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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:41:55 -0400 From: Ryan Chaffee (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Onslow County, NC leps - 9/16 |
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--0000000000000c2fd3065bb2245c Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Good afternoon butterfliers, Yesterday, Jeff Pippen and I went to various sites in Onslow County to target some of the rarer coastal skippers and other butterflies. We had a great day with *33 butterfly species* and lots of unique plants, including an undescribed Allium species <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400856440>, closely related to Nodding Onion. Here is our full list of butterflies: - Palamedes Swallowtail - 27 - Cloudless Sulphur - 32 - Sleepy Orange - 18 - Gray Hairstreak - 6 - Red-banded Hairstreak - 36 - *Great Purple Hairstreak <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400942118> - 11 *- great numbers! - Eastern Tailed-Blue - 2 - *Little Metalmark <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400866327> - 1* - Monarch - 3 - Variegated Fritillary - 5 - Viceroy - 5 - Red-spotted Purple - 1 - Common Buckeye - 51 - *Mourning Cloak - 1* - flyby - Pearl Crescent - 16 - Question Mark - 1 - Common Wood-Nymph - 5 - Carolina Satyr - 3 - including one caught by an Eastern Pondhawk mid-observation :( - Horace's Duskywing - 2 - Common/White Checkered-Skipper - 3 - all female - Silver-spotted Skipper - 5 - Fiery Skipper - 12 - Whirlabout - 7 - *Yehl Skipper <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400945060> - 5* - Clouded Skipper - 23 - *Twin-spot Skipper <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400941624> - 2 *- male courting female - Dun Skipper - 4 - *Byssus Skipper <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400942417> - 2* - one very tattered <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400945930> - Dion Skipper <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400945820> - 4 - Tawny-edged Skipper - 8 - including one mating pair <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400945372> - Swarthy Skipper - 4 - Ocola Skipper - 1 - very low number for the time of year - *Southern Skipperling <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400943736> - 2* Good butterflying, Ryan Chaffee Cary, NC --0000000000000c2fd3065bb2245c 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,=20 Jeff Pippen and I went to various sites in Onslow County to target some=20 of the rarer coastal skippers and other butterflies. We had a great day=20 with <b>33 butterfly species</b> and lots of unique plants, including an un= described <a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400856440" or= iginalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400856440" target=3D"= _blank">Allium species</a>, closely related to Nodding Onion. Here is our f= ull list of butterflies:</div><div><ul><li>Palamedes Swallowtail - 27</li><= /ul><ul><li>Cloudless Sulphur - 32</li><li>Sleepy Orange - 18</li></ul><ul>= <li>Gray Hairstreak - 6</li><li>Red-banded Hairstreak - 36</li><li><b><a hr= ef=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400942118" originalSrc=3D"ht= tps://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400942118" target=3D"_blank">Great P= urple Hairstreak</a> - 11 </b>- great numbers!</li><li>Eastern Tailed-Blue = - 2</li></ul><ul><li><b><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations= /400866327" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4008663= 27" target=3D"_blank">Little Metalmark</a> - 1</b></li></ul><div><ul><li>Mo= narch - 3</li><li>Variegated Fritillary - 5</li><li>Viceroy - 5</li><li>Red= -spotted Purple - 1</li><li>Common Buckeye - 51</li><li><b>Mourning Cloak -= 1</b> - flyby</li><li>Pearl Crescent - 16</li><li>Question Mark - 1</li><l= i>Common Wood-Nymph - 5</li><li>Carolina Satyr - 3 - including one caught b= y an Eastern Pondhawk mid-observation :(</li></ul></div><ul><li>Horace'= s Duskywing - 2</li><li>Common/White Checkered-Skipper - 3 - all female</li= ><li>Silver-spotted Skipper - 5</li><li>Fiery Skipper - 12</li><li>Whirlabo= ut - 7</li><li><b><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/40094= 5060" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400945060" ta= rget=3D"_blank">Yehl Skipper</a> - 5</b></li><li>Clouded Skipper - 23</li><= li><b><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400941624" origin= alSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400941624" target=3D"_bla= nk">Twin-spot Skipper</a> - 2=C2=A0</b>- male courting female</li><li>Dun S= kipper - 4</li><li><b><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4= 00942417" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400942417= ">Byssus Skipper</a> - 2</b> - <a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/obser= vations/400945930" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/= 400945930">one very tattered</a></li><li><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist= .org/observations/400945820" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/obs= ervations/400945820" target=3D"_blank">Dion Skipper</a> - 4</li><li>Tawny-e= dged Skipper - 8 - including one <a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/obs= ervations/400945372" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observation= s/400945372" target=3D"_blank">mating pair</a></li><li>Swarthy Skipper - 4<= /li><li>Ocola Skipper - 1 - very low number for the time of year</li><li><b= ><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400943736" originalSrc= =3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400943736" target=3D"_blank">S= outhern Skipperling</a> - 2</b></li></ul><div>Good butterflying,</div><div>= Ryan Chaffee</div><div>Cary, NC</div></div><br></div> --0000000000000c2fd3065bb2245c-- |
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