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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:50:25 -0500 From: Jeff Pippen (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Orange County, NC butterflies 10 Nov 2026 |
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--Apple-Mail=_ED6FB8DE-F386-4A0B-98E6-BDE2D6492B65 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_B04E3D94-E28C-44B8-9ED6-4DE21840B787" --Apple-Mail=_B04E3D94-E28C-44B8-9ED6-4DE21840B787 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Butterfliers, Today, I was joined by Leah Fowler, Ava Mackay-Smith, and Louisa Belk = for butterfly surveys at a couple of different sites in Orange County, = NC. We enjoyed a spectacular weather day, as Harry mentioned in a = previous email, with sunny skies, low humidity, and temps near 70. We = ran 4 surveys for the Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring Program. Even = though the official monitoring season ended Nov 1st, all surveys = conducted in the =E2=80=9Coff season=E2=80=9D when weather conditions = meet program protocols (e.g. sunny and at least 60 degrees or so) = provide excellent data. Many thanks to Leah for compiling today=E2=80=99s= sightings. While we found no surprises, it was a great day to be outside, collect = some data, enjoy the fall colors, and still see over 50 individual = butterflies! Sulphurs & Whites: Sleepy Orange: 5 Orange Sulphur: 2 Cloudless Sulphur: 2 Gossamer-wings: Eastern Tailed-Blue: 1 Brushfoots: Variegated Fritillary: 3 Common Buckeye: 18 Pearl Crescent: 7 Skippers: Common Checkered-Skipper: 18 Fiery Skipper: 3 Good Butterflying, Jeff -- 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 = <https://www.jeffpippen.com/> --Apple-Mail=_B04E3D94-E28C-44B8-9ED6-4DE21840B787 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 <html aria-label=3D"message body"><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" = content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"></head><body = style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = line-break: = after-white-space;"><div>Butterfliers,</div><div><br></div><div>Today, I = was joined by Leah Fowler, Ava Mackay-Smith, and Louisa Belk for = butterfly surveys at a couple of different sites in Orange County, NC. = We enjoyed a spectacular weather day, as Harry mentioned in a = previous email, with sunny skies, low humidity, and temps near 70. = We ran 4 surveys for the Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring Program. = Even though the official monitoring season ended Nov 1st, all = surveys conducted in the =E2=80=9Coff season=E2=80=9D when weather = conditions meet program protocols (e.g. sunny and at least 60 degrees or = so) provide excellent data. Many thanks to Leah for compiling = today=E2=80=99s sightings.</div><div><br></div><div>While we found no = surprises, it was a great day to be outside, collect some data, enjoy = the fall colors, and still see over 50 individual = butterflies!</div><div><br></div><div><p dir=3D"ltr" = id=3D"docs-internal-guid-9313efb8-7fff-9302-3fab-8a6f7dd0c715" = style=3D"font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times = New Roman, serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; = font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sulphurs & = Whites:</span></p><ul style=3D"font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;" class=3D"MailOutline"><li= dir=3D"ltr" aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-variant-ligatures: = normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Sleepy Orange: 5</span></p></li><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; = font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Orange Sulphur: 2</span></p></li><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; = font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Cloudless Sulphur: 2</span></p></li></ul><p dir=3D"ltr" = style=3D"font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times = New Roman, serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; = font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Gossamer-wings:</span></p><ul style=3D"font-size: medium; = margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;" = class=3D"MailOutline"><li dir=3D"ltr" aria-level=3D"1" = style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New = Roman, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: = normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; = margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Eastern Tailed-Blue: 1</span></p></li></ul><p dir=3D"ltr" = style=3D"font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times = New Roman, serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; = font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Brushfoots:</span></p><ul style=3D"font-size: medium; = margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;" = class=3D"MailOutline"><li dir=3D"ltr" aria-level=3D"1" = style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New = Roman, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: = normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; = margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Variegated Fritillary: 3</span></p></li></ul><ul = style=3D"font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = padding-inline-start: 48px;" class=3D"MailOutline"><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; = font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Common Buckeye: 18</span></p></li><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; = font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Pearl Crescent: 7</span></p></li></ul><p dir=3D"ltr" = style=3D"font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times = New Roman, serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; = font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Skippers:</span></p><ul style=3D"font-size: medium; = margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;" = class=3D"MailOutline"><li dir=3D"ltr" aria-level=3D"1" = style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New = Roman, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: = normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; = margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Common Checkered-Skipper: 18</span></p></li><li dir=3D"ltr" = aria-level=3D"1" style=3D"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; = font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; = font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; = vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir=3D"ltr" = role=3D"presentation" style=3D"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; = margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt; = font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; = font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; = font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: = pre-wrap;">Fiery Skipper: 3</span></p></li></ul></div><br>Good = Butterflying,<div>Jeff<br><div> <meta charset=3D"UTF-8"><div dir=3D"auto" style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, = 0, 0); 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