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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 14:40:24 -0400 From: Greg Walker (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Muddy Creek route in Forsyth County, NC |
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=EF=BB=BFGood afternoon fellow Butterflyers! I spent part of the morning here in NW Piedmont NC to walk my Carolina Butte= rfly Monitoring Program route before it got too hot. For the second time in= a row, I must have arrived the very day after they mowed all of the open fi= elds along the Muddy Creek Greenway. Which, naturally, rendered them fairly= devoid of Lepidoptera. But the June bugs and several Odonata were evident.= The below is a list of ALL the butterflies (4) I saw while walking this 1 mi= le route: Eastern tiger swallowtail 1 Monarch 1 Pearl crescent 1 Eastern tailed blue 1 In spite of the mowing, I did see the following blooming along the periphery= of my route.=20 - Common Self-heal - Daisy fleabane - Common milkweed - Smooth cats ear - Carolina Horse nettle - Spotted St. John=E2=80=99s wort - Dutch White clover - Slender yellow woodsorrel - Wild potato vine Too bad the drought has reduced our populations so dramatically. =F0=9F=98=95= Pretty dismal report overall=E2=80=A6. Happy butterflying! Greg Walker=20 Lewisville, NC Sent from my iPhone= |
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