During the splendid CBS symposium at Yates Mill yesterday, 32 of us tallied leps throughout the day and then a Bud Webster led hike afterwards. Highlight was a Great Purple Hairstreak that I spotted during lunch, ran back in to tell everyone interrupting their lunch, and then it lingered happily for several hundred photos and seen by all!

11 E Tiger Swallowtail
1 Spicebush Swallowtail

1 Clouded Sulphur
5 Cloudless Sulphur
1 Little Yellow
2 Sleepy Orange

1 Great Purple Hairstreak (FOY for many of us)
3 Red-banded Hairstreak

2 American Snout
2 Variegated Fritillary
6 Pearl Crescent
1 Question Mark
2 Eastern Comma
1 Red Admiral
7 Common Buckeye (NCSU property)
7 Red-spotted Purple
4 Viceroy
1 Hackberry Emperor
2 Gemmed Satyr (1 indoors)
1 Monarch (NCSU)

1 Silver-spotted Skipper
6 Clouded Skipper
1 Least Skipper
2 Fiery Skipper
34 Ocola Skipper

Other bugs

12 Eastern Pondhawk
15 Slaty Skimmer
30 Blue Dasher
1 Wandering Glider
20 Eastern Amberwing
8 Common Whitetail

4 Scolia dubia, Blue-winged Wasp (mult common names)
1 Sphex Ichneumonus, Great Golden Digger Wasp
2 Chalybion californicum, Velvet Blue Mud Dauber
30 Xylocopa virginica, Eastern Carpenter Bee

1 Hemaris thysbe, Hummingbird Clearwing Moth
1 Black-bordered Lemon Moth

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Brian Bockhahn
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