Had 7 folks with me yesterday at Umstead. Tallied a meager 23 species, really low numbers, very little nectar. The power line had been sprayed a few months ago, so the infamous death march was pretty uneventful. Nectar: swamp milkweed, butterfly weed, butterfly pea, lesbedeza.

1 black swallowtail
2 e tiger swallowtail
1 orange sulphur
3 little yellow
3 sleepy orange
1 harvester
1 e tailed blue
7 summer azure
6 pearl crescent
1 red admiral
4 common buckeye
8 red-spotted purple
2 Carolina satyr
1 common wood nymph
1 silver-spotted skipper
2 southern cloudywing
8 swarthy skipper
5 clouded skipper
20 least skipper
2 little glassywing
2 zabulon skipper
1 dun skipper (FOY #111)
2 ocola skipper

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Brian Bockhahn
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