Josh Paine is a marketing spe
cialist with the University of Geor
gia College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences.]
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