On Saturday, June 4, Bob & Nancy Baldwin, Ruth Young, Charlie Cameron,
Elizabeth Riggs, and I had a good day counting at the usual sites in Yadkin
County. The weather started overcast, but cleared later in the morning,
starting out about 70 degrees and rising to steamy mid-80s. Numbers were
low, primarily because the plants and bugs are a couple weeks late this
year; no butterflyweed or dogbane in bloom, no Buckeye, Red-Spotted Purple,
or Common Checkered Skipper - in fact few skippers at all. Of those
butterfly species that we did see, the numbers were typical of previous
years and we saw two species not previously reported in Yadkin County;
Harvester and Painted Lady.
We also saw the usual assortment of snakes, turtles, lizards, and toads.
13 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
1 Spicebush Swallowtail
12 Cabbage White new county high number
2 Clouded Sulphur
18 Orange Sulphur new county high number
4 Sleepy Orange
2 HARVESTER new county species
9 Eastern Tailed-Blue
12 Azure
1 American Snout
7 Great Spangled Fritillary
1 Silvery Checkerspot
3 Pearl Crescent
1 Questionmark
1 Eastern Comma
6 American Lady
1 Painted Lady new county species
2 Red Admiral
2 Viceroy
2 Hackberry Emperor
1 Northern Pearlyeye
14 Carolina Satyr new county high number
7 Little Wood Satyr new county high number
1 Common Wood Nymph
10 Silver Spotted Skipper
2 Least Skipper
1 Fiery Skipper
1 Crossline Skipper
2 Sachem
9 Zabulon Skipper
30 species
147 adults
Jim Nottke
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