PAPILIO BREVICAUDA IN CAPE BRETON ISLAND, N. S. (LEPID.)

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Main Author: McDunnough, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1939
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Breton Island; Sandy Beach; Bras d'Or Lake
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent71153-7; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X00110582

I first made the acquaintance of Papilio brevicauda in Cape Breton in the summer of 1936 when engaged on an Insect Faunal Survey of this region. We ( i.e. , my assistant Mr. T. N. Freeman and myself) had made our head-quarters at the picturesque town of Baddeck on Little Bras d'Or Lake and on the afternoon of July 12th I decided to row over to the small island opposite the town, which forms the eastern side of the harbour; this island is heavily wooded down to the water's edge except for a small strip of sandy beach on the Irest side, which is grown over with various coarse grasses and numerous low plants, chief among which is a flourishing colony of lovage ( Ligusticum scothicum ), a plant which to my knowledge does not accur on the mainland in this region.