Davie County Foray Results CBS Triad Chapter
The Triad Chapter of the Carolina Butterfly Society conducted an exploratory
butterfly foray in Davie County, NC. Davie County, one of the smallest
counties in North Carolina, is a rural county in the foothills immediately
west of Forsyth County. Mocksville, the county seat, is about 20 miles
southwest of Winston-Salem just off I-40.
We werenąt sure what we would find because very little butterflying activity
has occurred in Davie County. In preparation for our exploratory trip, we
identified a few sites, including Camp Seven Springs, a Girl Scout camp near
Mocksville. (This site isnąt open to the general public, but got special
entry permission to be guided by Lynn Burnette, a Girl Scout staff member.)
In addition, we planned to check portions of Perkins Game Land and Alcoa
Game Land, both of which are hunting and fishing preserves administered by
the NC Wildlife Resources Commission.
On Saturday, June 11, four of us (Dennis Burnette, Jim Nottke, Gene
Schepker, and Lois Schneider) scouted our possible locations, spending short
periods in the Girl scout camp and on game lands in the southeast corner of
the county, as well as a few other likely looking spots. Our list of
butterflies for that day included:
3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
4 Coral Hairstreak
5 Eastern Tailed-Blue
3 Summer Azure
6 Great Spangled Fritillary
1 Pearl Crescent
2 Question Mark (county record)
8 Anglewing species
1 American Lady
3 Common Buckeye
18 Hackberry Emperor
2 Tawny Emperor
2 Silver Spotted Skipper
2 Northern Cloudywing
3 Horaces Duskywing (county record)
(This list was reported on Carolinaleps by Jim Nottke.)
On Saturday morning, June 14, the date of the Davie foray, eight of us from
the Triad Chapter of the Carolina Butterfly Society (Don Allemann, John
Barlow, Margaret Barlow, Dennis Burnette, Lynn Burnette, Charlie Cameron,
Jim Nottke, and Gene Schepker) returned to most of the sites we had scouted
three days earlier. The primary locations we visited were Seven Springs Girl
Scout camp, Perkins Game Land Site #1, Perkins Game Land Site# 2, Concord
Church Boat Landing, and Alcoa Game Land. We tallied 151 butterflies of 28
species. Here is our list:
2 Pipevine Swallowtail
2 Zebra Swallowtail
8 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
5 Spicebush Swallowtail
3 Cabbage White
1 Falcate Orangetip (county record) a bit late, but observer was
confident of ID
2 Orange Sulphur
2 Sleepy Orange (county record)
1 Coral Hairstreak
27 Eastern Tailed-Blue
1 Summer Azure
11 Great Spangled Fritillary
7 Pearl Crescent
1 Eastern Comma (county record)
1 American Lady
1 Red Admiral
10 Common Buckeye
40 Hackberry Emperor
6 Tawny Emperor
1 Northern Pearlyeye
1 Little Wood Satyr
1 Monarch (caterpillar)
1 Hoary Edge
5 Northern Cloudywing
1 Confused Cloudywing (county record)
4 Crossline Skipper
4 Little Glassywing (county record)
3 Zabulon Skipper (county record)
On Tuesday, June 17, Lynn Burnette and I returned to Camp Seven Springs to
lead bird and butterfly walks for the campers. We didnąt see as many
butterflies, but did add another county record. Here is the brief list:
3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
1 Spicebush Swallowtail
2 Summer Azure
1 Great Spangled Fritillary
1 American Lady
2 Hackberry Emperor
1 Tawny Emperor
1 Gemmed Satyr (county record)
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Total for June, 2008: 33 species (9 county records)
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