After waiting out foggy/cloudy skies today until nearly
10:30, the 8 of us on the CBS field trip to Holly Shelter Game Land,
Pender Co., NC, were treated to warm and sunny skies the rest of the
day. We had a great day of botanizing, birding, butterflying, etc.,
finding all of our target species. Attending were Jeff Pippen, Will
Cook, Parker Backstrom, Randy Emmitt, Pat Coin, Roger Rittmaster, Andy
Webb, and myself. Here is our list:
Zebra Swallowtail 3
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 20
Spicebush Swallowtail 8
Palamedes Swallowtail 350 everywhere, nectaring on Cirsium horridulum
Cloudless Sulphur 8
Frosted Elfin 15 mostly fresh females, ovipositing on Baptisia tinctoria
Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
azure sp. 2
LITTLE METALMARK 1 early
Variegated Fritillary 6
Pearl Crescent 45
Red Admiral 1
American Lady 10
Common Buckeye 5
Southern Pearly-eye 2
Carolina Satyr 12
Gemmed Satyr 2
Monarch 1
Silver-spotted Skipper 8
Northern Cloudywing 2
Southern Cloudywing 12
Juvenal’s Duskywing 1 worn
Horace’s Duskywing 1 male
duskywing sp. 1 fresh, brief look
Clouded Skipper 3
Dusted Skipper 12
Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 1
Reversed Roadside-Skipper 10 record one-day state count
Dusky Roadside-Skipper 9 record one-day state count
Yucca Giant-Skipper 2 fairly worn females; late in brood
Harry LeGrand
Raleigh, NC
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