It Happened! 7 butterfliers gathered to create the first Yancey County
Count. We had 25 sp. number seen 140. Miles traveled 15; hours searched
6hrs; 6 locations of varying habitat in north Yancey County.
Quantity Butterfly
3 Pipevine Swallowtail
2 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
8 Cabbage White
12 Clouded Sulfur
1 Orange Sulfur
3 Cloudless Sulfur
1 Grey Hairstreak
1 Red-Banded Hairstreak
5 Eastern Tailed-Blue
1 Spring Azure
3 Great Spangled Fritillary
28 Pearl Crescent
3 Eastern Comma
1 Painted Lady
3 Red-spotted Purple
1 Northern Pearly-Eye
7 Carolina Satyr
1 Monarch
3 Silver-spotted Skipper
2 Clouded Skipper
5 Least Skipper
12 Fiery Skipper
32 Sachem
1 Zabulon Skipper
1 Dun Skipper
Participants:
Ruth Young
Gail Lankford
Beth Henry
Leah Henry
Ruth Godwin
Nancy Baldwin
Bob Baldwin
Report by Nancy Baldwin
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