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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 09:31:23 -0400 From: NICHOLAS FLANDERS (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: northeastern NC butterflies, 9/9-9/11/24 |
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--000000000000d701e60622145be2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A few days in the field in northeastern NC in the early part of last week yielded OK butterfly activity. Lots of nice plants at Voice of America G.L. took the spotlight instead of the butterflies; I enjoyed a double-digit count of Swarthy Skipper on 9/9 at that site. Lists below, Nick Flanders Portsmouth, VA 9/9/24, Voice of America Game Land, Beaufort Co., NC; main nectar sources were Brazilian vervain, joe-pye-weed, *Eupatorium *spp., *Carphephorus tomentosus*, & *Liatris *sp. Spicebush Swallowtail =E2=80=93 1 E. Tiger Swallowtail - 1 Dark swallowtail sp. =E2=80=93 2 Sleepy Orange - 2 Orange Sulphur =E2=80=93 2 Cloudless Sulphur =E2=80=93 7 Gray Hairstreak - 1 E. Tailed-Blue - 4 Variegated Fritillary =E2=80=93 3 Red-spotted Purple - 1 Common Buckeye =E2=80=93 15 + approx. 10 caterpillars on *Agalinis* Pearl Crescent =E2=80=93 2 Common Wood-Nymph =E2=80=93 3 Silver-spotted Skipper - 1 Fiery Skipper =E2=80=93 6 Whirlabout =E2=80=93 1 Photo=E2=80=99d Swarthy Skipper =E2=80=93 14 photo=E2=80=99d Eufala Skipper =E2=80=93 1 Photo=E2=80=99d Ocola Skipper =E2=80=93 10 9/10/24, Shoups Landing Boating Access Area + nearby Mud Cr. via boat, Gates Co., NC; main nectar sources were pickerelweed & climbing hempweed Palamedes Swallowtail =E2=80=93 3 E. Tiger Swallowtail - 1 Cloudless Sulphur =E2=80=93 3 Great Purple Hairstreak =E2=80=93 1 Common Buckeye =E2=80=93 9 Pearl Crescent =E2=80=93 4 Silver-spotted Skipper =E2=80=93 1 Fiery Skipper =E2=80=93 3 Little Glassywing =E2=80=93 1 Yehl Skipper =E2=80=93 1 Ocola Skipper =E2=80=93 1 9/11/24, Voice of America Game Land, Beaufort Co., NC Black Swallowtail =E2=80=93 1 Palamedes Swallowtail - 1 Spicebush Swallowtail - 1 Sleepy Orange - 2 Orange Sulphur =E2=80=93 1 Cloudless Sulphur - 3 E. Tailed-Blue =E2=80=93 1 Monarch - 1 Variegated Fritillary =E2=80=93 3 Red-spotted Purple =E2=80=93 1 Red Admiral - 1 Common Buckeye =E2=80=93 14 Pearl Crescent - 1 Common Wood-Nymph =E2=80=93 1 Silver-spotted Skipper =E2=80=93 1 Fiery Skipper =E2=80=93 6 Swarthy Skipper =E2=80=93 4 9/11/24, Weeping Mary Rd. (gravel portion), Bertie Co., NC; main nectar sources were late boneset, Brazilian vervain, and elephant=E2=80=99s-foot E. Tiger Swallowtail =E2=80=93 1 Sleepy Orange =E2=80=93 8 Cloudless Sulphur =E2=80=93 8 Red-banded Hairstreak =E2=80=93 1 Gray Hairstreak =E2=80=93 1 Summer Azure =E2=80=93 2 Am. Snout - 2 Variegated Fritillary =E2=80=93 1 Viceroy- 2 Red-spotted Purple - 2 Red Admiral - 1 Common Buckeye =E2=80=93 16 Pearl Crescent - 1 Silver-spotted Skipper =E2=80=93 5 Dun Skipper =E2=80=93 3 Fresh, photo=E2=80=99d Fiery Skipper =E2=80=93 14 Sachem =E2=80=93 1 Yehl Skipper =E2=80=93 2 Fresh, photo=E2=80=99d Clouded Skipper =E2=80=93 2 Ocola Skipper =E2=80=93 6 --000000000000d701e60622145be2 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-he= ight:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">A few days in the fi= eld in northeastern NC in the early part of last week yielded OK butterfly = activity. Lots of nice plants at Voice of America G.L. took the spotlight i= nstead of the butterflies; I enjoyed a double-digit count of Swarthy Skippe= r on 9/9 at that site. Lists below,</p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"marg= in:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif= "><br></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:11= 5%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Nick Flanders</p><p class= =3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;= font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Portsmouth, VA</p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" styl= e=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,s= ans-serif"><br></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-= height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">9/9/24, Voice of A= merica Game Land, Beaufort Co., NC; main nectar sources were Brazilian vervain, joe-pye-weed, <i>Eupatorium </i>spp.= , <i>Carphephorus tomentosus</i>, & <i>Liatris </i>sp.</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">=C2=A0</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Spicebush Swallowtail =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">E. Tiger Swallowtail - 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Dark swallowtail sp. =E2=80=93 2</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Sleepy Orange - 2</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Orange Sulphur =E2=80=93 2 =C2=A0=C2= =A0=C2=A0<i></i></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Cloudless Sulphur =E2=80=93 7</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Gray Hairstreak - 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">E. Tailed-Blue - 4</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Variegated Fritillary =E2=80=93 3 =C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Red-spotted Purple - 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Common Buckeye =E2=80=93 15=C2=A0=C2= =A0 =C2=A0+ approx. 10 caterpillars on <i>Agalinis</i></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Pearl Crescent =E2=80=93 2</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Common Wood-Nymph =E2=80=93 3</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Silver-spotted Skipper - 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Fiery Skipper =E2=80=93 6=C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0 <i></i></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Whirlabout =E2=80=93 1 =C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0Photo=E2=80=99d</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Swarthy Skipper =E2=80=93 14 =C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0photo=E2=80=99d<i></i></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Eufala Skipper =E2=80=93 1 =C2=A0=C2= =A0=C2=A0Photo=E2=80=99d</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Ocola Skipper =E2=80=93 10=C2=A0=C2= =A0 </p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">=C2=A0</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">9/10/24, Shoups Landing Boating Acces= s Area + nearby Mud Cr. via boat, Gates Co., NC; main nectar sources were pickerelweed & climbi= ng hempweed</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">=C2=A0</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Palamedes Swallowtail =E2=80=93 3</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">E. Tiger Swallowtail - 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Cloudless Sulphur =E2=80=93 3</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Great Purple Hairstreak =E2=80=93 1<i= ></i></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Common Buckeye =E2=80=93 9<i></i></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Pearl Crescent =E2=80=93 4<i></i></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Silver-spotted Skipper =E2=80=93 1</p= > <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Fiery Skipper =E2=80=93 3</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Little Glassywing =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Yehl Skipper =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Ocola Skipper =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">=C2=A0</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">9/11/24, Voice of America Game Land, = Beaufort Co., NC</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">=C2=A0</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Black Swallowtail =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Palamedes Swallowtail - 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Spicebush Swallowtail - 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Sleepy Orange - 2</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Orange Sulphur =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Cloudless Sulphur - 3</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">E. Tailed-Blue =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Monarch - 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Variegated Fritillary =E2=80=93 3</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Red-spotted Purple =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Red Admiral - 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Common Buckeye =E2=80=93 14 =C2=A0=C2= =A0=C2=A0<i></i></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Pearl Crescent - 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Common Wood-Nymph =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Silver-spotted Skipper =E2=80=93 1 = =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Fiery Skipper =E2=80=93 6</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Swarthy Skipper =E2=80=93 4</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">=C2=A0</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">9/11/24, Weeping Mary Rd. (gravel por= tion), Bertie Co., NC; main nectar sources were late boneset, Brazilian vervain, and elephant=E2= =80=99s-foot</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">=C2=A0</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">E. Tiger Swallowtail =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Sleepy Orange =E2=80=93 8</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Cloudless Sulphur =E2=80=93 8</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Red-banded Hairstreak =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Gray Hairstreak =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Summer Azure =E2=80=93 2</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Am. Snout - 2</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Variegated Fritillary =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Viceroy- 2</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Red-spotted Purple - 2</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Red Admiral - 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Common Buckeye =E2=80=93 16</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Pearl Crescent - 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Silver-spotted Skipper =E2=80=93 5</p= > <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Dun Skipper =E2=80=93 3 =C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0Fresh, photo=E2=80=99d</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Fiery Skipper =E2=80=93 14</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Sachem =E2=80=93 1</p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Yehl Skipper =E2=80=93 2 =C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0Fresh, photo=E2=80=99d<i></i></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Clouded Skipper =E2=80=93 2<i></i></p= > <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si= ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Ocola Skipper =E2=80=93 6</p></div> --000000000000d701e60622145be2-- |
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