The Southern Lake Norman NABA Butterfly Count was held Sunday August 17, 2014 after being postponed from the previous week. Temperatures were hot but humidity could have been much worse. Seventeen participants in six parties identified 57 species and 1238 individuals, spending 33.5 party hours in the field. Rob Van Epp’s group spent the most hours in the field and appropriately tallied the most species (44). Thanks to all who participated.

Rob Van Epps, Christine Lisiewski, Jeff Lemons, Lenny Lampel, Ethan Lampel, Robert Gilson, Laura Domingo, Thanh Huynh, Taylor Piephoff, Steve Tracy, Chris Talkington, Jan Fowler, Phil Fowler, Gene Schepker, Kevin Metcalf, Tom Sanders, Tammy Sanders.

Pipevine Swallowtail 12
Zebra Swallowtail 4
Black Swallowtail 4
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 81
Spicebush Swallowtail 33
Cabbage White 12
Orange Sulphur 10
Cloudless Sulphur 9
Little Yellow 1
Sleepy Orange 24
Red-banded Hairstreak 1
Gray Hairstreak 7
Summer Azure 26
Eastern Tailed-Blue 69
American Snout 12
Gulf Fritillary 2
Variegated Fritillary 30
Great Spangled Fritillary 4
Pearl Crescent 22
Question Mark 3
Eastern Comma 2
Painted Lady 4
American Lady 1
Red Admiral 6
Common Buckeye 133
Red-spotted Purple 23
Viceroy 5
Hackberry Emperor 8
Tawny Emperor 2
Northern Pearly-Eye 7
Creole Pearly-Eye 4
Appalachian Brown 13
Gemmed Satyr 1
Carolina Satyr 200
Common Wood-Nymph 4
Monarch 20
Silver-spotted Skipper 112
Hoary Edge 8
Southern Cloudywing 3
Northern Cloudywing 2
Horace’s Duskywing 8
Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
Common Checkered-Skipper 9
Common Sootywing 10
Swarthy Skipper 4
Clouded Skipper 22
Least Skipper 40
Southern Skipperling 1
Fiery Skipper 39
Tawny-edged Skipper 2
Crossline Skipper 1
Little Glassywing 21
Sachem 62
Delaware Skipper 25
Zabulon Skipper 45
Dun Skipper 4
Ocola Skipper 19
1238

Taylor Piephoff
Matthews, NC
PiephoffT@aol.com