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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 15:52:34 -0400 From: Ryan Chaffee (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Mitchell County butterflies, 7/2 |
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--000000000000c711a30655ba4483 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Good afternoon butterfliers! Jeff Pippen and I headed back to the mountains to explore and run the survey we set up last week. While we had fewer Pepper and Salt Skippers than last week, we had some other great finds, including an Indian Skipper! Here is our total list: Mitchell County, NC - Green Mountain and Beauty Spot Gap Road - Pipevine Swallowtail - 50 - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 7 - Orange Sulphur - 5 - Clouded Sulphur - 3 - Cabbage White - 7 - Summer Azure - 8 - Appalachian Azure <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/377577169> - 2 - very worn but still large than nearby Summer Azures - Summer/Appalachian Azure - 1 - flew up into the canopy but appeared large - Eastern Tailed-Blue - 11 - Gray Hairstreak - 1 - Monarch - 2 - Great Spangled Fritillary - 35 - Aphrodite Fritillary - 18 - Great Spangled/Aphrodite Fritillary - 13 - Variegated Fritillary - 2 - Meadow Fritillary - 6 - Pearl Crescent - 13 - Silvery Checkerspot - 5 - Red Admiral - 4 - Eastern Comma - 1 - Common Wood-Nymph - 3 - Silver-spotted Skipper - 54 - *Indian Skipper!* <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/377524753> - 1 - only 3rd record for Mitchell County - *Pepper and Salt Skipper* - 3 - Northern Broken-dash <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/377577592> - 2 - Dun Skipper - 3 Avery County, NC - Blue Ridge Parkway - Pipevine Swallowtail - 1 - Cabbage White - 2 - Great Spangled Fritillary - 3 - Aphrodite Fritillary - 3 - Common Wood-Nymph - 4 - Silver-spotted Skipper - 2 Hope everyone's tolerating the heat and enjoying the weekend! Good butterflying, Ryan Chaffee Cary, NC --000000000000c711a30655ba4483 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Good afternoon butterfliers!</div><d= iv><br></div><div>Jeff Pippen=20 and I headed back to the mountains to explore and run the survey we set=20 up last week. While we had fewer Pepper and Salt Skippers than last=20 week, we had some other great finds, including an Indian Skipper! Here=20 is our total list:</div><div><br></div><div>Mitchell County, NC - Green Mou= ntain and Beauty Spot Gap Road</div><div><ul><li>Pipevine Swallowtail - 50<= /li><li>Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 7</li></ul><ul><li>Orange Sulphur - 5</= li><li>Clouded Sulphur - 3</li><li>Cabbage White - 7</li></ul><ul><li>Summe= r Azure - 8</li><li><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/377= 577169" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/377577169" = target=3D"_blank">Appalachian Azure</a> - 2 - very worn but still large tha= n nearby Summer Azures</li><li>Summer/Appalachian Azure - 1 - flew up into = the canopy but appeared large</li><li>Eastern Tailed-Blue - 11</li><li>Gray= Hairstreak - 1</li></ul><ul><li>Monarch - 2</li><li>Great Spangled Fritill= ary - 35</li><li>Aphrodite Fritillary - 18</li><li>Great Spangled/Aphrodite= Fritillary - 13</li><li>Variegated Fritillary - 2</li><li>Meadow Fritillar= y - 6</li><li>Pearl Crescent - 13</li><li>Silvery Checkerspot - 5</li><li>R= ed Admiral - 4</li><li>Eastern Comma - 1</li><li>Common Wood-Nymph - 3</li>= </ul><ul><li>Silver-spotted Skipper - 54</li><li><a href=3D"https://www.ina= turalist.org/observations/377524753" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist= .org/observations/377524753" target=3D"_blank"><b>Indian Skipper!</b></a> -= 1 - only 3rd record for Mitchell County</li><li><b>Pepper and Salt Skipper= </b> - 3</li><li><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/377577= 592" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/377577592" tar= get=3D"_blank">Northern Broken-dash</a> - 2</li><li>Dun Skipper - 3</li></u= l><div>Avery County, NC - Blue Ridge Parkway</div><div><ul><li>Pipevine Swa= llowtail - 1</li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Cabbage White - 2</li></ul><ul><li= >Great Spangled Fritillary - 3</li><li>Aphrodite Fritillary - 3</li><li>Com= mon Wood-Nymph - 4</li></ul><ul><li>Silver-spotted Skipper - 2</li></ul><di= v>Hope everyone's tolerating the heat and enjoying the weekend!</div><d= iv><br></div><div>Good butterflying,</div><div>Ryan Chaffee</div><div>Cary,= NC</div></div></div><br></div> </div> --000000000000c711a30655ba4483-- |
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