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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 15:02:16 -0400 From: Ryan Chaffee (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Orange County, NC leps - 9/4 |
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--000000000000cf39e8065aace8e7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Good afternoon butterfliers, This morning, Leah Fowler and I ran two Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring Program surveys at Bluestem Conservation Cemetery under clear skies and hot temps. Monarchs put on a great show, while grass skippers were low in diversity and spreadwings were uncooperative for ID. Here is our full list of 25 species, excluding unidentified leps: - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 9 - Pipevine Swallowtail - 1 - Sleepy Orange - 18 - Cloudless Sulphur - 10 - Eastern Tailed-Blue - 24 - Summer Azure - 4 - Gray Hairstreak - 3 - Red-banded Hairstreak - 3 - *Monarch - 49 - wow!* - Variegated Fritillary - 5 - Great Spangled Fritillary - 2 - American Lady - 2 - Red Admiral - 1 - Red-spotted Purple - 1 - Common Buckeye - 30 - Pearl Crescent - 54 - Hackberry Emperor - 1 - Silver-spotted Skipper - 1 - Common Checkered-Skipper - 9 - Fiery Skipper - 13 - Sachem - 8 - Crossline Skipper - 5 - Swarthy Skipper - 1 - Zabulon Skipper - 3 - Little Glassywing - 1 Afterwards, I stopped by the NC Botanical Garden for extra butterflies. It was blazing hot by now, and butterfly activity was a bit lower than I'd hoped, but I at least picked up a few different species from Bluestem, bringing my total up to 29 species for today. Here is my list from there: - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3 - Pipevine Swallowtail - 1 - Black Swallowtail - 1 - Sleepy Orange - 7 - Cloudless Sulphur - 2 - Eastern Tailed-Blue - 12 - Gray Hairstreak - 2 - Monarch - 5 - Common Buckeye - 5 - Pearl Crescent - 5 - Carolina Satyr - 1 - Silver-spotted Skipper - 7 - Fiery Skipper - 18 - Clouded Skipper - 1 - Least Skipper - 1 Good butterflying, Ryan Chaffee Cary, NC --000000000000cf39e8065aace8e7 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= >This morning, Leah Fowler and I ran two Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring Pro= gram surveys at Bluestem Conservation Cemetery under clear skies and hot te= mps. Monarchs put on a great show, while grass skippers were low in diversi= ty and spreadwings were uncooperative for ID. Here is our full list of 25 s= pecies, excluding unidentified leps:</div><div><ul><li>Eastern Tiger Swallo= wtail - 9</li><li>Pipevine Swallowtail - 1</li></ul><ul><li>Sleepy Orange -= 18</li><li>Cloudless Sulphur - 10</li></ul><ul><li>Eastern Tailed-Blue - 2= 4</li><li>Summer Azure - 4</li><li>Gray Hairstreak - 3</li><li>Red-banded H= airstreak - 3</li></ul><ul><li><b>Monarch - 49 - wow!</b></li><li>Variegate= d Fritillary - 5</li><li>Great Spangled Fritillary - 2</li><li>American Lad= y - 2</li><li>Red Admiral - 1</li><li>Red-spotted Purple - 1</li><li>Common= Buckeye - 30</li><li>Pearl Crescent - 54</li><li>Hackberry Emperor - 1</li= ></ul><ul><li>Silver-spotted Skipper - 1</li><li>Common Checkered-Skipper -= 9</li><li>Fiery Skipper - 13</li><li>Sachem - 8</li><li>Crossline Skipper = - 5</li><li>Swarthy Skipper - 1</li><li>Zabulon Skipper - 3</li><li>Little = Glassywing - 1</li></ul><div>Afterwards, I stopped by the NC Botanical Gard= en for extra butterflies. It was blazing hot by now, and butterfly activity= was a bit lower than I'd hoped, but I at least picked up a few differe= nt species from Bluestem, bringing my total up to 29 species for today. Her= e is my list from there:</div><div><ul><li>Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3</l= i><li>Pipevine Swallowtail - 1</li><li>Black Swallowtail - 1=C2=A0</li></ul= ><ul><li>Sleepy Orange - 7</li><li>Cloudless Sulphur - 2</li></ul><ul><li>E= astern Tailed-Blue - 12</li><li>Gray Hairstreak - 2</li></ul><ul><li>Monarc= h - 5</li><li>Common Buckeye - 5</li><li>Pearl Crescent - 5</li><li>Carolin= a Satyr - 1</li></ul><ul><li>Silver-spotted Skipper - 7</li><li>Fiery Skipp= er - 18</li><li>Clouded Skipper - 1</li><li>Least Skipper - 1</li></ul><div= >Good butterflying,</div><div>Ryan Chaffee</div><div>Cary, NC</div></div></= div></div> --000000000000cf39e8065aace8e7-- |
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