October Butterfly Walk Report
The Triad chapter of the Carolina Butterfly Society had a good turn out for
our October butterfly walk on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 12th. Our thanks go to
Brooks Mullane of the City of Greensboro for leading us on a tour of the
property that soon will become Keeley Park in Greensboro. Fifteen of us
explored the 138-acre property from 1:30 until 4:00 pm. The weather was
nearly perfect; we had a pleasant temperature of about 74 degrees with a 5
to 8 mph breeze and 45% humidity under a mostly sunny sky.
The informal butterfly garden, meadows, and lake edges had a lot of
butterfly activity. We ended with a count of 17 species of butterflies, not
a huge number but nice for October. Of course, we are in the waning days of
the butterfly season and only three days away from our areašs average first
day of frost. After the first frost (which isnšt predicted this week,
thankfully!), we wonšt see butterflies in any numbers again until spring,
mostly because there wonšt be many nectar sources left. Therefore, this was
a good event to finish our scheduled outdoor butterfly activities for 2008.
We will have indoor programs during the cold months.
Here is our list of butterflies for 10/12/08:
Clouded Sulphur 5
Cloudless Sulphur 2
Sleepy Orange 4
Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
łSummer˛ Azure 4
Variegated Fritillary 1
Great Spangled Fritillary 3
Pearl Crescent 8
Anglewing sp 1
Common Buckeye 23
Carolina Satyr 1
Monarch 2
Common Checkered Skipper 9
Clouded Skipper 11
Fiery Skipper 18
Sachem 2
Ocola Skipper 1
[plus half a dozen or so uncooperative skippers that didnšt give us good
looks]
Participants: John Barlow, Margaret Barlow, Ken Bridle, Dennis Burnette,
Helen DeCasper, Lynne Edel, Jim Eldrett, Pat Jackson, Brooks Mullane, Wendy
Schaitberger, Lois Schneider, Gene Schepker, Kathy Treanor, Lary Treanor,
Peggy Ware
Donšt forget our first indoor program of autumn on Wednesday, Oct. 15th.
Wešll see slides of butterflies of southeast Texas and northeast Mexico from
the Texas Butterfly Festival.
Dennis
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Dennis E. Burnette
7 Brownstone Lane
Greensboro, NC 27410
(336) 299-4342
deburnette@triad.rr.com
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