Hanging Rock Butterfly Count
Wednesday August 31 2016 0900-1900
75 to 88 degrees, no clouds, clear.

7 observers tallied 41 species, matching last year’s total.

2 Black swallowtail
63 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
1 Spicebush swallowtail

1 Cabbage white
1 Orange Sulphur
16 Cloudless Sulphur
3 Sleepy Orange

1 Harvester
8 Gray Hairstreak
185 Eastern Tailed-blue
28 Summer Azure

2 Great Spangled Fritillary
4 Silvery Checkerspot
95 Pearl Crescent
1 Question Mark
1 Eastern Comma
12 Common Buckeye
15 Red-spotted Purple
4 Hackberry Emperor
2 Tawny Emperor
3 Northern Pearly-eye
8 Gemmed Satyr
253 Carolina Satyr
4 Common Wood-nypmh
1 Monarch

1 Silver-spotted skipper
2 Horace’s Duskywing
2 Common Checkered-skipper
4 Swarthy skipper
13 Clouded skipper
4 Least skipper
3 Pecks skipper
1 Tawny-edged skipper
2 Southern broken-dash
4 Northern broken-dash
3 Little glassywing
150 Sachem
5 Delaware skipper
4 Zabulon skipper
6 Dun skipper
1 Eufala skipper (new to park, maybe county)

Misses include: Pipevine Swallowtail, Clouded Sulphur, Red-banded Hairstreak, Variegated Fritillary, American Lady, Red Admiral, Viceroy, Fiery Skipper, Crossline, Ocola skipper.

—
Brian Bockhahn
birdranger248@gmail.com