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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 16:03:34 -0400 From: Ryan Chaffee (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Orange County, NC - Botanical Garden Leps - 8/7 |
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--0000000000007b4b5b06587a80a6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Good afternoon! Stopped by the NC Botanical Garden around noon under sunny, warm conditions. Popular nectar plants were Hollow Joe-Pye, New York Ironweed, and Starry Rosinweed. Overall, decent numbers and lots of goldfinches and hummingbirds around as well. Also, finally getting some grass skipper diversity! Here's my full list: - Sleepy Orange - 1 - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 4 - Spicebush Swallowtail - 1 - Zebra Swallowtail <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/389128470> - 2 - Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1 - Common Buckeye - 4 - Pearl Crescent - 2 - Silver-spotted Skipper - 12 - just a fraction compared to the last few weeks - Horace's Duskywing - 2 - Fiery Skipper - 5 - Sachem - 1 - Delaware Skipper <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/389095028> - 1 - Little Glassywing <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/389129856> - 1 Good butterflying, Ryan Chaffee Cary, NC --0000000000007b4b5b06587a80a6 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Good afternoon!</div><div><br></div><div>Stopped by t= he NC Botanical Garden around noon under sunny, warm conditions. Popular ne= ctar plants were Hollow Joe-Pye, New York Ironweed, and Starry Rosinweed. O= verall, decent numbers and lots of goldfinches and hummingbirds around as w= ell. Also, finally getting some grass skipper diversity! Here's my full= list:</div><div><ul><li>Sleepy Orange - 1</li></ul><ul><li>Eastern Tiger S= wallowtail - 4</li><li>Spicebush Swallowtail - 1</li><li><a href=3D"https:/= /www.inaturalist.org/observations/389128470" originalSrc=3D"https://www.ina= turalist.org/observations/389128470">Zebra Swallowtail</a> - 2</li></ul><ul= ><li>Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1</li></ul><ul><li>Common Buckeye - 4</li><li>Pe= arl Crescent - 2</li></ul><ul><li>Silver-spotted Skipper - 12 - just a frac= tion compared to the last few weeks</li><li>Horace's Duskywing - 2</li>= <li>Fiery Skipper - 5</li><li>Sachem - 1</li><li><a href=3D"https://www.ina= turalist.org/observations/389095028" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist= .org/observations/389095028">Delaware Skipper</a> - 1</li><li><a href=3D"ht= tps://www.inaturalist.org/observations/389129856" originalSrc=3D"https://ww= w.inaturalist.org/observations/389129856">Little Glassywing</a> - 1</li></u= l><div>Good butterflying,</div><div>Ryan Chaffee</div><div>Cary, NC</div></= div></div> --0000000000007b4b5b06587a80a6-- |
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