Hi all,
Six of us enjoyed wonderful weather on Thursday for the
Transylvania
Count.
Here are out totals. It includes 40 species this
year.
Lynn Smith
Camden, SC & Brevard, NC
Transylvania County
Butterfly Count
August 13, 2009
6 Participants in two groups
Pipevine Swallowtail 42
Black Swallowtail 1
E. Tiger Swallowtail 58
Spicebush Swallowtail 9
Cabbage White 2
Clouded Sulphur 3
Orange Sulphur 7
Cloudless Sulphur 29
Gray Hairstreak 1
Red-banded
Hairstreak 4
Eastern Tailed-blue 45
Summer Azure 40
Variegated
Fritillary 1
Diana Fritillary 11
Great-spangled Fritillary 9
Aphrodite
Fritillary 1
Meadow Fritillary 5
Silvery Checkerspot 2
Pearl
Crescent 14
Question Mark 1
Eastern Comma 2
Common Buckeye 7
Red-spotted Purple 7
Northern Pearly-eye 4
Carolina Satyr 7
Common
Wood-nymph 1
Monarch 2
Silver-spotted Skipper 129
S. Cloudywing
1
N. Cloudywing 4
Horace's Duskywing 3
Clouded Skipper 2
Least
Skipper 8
Fiery Skipper 4
Peck's Skipper 10
Sachem 2
Zabulon Skipper
8
Dun Skippr 2
Dusted Skipper 1
Lace-winged Roadside Skipper 1
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