Seventeen people participated in the Ashe County butterfly field trip
sponsored by the Triad Chapter of the Carolina Butterfly Society.
Participants included 11 members. We also had 6 neighbors with us, including
two children, during the morning. Member Judy Scurry of Winston-Salem, who
owns property on the New River in Ashe County, organized and hosted an
excellent day in a beautiful setting in very comfortable weather. Thanks to
her for sharing her home and hospitality.
The group met at Trinity
Episcopal Church, the ³Church of the Fresco,² in
Glendale Springs just off
the Blue Ridge Parkway. We butterflied the grassy
lawn, field edges and a
flower garden adjacent to the church property next
to a nearby gift shop. We
then proceeded to the New River State Park Wagoner
Rd. access where we found
a lot of butterflies in the native plant butterfly
garden and along a gravel
path near the river.
We had a picnic lunch on Judyıs porch overlooking a
spectacular view of the
New river. Following lunch, we spent some time along
the river and then
checked out a power line cut nearby. We then returned to
the church parking
lot and spent another 45 minutes looking for butterflies
in the nearby
flower garden. Thanks to Jim Nottke for recording the
butterflies we saw
during the day. Our totals included 90 adult butterflies
and 1 caterpillar
of 19 species. Jimıs list is below:
Column 1 Church
of the Frescos
Column 2 New River State Park and Scurry Neighborhood
Column 3 Powerline Cut
0 1 0 = 1 Eastern Tiger
Swallowtail
0 1 2 = 3 Cabbage White
3 4 2 = 9
Orange Sulphur
0 0 1 = 1 Cloudless Sulphur
0 0 3 =
3 American Copper
5 6 8 = 19 Eastern
Tailed-Blue
0 1 0 = 1 Appalachian Azure
0 0 3 = 3
Azure sp
2 6 4 = 12 Great Spangled Fritillary
1 3 0 = 4
Aphrodite Fritillary
0 4 0 = 4 Eastern Comma
0 2 0
= 2 American Lady
0 1 0 = 1
Painted Lady
0 0 1 = 1 Common Buckeye
0 7 0 = 7
Common Wood Nymph
3 11 2 = 16 Silver Spotted Skipper (plus one caterpillar)
0 1 0 = 1 Common Sootywing
0 1 0 = 1
Fiery Skipper
0 4 0 = 1 Sachem
19 species
90 adult butterflies
1 caterpillar
Participants: Dennis Burnette, Lynn
Burnette, Charlie Cameron, Helen
DeCasper, Gregg Morris, Jim Nottke, Judy
Scurry, Lois Schneider, Gene
Schepker, David Sink, and Hazel Sink, plus 6 of
Judyıs neighbors.
Dennis Burnette
Greensboro, NC
deburnette@triad.rr.com
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