Seven (7) of us participated in the “delayed” Surry Count this year and 15 skipper species saved what could have been a fairly meager count. But we still ended up with 38 species and 320 individual butterflies. The best find was probably the Southern Pearly-eyes which are rarely seen in area. Thanks to all who helped out!

Pipevine Swallowtail 2
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
Spicebush Swallowtail 1
Cabbage White 1
Orange Sulphur 2
Cloudless Sulphur 1
Sleepy Orange 20
Gray Hairstreak 1
Eastern Tailed-blue 13
Summer Azure 11
Variegated Fritillary 1
Great Spangled Fritillary 8
Pearl Crescent 22
American Lady 1
Red Admiral 5
Common Buckeye 6
Red-spotted Purple 21
Southern Pearly-eye 2
Appalachian Brown 1
Gemmed Satyr 8
Carolina Satyr 60
Common Wood Nymph 2
Horace’s Duskywing 2
Common Checkered Skipper 1
Least Skipper 3
Fiery Skipper 2
Peck’s Skipper 2
Tawny-edged Skipper 3
Crossline Skipper 6
Southern Broken-dash 3
Northern Broken-dash 18
Little Glassywing 7
Sachem 56
Delaware Skipper 8
Zabulon Skipper 7
Dun Skipper 6
Common Roadside Skipper 4
Silver-spotted Skipper 3

Gene Schepker (and Maggie Wallace Martin, Bud Webster, Lois Koufman, Charles Cameron, Jim Nottke, Sven Halling)