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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:47:38 -0400 From: Ryan Chaffee (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Durham County leps, July 11th |
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--0000000000008ba85f06565da508 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Good evening butterfliers, Today, I ran two Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring Program surveys at Horton Grove Nature Preserve. They mowed a portion of the prairie last summer, which seems to have paid off because it's now packed with mountain mint, both P. muticum and P. tenufolium! While butterfly numbers weren't as high as I'd hoped, they were still pretty solid for the doldrums (and in spite of the sheer number of honeybees hogging the mountain mint, ugh). Here is my full list from both surveys + incidentals: - Sleepy Orange - 5 - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 5 - Spicebush Swallowtail <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/380419270> - 1 - quite worn - Gray Hairstreak - 1 - Eastern Tailed-Blue - 3 - Summer Azure - 2 - Common Buckeye - 1 - Pearl Crescent - 4 - Hackberry Emperor - 1 - Carolina Satyr - 1 - Silver-spotted Skipper - 2 - Horace's Duskywing - 9 - including one mating pair! <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/380418877> - Southern Cloudywing <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/380419345> - 1 - Common Checkered-Skipper - 1 - Fiery Skipper - 4 Happy butterflying, Ryan Chaffee Cary, NC --0000000000008ba85f06565da508 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div><font size=3D"2">Good evening butterfliers,</font></d= iv><div><font size=3D"2"><br></font></div><div><font size=3D"2">Today, I ra= n two Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring Program surveys at Horton Grove Nature= Preserve. They mowed a portion of the prairie last summer, which seems to = have paid off because it's now packed with mountain mint, both P. mutic= um and P. tenufolium! While butterfly numbers weren't as high as I'= d hoped,=C2=A0they were still pretty solid for the doldrums=C2=A0(and in sp= ite of the sheer number of honeybees hogging=C2=A0the mountain mint, ugh). = Here is my full list from both surveys=C2=A0+ incidentals:</font></div><div= ><ul><li><font size=3D"2">Sleepy Orange - 5</font></li></ul><ul><li><font s= ize=3D"2">Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 5</font></li><li><font size=3D"2"><a = href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/380419270" originalSrc=3D"= https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/380419270">Spicebush Swallowtail</= a> - 1 - quite worn</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size=3D"2">Gray Hairstrea= k - 1</font></li><li><font size=3D"2">Eastern Tailed-Blue - 3</font></li><l= i><font size=3D"2">Summer Azure - 2</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size=3D"2= ">Common Buckeye - 1</font></li><li><font size=3D"2">Pearl Crescent - 4</fo= nt></li><li><font size=3D"2">Hackberry Emperor - 1</font></li><li><font siz= e=3D"2">Carolina Satyr - 1</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size=3D"2">Silver-= spotted Skipper - 2</font></li><li><font size=3D"2">Horace's Duskywing = - 9 - including one <a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/380= 418877" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/380418877">= mating pair!</a></font></li><li><font size=3D"2"><a href=3D"https://www.ina= turalist.org/observations/380419345" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist= .org/observations/380419345">Southern Cloudywing</a> - 1</font></li><li><fo= nt size=3D"2">Common Checkered-Skipper - 1</font></li><li>Fiery Skipper - 4= </li></ul><div>Happy butterflying,</div><div>Ryan Chaffee</div><div>Cary, N= C</div></div></div> --0000000000008ba85f06565da508-- |
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