On Sept. 3 Lynn Smith, Janie Owens, Gail Lankford, Simon Thompson, and Doug
Johnston did an exploratory count. We hope to conduct a new NABA count of
the county next year.
Due to 2 key persons having to cancel their
participation, we only went to 3
areas, all of which were in lower
elevations - Sandy Mush Gamelands, Black
Mountain Recreation Park, and NC
Arboretum. The combined list of 40 species
follows.
E Tiger
Swallowtail 14
Pipevine Swallowtail 1
Black Swallowtail 4
Cabbage White
25
Clouded Sulphur 5
Orange Sulphur 3
Cloudless Sulphur 29
Little
Yellow 6
Harvester 1
Gray Hairstreak 6
Red-banded Hairstreak 5
ETB
29
Summer Azure 4
Variegated Fritillary 16
Great Spangled Fritillary 31
Diana Fritillary 1
Meadow Fritillary 1
Pearl Crescent 51
Common Buckeye
4
American Lady 1
Red -spotted Purple 13
Monarch 8
Viceroy 2
Hackberry Emperor 3
Tawny Emperor 2
Northern Pearly-Eye 36
Appalachian
Brown 2
Gemmed Satyr 2
Carolina Satyr 3
Common Wood -Nymph 1
Silver-
spotted Skipper 15
Wild Indigo Duskywing 15
Zarucco Duskywing 2
Least
Skipper 6
Crossline Skipper 1
Sachem 328
Zabulon Skipper 19
Fiery
Skipper 3
Dun Skipper 3
Clouded Skipper 2
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