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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:04:07 -0400
From: Jeff Pippen (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...>
Subject: Mebane (Alamance Co., NC) butterflies 9/20/2026


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Butterfliers,

While we anxiously await the forecasted rain this coming week, I ran 3 =
Pollard Walk butterfly surveys for the Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring =
Program today in Mebane, NC. Still very good activity and numbers =
showing up along the survey routes and at the nearby pollinator gardens.

Pipevine Swallowtail 1
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
Black Swallowtail 1=20

Cabbage White 2
Cloudless Sulphur 9
Sleepy Orange 9

Gray Hairstreak 1
Red-banded Hairstreak 1
Eastern Tailed-Blue 10
Summer Azure 1

Monarch 6
Variegated Fritillary 5
Pearl Crescent 22
American Lady 1
Painted Lady 1
Common Buckeye 21
Hackberry Emperor 2
Carolina Satyr 3

Silver-spotted Skipper 7
Common Checkered-Skipper 7
Clouded Skipper 9
Fiery Skipper 49
Sachem 8
Crossline Skipper 3
Ocola Skipper 1
Least Skipper 1

Now, give us some rain this week, and then give us a few more weeks with =
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Good Butterflying,
Jeff
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Jeffrey S. Pippen
Mebane, NC
Research Specialist, Georgetown University
Director, Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring Program =
<https://www.jeffpippen.com/butterflies/carolinasbmp/carbmp-protocols.htm>=
| N. Am. Butterfly Monitoring Network =
<https://www.thebutterflynetwork.org/> | Jeff=E2=80=99s Nature Pages =
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line-break: after-white-space;">Butterfliers,<div><br></div><div>While =
we anxiously await the forecasted rain this coming week, I ran 3 Pollard =
Walk butterfly surveys for the Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring Program =
today in Mebane, NC. &nbsp;Still very good activity and numbers showing =
up along the survey routes and at the nearby pollinator =
gardens.</div><div><br></div><div>Pipevine Swallowtail =
1</div><div>Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1</div><div>Black Swallowtail =
1&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Cabbage White 2</div><div>Cloudless =
Sulphur 9</div><div>Sleepy Orange 9</div><div><br></div><div>Gray =
Hairstreak 1</div><div>Red-banded Hairstreak 1</div><div>Eastern =
Tailed-Blue 10</div><div>Summer Azure 1</div><div><br></div><div>Monarch =
6</div><div>Variegated Fritillary 5</div><div>Pearl Crescent =
22</div><div>American Lady 1</div><div>Painted Lady 1</div><div>Common =
Buckeye 21</div><div>Hackberry Emperor 2</div><div>Carolina Satyr =
3</div><div><br></div><div>Silver-spotted Skipper 7</div><div>Common =
Checkered-Skipper 7</div><div>Clouded Skipper 9</div><div>Fiery Skipper =
49</div><div>Sachem 8</div><div>Crossline Skipper 3</div><div>Ocola =
Skipper 1</div><div>Least Skipper 1</div><div><br></div><div>Now, give =
us some rain this week, and then give us a few more weeks with periods =
of 80 degrees and sun &nbsp;=E2=98=80=EF=B8=8F =
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Butterflying,</div><div>Jeff</div><div>
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Pippen</div><div>Mebane, NC</div><div>Research Specialist, Georgetown =
University</div><div>Director,&nbsp;<a =
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&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://www.thebutterflynetwork.org/">N. Am. =
Butterfly Monitoring Network</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;| &nbsp;&nbsp;<a =
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