Here are the totals of the Wake County butterfly count, held on August 7.
Three parties. Because I copied and pasted columns from John Connors' Excel
table, it looks a tad messy. But, we had 53 species, the second highest species
number in the 15 years of the count (record is 54). (John isn't subscribed to
carolinaleps -- hence my effort in pasting results here!). As he mentioned, we
may have lost Checkered White from the circle, though there is a population a
few miles to the south. And, the Clouded Sulphurs are about gone from the circle
also, though they also are to our south. Hence, we are losing pastures/fields in
west Raleigh. Pipevine Swallowtail was a somewhat bad miss, and the 2 American
Ladies is extremely low. On the other hand, we had a few remarkable counts --
such as 13 Lace-winged Roadside-Skippers and 162 Zabulon Skippers.
Black Sw. -Papilio polyxenes 4
E. Tiger Sw. - Papilio glaucus 56
Spicebush
Sw.- Papilio troilus 13
Cabbage Wh. -Pieris rapae 12
Orange Sulp.- Colias
eurytheme 16
Cloudless Sul- Phoebis sennae 7
Sleepy Orange- Eurema nicippe
11
Gray Hrstk - Strymon melinus 7
Red-bd Hrstk-Calycopis cecrops 4
E
Tailed Blue- Everes comyntas 45
Summer Azure- C. neglecta 27
A Snout-
Libytheana carinenta 6
Variegated Frit-Euptoieta claudia 44
Pearl
Crescent-Phyciodes tharos 89
QMark- Polygonia interrogationis 15
E Comma-
P. comma 7
A. Lady- Vanessa virginiensis 2
Painted Lady- V. cardui 1
Red Admiral- V. atalanta 4
C. Buckeye- Junonia coenia 31
Red-sp.Purple-Limenitis
arthemis 6
Viceroy- L. archippus 2
Hackberry E.-Asterocampa celtis 21
Tawny Emperor- A. clyton 2
So.Pearly-eye- Enodia portlandia 1
No.
Pearly-eye- E. anthedon 25
App.Brown-Satyrodes appalachia 2
Gemmed Satyr-Cyllopsis
gemma 3
Car.Satyr-Hermeuptychia sosybius 296
C. Wood-Nymph-Cercyonis
pegala 4
Monarch-- Danaus plexippus 7
Silver-spot Sk.-Epargyreus
clarus 72
Hoary Edge- Achalarus lyciades 7
SoCloudywing-Thorybes bathyllus
3
NoCloudywing- T. pylades 1
Horace's Duskywing- E. horatius 23
Wild
Indigo Duskyw- E. baptisiae 11
C.Checkered Skip-Pyrgus communis 10
C.
Sootywing- Phollisora catullus 5
Swarthy Skip- Nastra Iherminier 11
Clouded Skip- Lerema accius 36
Least Skip-Ancycloxypha numitor 128
Fiery
Skip-Hylephila phyleus 63
Crossline Skip- P. origenes 5
So.Broken-Dash-Wallengrenia
otho 19
Little Glassywing-Pompeius verna 18
Sachem- Atalopedes campestris
112
Zabulon Skip- Poanes zabulon 162
Delaware Skip-Anatrytone logan 1
Dun Skip- Euphyes vestris 8
Lace-wingRdside-Amblyscirtes aesculapius 13
Eufala Skip- Lerodea eufala 3
Ocola Skip- Panoquina ocola 1
Harry
LeGrand
NC Natural Heritage Program
DENR Division of Natural Resources
Planning and Conservation
1601 MSC
Raleigh, NC 27699-1601
(919)
715-8697 (work)
e-mail: harry.legrand@ncdenr.gov
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