On Sunday, 8/22, we (Keith Parker, Bob & Nancy Baldwin, Charlie Cameron,
Jim Nottke, Rachel __) had a very slow start on a cool overcast morning,
but shortly after noon the clouds partly parted and the butterflies
appeared in large numbers as temperatures warmed into the low 80s. We
started at the main Allison Woods property, then moved on to the property
south of the South Yadkin River (new area to us), and then onto the
Greenway north of Statesville, which has turned into a very nice
butterflying area, bordered by native weeds of every sort. Beyond
butterflies, we encountered box turtles and a Black-Etched Prominent
caterpillar.
1 Pipevine Swallowtail
5 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
3 Spicebush Swallowtail
4 Orange Sulphur
26 Cloudless Sulphur
1 Little Yellow
3 Sleepy Orange
10 Eastern Tailed Blue
15 Azure
1 American Snout
1 Variegated Fritillary
1 Great Spangled Fritillary
8 Silvery Checkerspot
26 Pearl Crescent
2 Eastern Comma
1 American Lady
1 Red Admiral
3 Common Buckeye
50+ Red-Spotted Purple
1 Viceroy
5 Hackberry Emperor
21 Northern Pearly Eye
2 Gemmed Satyr
500+ Carolina Satyr
3 Common Wood Nymph
5 Silver Spotted Skipper
1 Hayhursts Scallopwing
5 Common Checkered Skipper
150+ Clouded Skipper
6 Least Skipper
1 Tawny-Edged Skipper
1 Southern Broken-Dash
35 Sachem
28 Zabulon Skipper
1 Dun Skipper
35 species
927 Adults
Report by Jim Nottke.
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