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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:10:02 -0400 From: Ryan Chaffee (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Orange County, NC leps, 8/20 |
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--000000000000743b56065994393c Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Good afternoon butterfliers, Yesterday morning, I stopped by the NC Botanical Garden. Popular nectar plants were Starry Rosinweed, Sticky Rosinweed, and New York Ironweed. Didn't get the skipper diversity I was hoping for (both grass and spreadwing), but some decent leps nonetheless. Here is my full list: - Cloudless Sulphur - 3 - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 9 - Spicebush Swallowtail - 4 - Pipevine Swallowtail - 3 - Juniper Hairstreak <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/392981488> - 1 - Pearl Crescent - 1 - Silvery Checkerspot - 1 - Hackberry Emperor - 1 - Variegated Fritillary - 1 - Red-spotted Purple - 1 - Silver-spotted Skipper - 19 - Fiery Skipper - 8 - Sachem - 1 - Clouded Skipper - 3 - Zabulon Skipper - 1 Good butterflying, Ryan Chaffee Cary, NC --000000000000743b56065994393c Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Good afternoon butterfliers,</div><div><br></div><div= >Yesterday morning, I stopped by the NC Botanical Garden. Popular nectar pl= ants were Starry Rosinweed, Sticky Rosinweed, and New York Ironweed. Didn&#= 39;t get the skipper diversity I was hoping for (both grass and spreadwing)= , but some decent leps nonetheless. Here is my full list:</div><div><ul><li= >Cloudless Sulphur - 3</li></ul><ul><li>Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 9</li><= li>Spicebush Swallowtail - 4</li><li>Pipevine Swallowtail - 3</li></ul><ul>= <li><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/392981488" original= Src=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/392981488">Juniper Hairstre= ak</a> - 1</li></ul><ul><li>Pearl Crescent - 1</li><li>Silvery Checkerspot = - 1</li><li>Hackberry Emperor - 1</li><li>Variegated Fritillary - 1</li><li= >Red-spotted Purple - 1</li></ul><ul><li>Silver-spotted Skipper - 19</li><l= i>Fiery Skipper - 8</li><li>Sachem - 1</li><li>Clouded Skipper - 3</li><li>= Zabulon Skipper - 1</li></ul><div><br></div><div>Good butterflying,</div><d= iv>Ryan Chaffee</div><div>Cary, NC</div></div></div> --000000000000743b56065994393c-- |
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