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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:40:09 -0400 From: Harry LeGrand (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: A bland hour at the Raulston Arboretum, Wake Co., NC -- July 30 |
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--00000000000028b8bb0657d93e48 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Folks, The RDU Airport near Raleigh has gotten a whopping *13" *of rain in July, which is greater than the total amount of the roughly 12" we got from January through June! As the weather today was pleasantly mildish (about 82 degrees) and sunny, I hit the arboretum for an hour from 1230 - 130. Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh was very floriferous today -- with lots of good nectar plants. But, as I expected, the butterfly diversity was horrible. Sadly, the damage from the drought might have already been done, at least locally. We won't know for a few months. Despite the weather and lots of flowers, I could only muster 10 species. Pipevine Swallowtail 3 Sleepy Orange 2 Cabbage White 7 Gray Hairstreak 2 Common Buckeye 1 the only brushfoot!! Silver-spotted Skipper 15 Horace's Duskywing 5 COMMON SOOTYWING 1 nice view, my first of the year Fiery Skipper 75+ I stopped looking at small orange skippers after about the 30th, so could have missed a Sachem Clouded Skipper 1 Harry LeGrand Raleigh --00000000000028b8bb0657d93e48 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Folks,</div><div><br></div><div>The RDU Airport near = Raleigh has gotten a whopping <b>13" </b>of rain in July, which is gre= ater than the total amount of the roughly 12" we got from January thro= ugh June!=C2=A0 =C2=A0As the weather today=C2=A0was pleasantly mildish (abo= ut 82 degrees) and sunny, I hit the arboretum for an hour from=C2=A01230 - = 130. Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh was very floriferous today -- with lots = of good=C2=A0nectar=C2=A0plants. But, as I expected, the butterfly diversit= y was horrible.=C2=A0 Sadly, the damage from the drought might have already been done, at least l= ocally. We won't know for a few months. Despite the weather and lots of= flowers, I could only muster 10 species.</div><div><br></div><div>Pipevine= Swallowtail=C2=A0 3</div><div>Sleepy Orange=C2=A0 2</div><div>Cabbage Whit= e=C2=A0 7</div><div>Gray Hairstreak=C2=A0 2</div><div>Common Buckeye=C2=A0 = 1 the only brushfoot!!</div><div>Silver-spotted Skipper 15</div><div>Horace= 's Duskywing 5</div><div>COMMON SOOTYWING=C2=A0 1=C2=A0 nice view, my f= irst of the year</div><div>Fiery Skipper 75+=C2=A0 I stopped looking at sma= ll orange skippers after about the 30th, so could have missed a Sachem</div= ><div>Clouded Skipper=C2=A0 1</div><div><br></div><div>Harry LeGrand</div><= div>Raleigh</div></div> --00000000000028b8bb0657d93e48-- |
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