Mayo River/Rockingham County NABA Count – Sept 1, 2016

Mayo River/Rockingham County Butterfly Count
Thursday September 1 2016 0815-1515
72 to 92 degrees, rain after noon, deluge at 3pm ended the count

4 intrepid observers counted until the rain washed us out, finding 38 species (average 46) in just a few hours. Several satyrs and skippers were very worn and fading, leading us to think we were 1-2 weeks too late, or the “season” ended earlier than normal.

4 Pipevine swallowtail
2 Black swallowtail
64 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
7 Spicebush swallowtail

3 Cabbage white
1 Clouded Sulphur
5 Cloudless Sulphur
1 Sleepy Orange

7 Gray Hairstreak
1 Red-banded Hairstreak
125 Eastern Tailed-blue
3 Summer Azure

1 American Snout
2 Variegated Fritillary
4 Great Spangled Fritillary
17 Silvery Checkerspot
22 Pearl Crescent
38 Common Buckeye
16 Red-spotted Purple
1 Viceroy
14 Hackberry Emperor
2 Tawny Emperor
3 Gemmed Satyr
95 Carolina Satyr
3 Monarch

5 Silver-spotted skipper
5 Common Checkered-skipper
3 Swarthy skipper
26 Clouded skipper
4 Least skipper
3 Fiery skipper
4 Crossline skipper
2 Southern broken-dash
18 Little glassywing
72 Sachem
3 Delaware skipper
1 Zabulon skipper
3 Dun skipper

Misses include Question Mark, Eastern Comma, American Lady, Northern Pearly-eye, Common Wood-nymph, Pecks skipper, Tawny-edge skipper, Northern Broken-dash, Ocola skipper.


Brian Bockhahn
birdranger248@gmail.com