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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 17:32:51 -0400 From: Jason Love (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Butterflies at the Welch Farm, Cherokee County, NC |
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--000000000000c7f8110652468a21 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Folks, Yesterday (19 May 2026) I spent a little over an hour at the Welch Farm, which is owned by Mainspring Conservation Trust. The tract consists of a mix of bottomland farmland, oxbow wetlands, and a healthy belt of riparian forest alongside the Valley River. Here is what I found: Tiger Swallowtails (looked like both Eastern and Appalachian STs were flying, but hard to tell them apart as none of them landed for closer looks): 10 Spicebush Swallowtail: 2 Orange Sulphur: 1 Cabbage White: 4 Eastern-tailed Blue: 1 Summer Azure <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/363186999>: 25 (some puddling in the gravel bars by the river) Northern Pearly-eye <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/363076386>: 4 Pearly-eye spp: 4 Carolina Satyr: 16 Silvery Checkerspot: 4 Variegated Fritillary: 1 Great Spangled Fritillary: 1 Silver-spotted Skipper: 8 Clouded Skipper: 1 Zabulon Skipper <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/363187181>: 4 Cheers, Jason Love Otto, NC --000000000000c7f8110652468a21 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Folks,<div>Yesterday (19 May 2026) I spent a little over a= n hour at the Welch Farm, which is owned by Mainspring Conservation Trust. = The tract consists of a mix of bottomland farmland, oxbow wetlands, and a h= ealthy belt of riparian forest alongside the Valley River. Here is what I f= ound:</div><div><br></div><div>Tiger Swallowtails (looked like both Eastern= and Appalachian STs were flying, but hard to tell them apart as none of th= em landed for closer looks): 10</div><div>Spicebush Swallowtail: 2</div><di= v>Orange Sulphur: 1</div><div>Cabbage White: 4</div><div>Eastern-tailed Blu= e: 1</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/36318699= 9" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/363186999">Summe= r Azure</a>: 25 (some puddling in the gravel bars=C2=A0by the river)</div><= div><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/363076386" original= Src=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/363076386">Northern Pearly-= eye</a>: 4</div><div>Pearly-eye spp: 4</div><div>Carolina Satyr: 16</div><d= iv>Silvery Checkerspot: 4</div><div>Variegated=C2=A0Fritillary: 1</div><div= >Great Spangled Fritillary: 1</div><div>Silver-spotted Skipper: 8</div><div= >Clouded Skipper: 1</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observ= ations/363187181" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3= 63187181">Zabulon Skipper</a>: 4</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div= >Jason Love</div><div>Otto, NC</div></div> --000000000000c7f8110652468a21-- |
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