On Sunday, June 5, Bob & Nancy Baldwin, Ruth Young, Charlie Cameron,
Elizabeth Riggs and I had an enjoyable day participating in the 11th annual
Forsyth County butterfly count. Mostly sunny, the temperatures rose
quickly to the 80s and remained steamy all day. As with the Yadkin count
the previous day, blooms and butterflies are running one or two weeks late,
compared to previous years.
What we did find;
1 Pipevine Swallowtail
11 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
30 Cabbage White
5 Clouded Sulphur
16 Orange Sulphur
3 Sleepy Orange
1 Gray Hairstreak
6 Eastern Tailed-Blue
25 Azure
10 Great Spangled Fritillary
4 Pearl Crescent
1 Eastern Comma
9 American Lady
3 Painted Lady
3 Red Admiral
4 Red Spotted Purple
1 Gemmed Satyr
21 Carolina Satyr
2 Little Wood Satyr
1 Monarch
11 Silver Spotted Skipper
1 Southern Broken Dash
2 Little Glassywing
1 Sachem
1 Delaware Skipper
4 Zabulon Skipper
1 Dun Skipper
1 Monarch Caterpillar
1 Cabbage White egg
27 species
178 adult butterflies
Jim Nottke
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