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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 15:18:39 -0400 From: Harry LeGrand (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Re: Muddy Creek route in Forsyth County, NC |
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--000000000000cd159c06560a428f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I wrote in the Butterflies of NC, SC, VA, and GA book -- you really want and need to have an interest in OTHER natural history taxa besides butterflies -- wildflowers, shrubs/trees, birds, dragonflies, amphibians and reptiles, etc. as too often the butterflies are just so few and far between that you MUST have another natural history activity --if not photography -- to keep from getting bored and give it all up! Glad you know a lot of local plants! Harry LeGrand Raleigh On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 2:42=E2=80=AFPM Greg Walker <carolinaleps...> = wrote: > Good afternoon fellow Butterflyers! > I spent part of the morning here in NW Piedmont NC to walk my Carolina > Butterfly 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 t= he > open fields 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 > mile 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. > > - 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 > Lewisville, NC > > Sent from my iPhone > --000000000000cd159c06560a428f Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div>I wrote in the Butterflies of NC, SC, VA, and GA book= -- you really want and need to have an interest in OTHER natural history t= axa besides butterflies=C2=A0 -- wildflowers, shrubs/trees, birds, dragonfl= ies, amphibians and reptiles, etc. as too often the butterflies are just so= few and far between that you MUST have another natural history activity --= if not photography -- to keep from getting bored and give it all up!</div><= div><br></div><div>Glad you know a lot of local plants!</div><div><br></div= ><div>Harry LeGrand</div><div>Raleigh</div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_qu= ote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Tue, Ju= l 7, 2026 at 2:42=E2=80=AFPM Greg Walker <<a href=3D"mailto:carolinaleps= @duke.edu"><carolinaleps...></a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class= =3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rg= b(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Good afternoon fellow Butterflyers!<br> I spent part of the morning here in NW Piedmont NC to walk my Carolina Butt= erfly Monitoring Program route before it got too hot.=C2=A0 For the second = time in a row, I must have arrived the very day after they mowed all of the= open fields along the Muddy Creek Greenway.=C2=A0 Which, naturally, render= ed them fairly devoid of Lepidoptera.=C2=A0 But the June bugs and several O= donata were evident.<br> <br> The below is a list of ALL the butterflies (4) I saw while walking this 1 m= ile route:<br> <br> Eastern tiger swallowtail=C2=A0 1<br> Monarch=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A01<br> Pearl crescent=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 1<br> Eastern tailed blue=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A01<br> <br> In spite of the mowing, I did see the following blooming along the peripher= y of my route. <br> <br> - Common Self-heal<br> - Daisy fleabane<br> - Common milkweed<br> - Smooth cats ear<br> - Carolina Horse nettle<br> - Spotted St. John=E2=80=99s wort<br> - Dutch White clover<br> - Slender yellow woodsorrel<br> - Wild potato vine<br> <br> Too bad the drought has reduced our populations so dramatically.=C2=A0 =F0= =9F=98=95=C2=A0 Pretty dismal report overall=E2=80=A6.<br> <br> Happy butterflying!<br> <br> Greg Walker <br> Lewisville, NC<br> <br> Sent from my iPhone<br> </blockquote></div> --000000000000cd159c06560a428f-- |
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