Folks,

The weather was great, 75-85 degrees under blue sky, but the butterfly counting was hard work. Bob & Nancy Baldwin, Charlie Cameron, Will Cook, Monica Nilsson, Ruth Young, and I spent 8.5 hours in a variety of thistle fields, A. tuberosa fields, road edges, river access park, and a couple nice dirt roads to come up with 33 species in the first Davie County butterfly count today, with 19 of them previously unreported in Davie County.

No snakes or bears, but a couple members of the group kept getting distracted by birds. The 10 Coral Hairstreaks, 14 Tawny Emperors, and 5 Lace-winged Roadside-Skippers seem noteworthy.

1 Pipevine Swallowtail
1 Zebra Swallowtail (very fresh)
3 E. Tiger Swallowtail
9 Cabbage White
3 Orange Sulphur
10 Coral Hairstreak (new county species)
1 Banded Hairstreak (new county species) (in the clutches of a crab spider) 1 Juniper Hairstreak (new county species)
5 Gray Hairstreak (new county species)
15 Eastern Tailed-Blue
1 Summer Azure (new county species)
8 American Snout
4 Variegated Fritillary
14 Great Spangled Fritillary (new county species)
11 Pearl Crescent
1 Anglewing spp
1 American Lady (new county species)
5 Painted Lady (new county species)
1 Common Buckeye
1 Red-spotted Purple
2 Hackberry Emperor (new county species)
14 Tawny Emperor
2 Little Wood Satyr (new county species)
6 Silver-spotted Skipper (new county species)
5 Hoary Edge (new county species)
2 Southern Cloudywing (new county species)
6 Northern Cloudywing (new county species)
3 Common Sootywing (new county species)
10 Crossline Skipper (new county species)
6 Sachem
1 Delaware Skipper (new county species)
2 Dun Skipper (new county species)
5 Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper (new county species)
4 Eufala Skipper (new county species)

33 species with 164 individual adults

Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC 27040
nottke@ols.net

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