Three of us (*) had a very good day of butterflying in Iredell County, at Allison
Woods and the Iredell County Greenway from about 9:30 until 3:00 today (May 31).
In addition to butterflies we encountered many, many toads of all sizes, from 1/4 inch long up to 4 inch size.
1 Pipevine Swallowtail
11 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
2 Spicebush Swallowtail
3 Cabbage White
9 Clouded Sulphur one albino
18 Orange Sulphur
9 Cloudless Sulphur
4 Sleepy Orange
2 Harvester
1 Banded Hairstreak
1 Gray Hairstreak
13 Eastern Tailed Blue
27 Summer Azure
1 American Snout
4 Variegated Fritillary
5 Great Spangled Fritillary
25 Silvery Checkerspot
3 Pearl Crescent
7 Questionmark
2 Eastern Comma
4 Mourning Cloak
12 American Lady
4 Red Admiral
4 Common Buckeye
5 Red Spotted Purple
12 Hackberry Emperor
1 Tawny Emperor
2 Southern Pearly-eye
1 Northern Pearly-eye
2 Carolina Satyr
9 Little Wood Satyr
6 Silver Spotted Skipper
2 Hoary Edge
2 Northern Cloudywing
12 Clouded Skipper
2 Least Skipper
3 Sachem
5 Zabulon Skipper
* - Jim Nottke, Gene Schepker, Tom Tomlinson
Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC
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