7 of us spent Aug 9 under mostly sunny skies counting butterflies from the summit of Pilot Mountain to the Yadkin River. We tallied 41 species with a fantastic 18 species of skippers!

Misses include Pipevine, Zebra and Black Swallowtail, Clouded and Orange Sulphur, Harvester, Snout, Question Mark, either Emperor, Gemmed Satyr and Monarch.

58 E. Tiger swallowtail
4 Spicebush swallowtail
1 Cabbage White
2 Cloudless Sulphur (plus one likely albino)
2 Little Yellow (FOY)
11 Sleepy Orange
3 Gray Hairstreak
24 E Tailed Blue
23 Summer Azure
13 Variegated Fritillary
5 Great spangled Fritillary
38 Pearl Crescent
1 Eastern Comma
2 American Lady
4 Red Admiral
11 Common Buckeye
15 Red-spotted Purple
1 Viceroy
4 Southern Pearly-eye
5 Northern Pearly-eye
1 Appalachian Brown
68 Carolina Satyr
4 Common Wood-nymph
18 Silver-spotted Skipper
1 Hoary Edge
2 Southern Cloudywing
1 Horaces Duskywing
1 Common checkered skipper
1 Swarthy Skipper
17 Least skipper
3 Fiery skipper
3 Pecks skipper
4 Tawny-edged skipper
10 Crossline Skipper
3 Southern Broken-dash
10 Little Glassywing
18 Sachem
11 Delaware skipper
11 Zabulon skipper
2 Lace-winged roadside skipper
1 Common roadside skipper

—
Brian Bockhahn
birdranger248@gmail.com