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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 20:43:01 -0400 From: Jason Love (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Needmore Game Lands, Swain County, NC leps |
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--000000000000dbb5470651d07fb2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Folks, Today (14 May 2026) I walked Brushy Creek Rd. on the Needmore Gamelands for about 3 hours. Good lightly-traveled gravel road for leps - on side of the road you have the Little Tennessee River and bottomland wetlands and the other side uplands and xeric pine-oak forests. You can hear Acadian Flycatchers and Brown-headed Nuthatches in the same spot. Not many places in the mountains where that occurs. Sunny and 68 F. Here is what I found (butterflies with links were also submitted to iNaturalist): Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 50 (could have been an Appalachian or two - most were flying, not puddling/nectaring) Spicebush Swallowtail - 4 Clouded Sulphur - 2 Red-banded Hairstreak - 2 Summer Azure - 10 Great Spangled Fritillary - 2 (fresh) Silvery Checkerspot <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361566666> - 6 Pearl Crescent - 8 American Lady - 2 Red-spotted Purple - 2 Pearly-eye spp. - 3 (one had orange antenna tips, so either Northern or Creole) Little Wood Satyr - 15 Carolina Satyr - 50 Silver-spotted Skipper - 50 Northern Cloudywing <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361565653> -1 Juvenal's Duskywing <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361565358> - 8 Zabulon Skipper <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361566632> - 6 Lace-winged Roadside Skipper <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361565589> - 1 (nectaring on *Erigeron* spp.) Least Skipper - 5 Cheers, Jason Love Otto, NC --000000000000dbb5470651d07fb2 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Folks,<div>Today (14 May 2026) I walked Brushy Creek Rd. o= n the Needmore Gamelands for about 3 hours. Good lightly-traveled gravel ro= ad for leps - on side of the road you have the Little Tennessee River and b= ottomland wetlands and the other side uplands and xeric pine-oak forests. Y= ou can hear Acadian Flycatchers and Brown-headed Nuthatches in the same spo= t. Not many places in the mountains where that occurs. Sunny and 68 F. Here= is what I found (butterflies with links were also submitted to iNaturalist= ):</div><div><br></div><div>Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 50 (could have been= an Appalachian or two - most were flying, not puddling/nectaring)</div><di= v>Spicebush Swallowtail - 4</div><div>Clouded Sulphur - 2</div><div>Red-ban= ded Hairstreak - 2</div><div>Summer Azure - 10</div><div>Great Spangled Fri= tillary - 2 (fresh)</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observ= ations/361566666" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3= 61566666">Silvery Checkerspot</a> - 6</div><div>Pearl Crescent - 8</div><di= v>American Lady - 2</div><div>Red-spotted Purple - 2</div><div>Pearly-eye s= pp. - 3 (one had orange antenna tips, so either Northern or Creole)</div><d= iv>Little Wood Satyr - 15</div><div>Carolina Satyr - 50</div><div>Silver-sp= otted Skipper - 50</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observa= tions/361565653" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/36= 1565653">Northern Cloudywing</a> -1</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.inatur= alist.org/observations/361565358" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.or= g/observations/361565358">Juvenal's Duskywing</a> - 8</div><div><a href= =3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361566632" originalSrc=3D"http= s://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361566632">Zabulon Skipper</a> - 6</di= v><div><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361565589" origi= nalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361565589">Lace-winged R= oadside Skipper</a> - 1 (nectaring on <i>Erigeron</i> spp.)</div><div>Least= Skipper - 5</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jason Love</div><di= v>Otto, NC</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div> --000000000000dbb5470651d07fb2-- |
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