On August 8, twelve of us* undertook the 4th annual Surry County butterfly
count, covering Horne Creek Historic Farm and several locations within both
sections of Pilot Mountain State Park. The day started with light rain and very
slow butterflying, but it eventually cleared and the butterflies emerged. While
it had rained recently, few nectar sources were found - a number of butterflies
were found on a small patch of Butterfly Pea in a roadside ditch. Missing this
year were hairstreaks, Buckeyes, and several small skippers.
The Pecks Skipper is a new county record for Surry County.
In the four
years of the Surry count, we have added 11 new county records.
2 Pipevine
Swallowtail
9 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
1 Spicebush Swallowtail
2
Cabbage White
3 Cloudless Sulphur
5 Orange Sulphur
1 Sleepy Orange
3
Harvester
25 Eastern Tailed Blue
7 Azure
4 Great Spangled Fritillary
6 Pearl Crescent
4 Questionmark
2 Eastern Comma
1 American Lady
1
Red Admiral
9 Red Spotted Purple
7 Northern Pearly Eye (a few other
pearly-eyes in dark places were probably also Northerns)
2 Creole Pearly Eye
2 Gemmed Satyr
17 Carolina Satyr
5 Common Wood Nymph
6 Monarch (plus an
egg and a 2nd instar caterpillar)
3 Silver Spotted Skipper
1 Southern
Cloudywing
2 Swarthy Skipper
2 Least Skipper
1 Pecks Skipper
1
Crossline Skipper
3 Little Glassywing
1 Delaware Skipper
28 Zabulon
Skipper
2 Lace Wing Roadside Skipper
33 species
157 butterflies
* John & Margaret Barlow, Beth Brinson, Charlie Cameron, Doug Demarest,
Kathy King, David McCloy, Alejandro & Amanda Merchan, Jim Nottke, Gene Schepker,
Lois Schneider
Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC
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