On Saturday, June 23, Nancy & Bob Baldwin, Charlie Cameron, Elizabeth Riggs and I spent 9 hours under partly cloudy skies and 64 to 79 degree temperatures looking for butterflies. It had rained an inch or so the evening before the count, so there should have been plenty of nectar in the many flowers we looked at trying to find butterflies. We added no new species to the 78 species previously reported for Forsyth County.

1 Pipevine Swallowtail
1 Black Swallowtail
1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
9 Cabbage White
2 Orange Sulphur
1 Sleepy Orange
1 Harvester (they seem to be everywhere this year)
2 Coral Hairstreak (both on the same butterfly weed plant)
1 Juniper Hairstreak
1 Gray Hairstreak (sipping sap from a just-deadheaded daylily stem)
11 Eastern Tailed-Blue
1 Summer Azure
1 American Snout
1 Variegated Fritillary
3 Great Spangled Fritillary
23 Pearl Crescent
1 Question Mark
5 American Lady
2 Common Buckeye
1 Monarch (very fresh, my first for the year)
3 Silver-Spotted Skipper
1 Horace's Duskywing
1 Common Checkered-Skipper
1 Common Sootywing
12 Fiery Skipper
6 Sachem

26 species
92 individuals

Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC 27040
nottke@ols.net