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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 13:19:47 -0400 From: Heather Rayburn (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Yancey County (Mt. Mitchell) 7/30/26 |
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--Apple-Mail=_EBB7937A-9902-4C7C-90FB-50564E7864E8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Last Thursday was perfect weather for Mt. Mitchell. Started at 64-degrees, = mostly clear, little wind. On the drive up from Asheville, I saw lots of Pi= pevines and some Tigers. There were also many dead butterflies in the road.= I checked four of them (Pipevines). The roadsides once I turned into the M= OMI road were bursting with Cutleaf Coneflower and Thistle. This video does= n=E2=80=99t really capture the beauty of it, but it=E2=80=99s my best try:= =20 MOMI Pipevine/Thistle parties <https://www.flickr.com/photos/190206870@N03/= 55440721051/in/datetaken/>. Blooms: Scarlet Bee Balm, Mtn. Dwarf Dandelion, St. John=E2=80=99s Wart, Jo= e Pye, Saxifrage, Three-tooted Cinquefoil, Pink Turtlehead, Cutleaf Coneflo= wer, Thistle, etc. Pipevine Swallowtails, 150+ Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, 12+ (I had about four dark form.) Orange Sulphur, 1 Summer Azure, 2 Eastern Tailed-Blue, 2 Great Spangled Fritillary, 1 Fritillary sp., 3 (including one that was either a Varigated or Meadow) GREEN COMMA <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/388004187>, 1 (Super = fresh!) Comma sp., 3 Red Admiral, 1 Pearl Crescent, 1 Horace=E2=80=99s Duskywing <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/388227= 808>, 3 (I=E2=80=99m having trouble distinguishing this species from Wild I= ndigo) Sachem, 1 Cheers, Heather Rayburn Asheville --Apple-Mail=_EBB7937A-9902-4C7C-90FB-50564E7864E8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" content=3D"text/html; charset= =3Dutf-8"></head><body style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mod= e: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Last Thursday was perfect weather= for Mt. Mitchell. Started at 64-degrees, mostly clear, little wind. On the= drive up from Asheville, I saw lots of Pipevines and some Tigers. There we= re also many dead butterflies in the road. I checked four of them (Pipevine= s). The roadsides once I turned into the MOMI road were bursting with Cutle= af Coneflower and Thistle. This video doesn=E2=80=99t really capture the be= auty of it, but it=E2=80=99s my best try:<b> </b><div><br></div><div><= b><a href=3D"https://www.flickr.com/photos/190206870@N03/55440721051/in/dat= etaken/" originalSrc=3D"https://www.flickr.com/photos/190206870@N03/5544072= 1051/in/datetaken/">MOMI Pipevine/Thistle parties</a></b>.<div><br></div><d= iv><br></div><div><b>Blooms:</b> Scarlet Bee Balm, Mtn. Dwarf Dandelion, St= . John=E2=80=99s Wart, Joe Pye, Saxifrage, Three-tooted Cinquefoil, Pink Tu= rtlehead, Cutleaf Coneflower, Thistle, etc.</div></div><div><br></div><div>= Pipevine Swallowtails, 150+</div><div>Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, 12+ (I had= about four dark form.)</div><div>Orange Sulphur, 1</div><div>Summer Azure,= 2</div><div>Eastern Tailed-Blue, 2</div><div>Great Spangled Fritillary, 1<= /div><div>Fritillary sp., 3 (including one that was either a Varigated or M= eadow)</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/388004= 187" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/388004187">GRE= EN COMMA</a>, 1 (Super fresh!)</div><div>Comma sp., 3</div><div>Red Admiral= , 1</div><div>Pearl Crescent, 1</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalis= t.org/observations/388227808" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/ob= servations/388227808">Horace=E2=80=99s Duskywing</a>, 3 (I=E2=80=99m having= trouble distinguishing this species from Wild Indigo)</div><div>Sachem, 1<= /div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Heather Rayburn</div><div>Ashevi= lle</div><div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_EBB7937A-9902-4C7C-90FB-50564E7864E8-- |
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