Here is the list of butterflies seen on the July 30 count in
Transylvania:
Pipevine Swallowtail 463
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 140
Spicebush Swallowtail 2
Cabbage White 6
Orange Sulphur 9
Cloudless Sulphur 2
Harvester 1
Gray Hairstreak 1
Red-banded Hairstreak 1
Eastern Tailed-Blue 32
Spring Azure 46
American Snout 1
Variegated Fritillary 1
Diana Fritillary 5 (all males)
Great Spangled Fritillary 4
Aphrodite Fritillary 1
Meadow Fritillary 5
Silvery Checkerspot 1
Pearl Crescent 32
Question Mark 3
Eastern Comma 3
Common Buckeye 1
Red-spotted Purple 4
Viceroy 1
Appalachian Brown 1
Monarch 1
Silver-spotted Skipper 133
Long-tailed Skipper 1
Horace's Duskywing 2
Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
Common Checkered-Skipper 1
Clouded Skipper 3
Least Skipper 1
Fiery Skipper 8
Peck's Skipper 5
Crossline Skipper 1
Whirlabout 1
Sachem 43
Hobomok Skipper 2
Dun Skipper 2
Lace-winged Roadside Skipper 1
Total species - 41. Despite the drought, this was our highest
species count. Thirty-seven species in 2005 was our previous high
number. Participants included Bob and Nancy Baldwin, Gail Lankford,
Lynn Smith, David Stebbing, Simon Thompson, and Ruth Young, compiler.
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