At Congaree National Park on Saturday Sept 27 Christina Hulslander, Marty and Dave Kastner, Stephanie and Robert Edy, Susan Creed, Creed Branham, Louise Watkins, Elaine Stonecypher, and Dennis Forsythe (on the Calhoun Co. side of the Congaree River) searched for leps from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Results were:(C) represents Calhoun Co. sighting- area includes agricultural fields and roadsides, some wooded edges(R) represents Richland Co. sighting- area is hardwood bottomland forest with cane understory and open field near stream Palamedes Swallowtail-1 (C)
Checkered White- (C) 2 usual location by silo just off Hy 601
Cloudless Sulfur-135(C) 7(R)
Little Yellow-40+ (C), 7(R)
Sleepy Orange-125+(C)
Red-banded Hairstreak-1(C)
Gray Hairstreak-2 (C)
Hairstreak sp. unid 1 (R)
Eastern Tailed-Blue-2 (C), 5 (R)
Blue sp. 2 (R)
Gulf Fritillary-160+ (C), 25(R))
Variegated Fritillary-50+ (C)
Question Mark-1 (C)
Comma sp. 1 (R)
American Lady-(C), 2 (R)
Painted Lady-1 (C)
Common Buckeye-8 (C), 2 (R)
"Seminole" Texas Crescent-10 (C)
Pearl Crescent-2 (C), 56 (R)
Phaon Cresent 2 (R)
Red-spotted Purple-2 (C), 4 (R)
Viceroy-1 (C) Hackberry -3 (R)
Southern Pearly-Eye 24 (R) understory of cane growth in forest
Creole Pearly-Eye 3 (R)
Appalachian Brown 58 (R) Only 1 spotted during June count of same area
Gemmed Satyr 4 (R)
Carolina Satyr-7 (C), 12 (R)
Monarch-3 (C), 1 (R)
Silver-spotted Skipper-2 (C), 2(R)
Long-tailed Skipper-5 (C), 5 (R)
Horace's Duskywing-1 (C)
Common/White Checkered-Skipper-20+ (C)
Clouded Skipper-20 (C), 26 (R)
Southern Skipperling-2 (C)
Least Skipper 3 (R)
Fiery Skipper-15 (C), 3 (R)
Whirlabout-2 (C)
Little Glassywing 2 (R)
Dun Skipper 27 (R) few with golden head coloration
Zabulon Skipper-1 (C) 3 (R)
Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper-5, (C), 24 (R) explored forest trails with cane growth throughout
Ocola Skipper 2 (C) 41 species.
(No observations of Snout or Great Purple Hairstreak both seen on 2007 fall count and 2008 June count)
Christina S. Hulslander
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