The Transylvania NABA count was held on Thursday, August 13, 2015. We counted a total of 48 species, as listed below. I’ll be submitting the higher number of Wild Indigo Duskywings when I complete my report to NABA. We had some questionable individuals and after photographs were submitted to Harry LeGrand, they were identified as Wild Indigos, not Zarucco duskywings.

Many thanks to-Doug Johnston, Gene Schepker, Sven Halling, Gail Lankford, Nancy Cowal, Janie Owens, Sue Perry, Roger Wellington, and Salman Abdulali for the great job you did!

Ruth Young

Pipevine swallowtail 27
Black swallowtail 6
E. Tiger swallowtail 165
Spicebush swallowtail 20
Cabbage white 9
Clouded sulphur 25
Orange sulphur 18
Cloudless sulphur 11
Sleepy orange 3
Harvester 3
Gray hairstreak 6
Red banded hairstreak 7
Eastern tailed blue 81
Summer azure 206
Gulf fritillary 2
Variegated fritillary 58
Diana fritillary 7
Great spangled fritillary 2
Aphrodite fritillary 1
Meadow fritillary 92
Silvery checkerspot 2
Pearl crescent 83
Question mark 2
Eastern comma 3
Red admiral 5
Common buckeye 65
Red spotted purple 6
Viceroy 4
Northern pearly eye 2
Carolina satyr 2
Monarch 10
Silver spotted skipper 308
Long tailed skipper 3
Horace’s duskywing 18
Wild Indigo duskywing 18 (28?)
Common checkered skipper 1
Swarthy Skipper 1
Least skipper 23
Fiery skipper 12
Peck’s skipper 43
Tawny edged skipper 2
Crossline skipper 30
Little glassywing 2
Sachem 33
Zabulon skipper 10
Dun skipper 3
Lace winged roadside skipper 1
Ocola skipper 4