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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 15:05:21 -0400 From: NICHOLAS FLANDERS (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Reversed Roadside-Skipper, Gates Co., NC, 6/24/25 |
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--0000000000008fc1bd0638a67aec Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT On 6/24/25 I tried to scout a Breeding Bird Survey route in the portion of Great Dismal Swamp NWR in NC. I drove approximately 5 mi. before having to turn around due to overgrown roads, and hadn't seen many butterflies other than a concentration of Pearl Crescents along a shadier stretch of road. On the way back I noticed two small buttonbush shrubs loaded with flowers and Lace-winged Roadside-Skippers that I had completely missed on the drive in! A couple other skipper species were mixed in, including a Reversed Roadside-Skipper, apparently the second report from Gates County and the first in several decades. I saw one in the same general area in 2014, also near the county line, that time on the Camden Co. side. Lists from Gates Co. and Camden Co. portions of the NWR below. Nick Flanders Portsmouth, VA Gates Co., NC Spicebush Swallowtail - 1 E. Tiger Swallowtail - 1 Sleepy Orange - 1 Cabbage White - 6 Summer Azure - 1 Variegated Fritillary - 1 Red-spotted Purple - 1 Common Buckeye - 1 Pearl Crescent - 18 Horace's Duskywing - 1 Yehl Skipper - 1 Worn Carolina Roadside-Skipper - 1 Worn Reversed Roadside-Skipper - 1 Worn, photo'd Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper - 9 Camden Co., NC Palamedes Swallowtail - 2 E. Tiger Swallowtail - 2 Red-banded Hairstreak - 1 Common Buckeye - 1 Pearl Crescent - 1 --0000000000008fc1bd0638a67aec Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"auto"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"auto">On 6/= 24/25 I tried to scout a Breeding Bird Survey route in the portion of Great= Dismal Swamp NWR in NC. I drove approximately 5 mi. before having to turn = around due to overgrown roads, and hadn't seen many butterflies other t= han a concentration of Pearl Crescents along a shadier stretch of road. On = the way back I noticed two small buttonbush shrubs loaded with flowers and = Lace-winged Roadside-Skippers that I had completely missed on the drive in!= A couple other skipper species were mixed in, including a Reversed Roadsid= e-Skipper, apparently the second report from Gates County and the first in = several decades. I saw one in the same general area in 2014, also near the = county line, that time on the Camden Co. side. Lists from Gates Co. and Cam= den Co. portions of the NWR below.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div di= r=3D"auto">Nick Flanders</div><div dir=3D"auto">Portsmouth, VA</div><div di= r=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Gates Co= ., NC</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Spicebush Swallowt= ail - 1</div><div dir=3D"auto">E. Tiger Swallowtail - 1</div><div>Sleepy Or= ange - 1</div><div dir=3D"auto">Cabbage White - 6</div><div dir=3D"auto">Su= mmer Azure - 1</div><div>Variegated Fritillary - 1</div><div dir=3D"auto">R= ed-spotted Purple - 1</div><div dir=3D"auto">Common Buckeye - 1</div><div d= ir=3D"auto">Pearl Crescent - 18</div><div dir=3D"auto"><div dir=3D"auto">Ho= race's Duskywing - 1</div></div><div dir=3D"auto">Yehl Skipper - 1=C2= =A0 =C2=A0Worn</div><div dir=3D"auto"><div dir=3D"auto">Carolina Roadside-S= kipper - 1=C2=A0 =C2=A0Worn</div></div><div dir=3D"auto"><div dir=3D"auto">= Reversed Roadside-Skipper - 1=C2=A0 =C2=A0Worn, photo'd</div></div><div= dir=3D"auto">Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper - 9</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br><= /div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Camden Co., NC</div><div= dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Palamedes Swallowtail - 2</div><d= iv dir=3D"auto">E. Tiger Swallowtail - 2</div><div dir=3D"auto">Red-banded = Hairstreak - 1</div><div dir=3D"auto">Common Buckeye - 1</div><div dir=3D"a= uto">Pearl Crescent - 1</div> </div></div> </div> --0000000000008fc1bd0638a67aec-- |
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