The following butterflies were observed during the Transylvania
Butterfly Count on Thursday, August 16:
Pipevine Swallowtail 60
Black Swallowtail 1
E. Tiger Swallowtail 25
Spicebush Swallowtail 12
Cabbage White 10
Clouded Sulfur 5
Orange Sulfur 1
Cloudless Sulfur 5
Gray Hairstreak 1
Summer Azure 450
Eastern Tailed Blue 2
Variegated Fritillary 3
Diana Fritillary 4 (three females, one male)
Great Spangled Fritillary 2
Meadow Fritillary 1
Pearl Crescent 10
Common Buckeye 3
Red-spotted Purple 5
Carolina Saytr 2
Monarch 4
Silver Spotted Skipper 136
Horace's Duskywing 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
Clouded Skipper 4
Least Skipper 2
Fiery Skipper 5
Peck's Skipper 1
Little Glassywing 1
Sachem 4
Zabulon Skipper 12
In addition to the 30 species of butterflies, the following Odes were
observed:
Halloween Pennant 4
Ebony Jewelwing 4
Blue Dasher 1
Common Whitetail 1
Participants were Nancy Baldwin, Gail Lankford, Lynn Smith, and Ruth
Young
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