Here is the list of species seen on a 4 hour visit to Gumdale Glade and Carroll Cabin Barrens. Butterfly numbers were good and it was a gorgeous day. April 9, 2009, FOYs indicated Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 5 - FOY Pipevine Swallowtail - 2 - FOY Black Swallowtail - 1 - FOY Spicebush Swallowtail - 1 - FOY Zebra Swallowtail - 8 Falcate Orangetip - 10 Clouded Sulphur - 1 - FOY Cloudless Sulphur - 1 - FOY Sleepy Orange - 1 - FOY Harvester - 2 - FOY (BAMONA co. record) Eastern Pine Elfin - 1 - FOY (BAMONA co. record) Henry's Elfin - 1 (not FOY, but BAMONA documented co. record) Juniper Hairstreak - 7 Eastern Tailed-Blue - 9 - FOY Eastern Comma - 1 - FOY Goatweed Leafwing - 4 American Snout - 1 - FOY American/Painted Lady - 2 Monarch - 3 - FOY Pearl Crescent - 6 - FOY Horace's Duskywing - at least 1 - FOY (BAMONA co. record) Juvenal's Duskywing - at least 40-50 - FOY (BAMONA co. record) Sleepy/Dreamy Duskywing - 1 - FOY (photo attached, need help on ID. Palps visible beyond hairs, spots quite prominent in 2 rows on hindwing (Dreamy), but size, quite large (Sleepy). My gut says Sleepy.) Pepper and Salt Skipper - 2 - FOY Cobweb Skipper - 5 - FOY (photo attached) _________________________________________________________________ Quick access to your favorite MSN content and Windows Live with Internet Explorer 8. http://ie8.msn.com/microsoft/internet-explorer-8/en-us/ie8.aspx?ocid=B037MSN55C0701A
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