The 4th Annual Southern Lake Norman (Mecklenburg County) 4th of July
Butterfly count was held last week on 8-19-04.
We (Sudie Daves, Kathleen Sweaney, Rob VanEpps, Beth Henry) had a
really nice partly cloudy, slightly breezy day. We visited 5 sites:
Latta Plantation Nature Preserve, Cowan's Ford Wildlife Refuge, a
butterfly bush planting on McCoy Road, David Waymer Flying Fields, and
the Wallace Farm. The following species were counted:
2 Black Swallowtail
15 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
3 Spicebush Swallowtail
12 Checkered White
1 Cabbage White
4 Orange Sulphur
5 Cloudless Sulpur
4 Sleepy Orange
1 Gray Hairstreak
20 Eastern Tailed-Blue
2 American Snout
1 Gulf Fritillary
5 Variegated Fritillary
2 Great Spangled Fritillary
3 Silvery Checkerspot
1 Pearl Crescent
3 Question Mark
2 American Lady
4 Common Buckeye
41 Red-Spotted Purple
7 Hackberry Emperor
2 Tawny Emperor
1 Southern Pearly-eye
7 Northern Pearly-eye
1 Creole Pearly-eye
3 Gemmed Satyr
148 Carolina Satyr
1 Common Wood Nymph
2 Monarch
39 Silver-spotted Skipper
4 Hoary Edge
3 Southern Cloudywing
1 Northern Cloudywing
3 Hayhurst's Scallopwing
3 Horace's Duskywing
8 Common Checkered-Skipper
8 Common Sootywing
1 Swarthy Skipper
3 Clouded Skipper
2 Least Skipper
29 Fiery Skipper
4 Crossline Skipper
1 Southern Broken-Dash
107 Sachem
9 Delaware Skipper
11 Zabulon Skipper
5 Dun Skipper
2 Ocola Skipper
546 individuals
48 species (1 more than last year!)
Report by Sudie E. Daves.
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