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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2026 13:52:11 -0500 From: Harry LeGrand (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: A few field butterflies near Raleigh, Wake Co., NC -- Nov. 8 |
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--000000000000970bdc065fc8585e Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Folks, At the tail end of a good birding outing along Mid-Pines Road and several other roads passing through the N.C. State U. farm fields, it was mild enough (nearing 60 degrees) for Lori Arent and I to start seeing butterflies. Sadly, all of the white butterflies are now Cabbage Whites; no Checkered Whites have been found there in a few weeks, but 2026 was a great year for the latter there. Here is our brief list, on a typically sunny day for summer-fall 2026: Orange Sulphur 3 Sleepy Orange 1 Cabbage White 3 Variegated Fritillary 4 Common Buckeye 3 Common Checkered-Skipper 12 Fiery Skipper 20 So, nothing to get excited about, but good to see close to 50 individuals on so few flowers, essentially all on yellow non-native composites -- Common Dandelion and Cat's-ear. Harry LeGrand Raleigh PS -- We did see a few good birds -- a N. Harrier in a field, two Common Ravens, 5 Horned Larks in the scope along Inwood Road, and photo views of a White-crowned Sparrow and a Vesper Sparrow. Lori may have good photos of a few of these on our eBird list later today. --000000000000970bdc065fc8585e Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">Folks,<div><br></div><div>At the tail end= of a good birding outing along Mid-Pines Road and several=C2=A0other roads= passing through the N.C. State U. farm fields, it was mild enough (nearing= 60 degrees) for Lori Arent and I to start seeing butterflies. Sadly, all o= f the white butterflies are now Cabbage Whites; no Checkered Whites have be= en found there in a few weeks, but 2026 was a great year for the latter the= re. Here is our brief list, on a typically sunny day for summer-fall 2026:<= /div><div><br></div><div>Orange Sulphur=C2=A0 3</div><div>Sleepy Orange=C2= =A0 1</div><div>Cabbage White=C2=A0 3</div><div>Variegated=C2=A0Fritillary= =C2=A0 4</div><div>Common Buckeye=C2=A0 3</div><div>Common Checkered-Skippe= r=C2=A0 12</div><div>Fiery Skipper 20</div><div><br></div><div>So, nothing = to get excited about, but good to see close to 50 individuals on so few flo= wers, essentially all on yellow non-native composites -- Common Dandelion a= nd Cat's-ear.</div><div><br></div><div>Harry LeGrand</div><div>Raleigh<= /div><div><br></div><div>PS -- We did see a few good birds -- a N. Harrier = in a field, two Common Ravens, 5 Horned Larks in the scope along Inwood Roa= d, and photo views of a White-crowned Sparrow and a Vesper Sparrow. Lori ma= y have good photos of a few of these on our eBird list later today.=C2=A0= =C2=A0</div></div> </div> --000000000000970bdc065fc8585e-- |
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