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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:17:04 -0400 From: Jeff Pippen (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Bluestem Conservation Preserve butterflies 7/10 |
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--Apple-Mail=_35EDCBCB-4073-42E7-93B4-262F31D1E108 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_5A19E4EC-7274-4B49-92CE-13D503592E8E" --Apple-Mail=_5A19E4EC-7274-4B49-92CE-13D503592E8E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Butterfliers, Last Friday (10 July 2026), Leah Fowler and I led a Carolinas Butterfly = Monitoring Program = <https://www.jeffpippen.com/butterflies/carolinasbmp/carolinasbmp.htm> = workshop and field trip at Bluestem Conservation Preserve in = northwestern Orange County, NC. As folks have mentioned, we are in that part of the season where we = normally see a dip in butterfly activity, and our results from last = Friday are indicative of that. In another month, both species and = numbers will be much higher! That said, we had a very nice field trip = and enjoyed this wonderful site and found several butterflies nectaring = on the various wildflowers (especially Purple Coneflower) . Many thanks = to Leah for tracking the sightings and compiling the list. Here are the = results: Bluestem, Orange Co, 7/10/2026 Swallowtails Black Swallowtail: 1 Spicebush Swallowtail: 1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: 8 Gossamer-wings Gray Hairstreak: 1 Eastern Tailed-Blue: 5 Brushfoots Red-spotted Purple: 1 Hackberry Emperor: 1 Common Buckeye: 1 Pearl Crescent: 1 Happy to be enjoying a misty/rainy day today! Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Pippen Mebane, NC Research Specialist, Georgetown University Director, Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring Program = <https://www.jeffpippen.com/butterflies/carolinasbmp/carbmp-protocols.htm>= | N. Am. Butterfly Monitoring Network = <https://www.thebutterflynetwork.org/> | Jeff=E2=80=99s Nature Pages = <https://www.jeffpippen.com/> --Apple-Mail=_5A19E4EC-7274-4B49-92CE-13D503592E8E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 <html aria-label=3D"message body"><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" = content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"></head><body = style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = line-break: after-white-space;">Butterfliers,<div><br></div><div>Last = Friday (10 July 2026), Leah Fowler and I led a <a = href=3D"https://www.jeffpippen.com/butterflies/carolinasbmp/carolinasbmp.h= tm">Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring Program</a> workshop and field = trip at Bluestem Conservation Preserve in northwestern Orange County, = NC.</div><div><br></div><div>As folks have mentioned, we are in that = part of the season where we normally see a dip in butterfly activity, = and our results from last Friday are indicative of that. In = another month, both species and numbers will be much higher! That = said, we had a very nice field trip and enjoyed this wonderful site and = found several butterflies nectaring on the various wildflowers = (especially Purple Coneflower) . Many thanks to Leah for tracking = the sightings and compiling the list. Here are the = results:</div><div><br></div><div><p dir=3D"ltr" = id=3D"docs-internal-guid-5934aff1-7fff-484c-21e6-ce94c9df5b20" = style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span = style=3D"font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", = serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; = font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bluestem, Orange Co, = 7/10/2026</span></p><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; = margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Swallowtails</span></p><ul style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-ligatures: = normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Black Swallowtail: 1</span></p></li><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-ligatures: = normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Spicebush Swallowtail: 1</span></p></li><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-ligatures: = normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: 8</span></p></li></ul><p dir=3D"ltr"= style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span = style=3D"font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", = serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; = font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Gossamer-wings</span></p><ul style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-ligatures: = normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Gray Hairstreak: 1</span></p></li><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-ligatures: = normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Eastern Tailed-Blue: 5</span></p></li></ul><p dir=3D"ltr" = style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span = style=3D"font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", = serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; = font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Brushfoots</span></p><ul style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-ligatures: = normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Red-spotted Purple: 1</span></p></li><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-ligatures: = normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Hackberry Emperor: 1</span></p></li><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-ligatures: = normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Common Buckeye: 1</span></p></li><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-ligatures: = normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Pearl Crescent: = 1</span></p></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Happy to be enjoying a = misty/rainy day today!</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><div> <meta charset=3D"UTF-8"><div dir=3D"auto" style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, = 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: = none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: = after-white-space;"><div dir=3D"auto" style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, = 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = word-spacing: 0px; 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