Yes, very few butterflies anywhere including my yard.
On another note, we went up to the Bronze Copper site a week ago. Ran into Jeff
Basham. He said he had been exploring the area in his boat for the last 5
weekends. Lots of Coopers around over that time period. Of course while we were
there there weren’t any to be seen from the road. And he hadn’t seen any yet in
the area where you and Libby originally found them.
Dave
From: Tommie Rogers
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 7:16 AM
To: tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [TN-Butterflies] Re: Prentice Cooper WMA
On the opposite side of the river from Prentice Cooper, there are very few
butterflies. I have seen only two male Dianas in the past two weeks, a few
miles apart. Spicebush is even hard to find. Some volunteers are trying to
find caterpillars locally to raise them in captivity to keep them away from
predators. I haven’t seen any species depositing eggs on our property this
season. That is unusual, but there are so few butterflies now anyway.
Tommie Rogers
Marion county
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[mailto:tn-butterflies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of KATHY ;(Redacted
sender "zlongwing" for DMARC)
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 9:50 PM
To: tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [TN-Butterflies] Re: Prentice Cooper WMA
Dave, Did you see any female Diana Frits? Kathy Malone, Spring Hill
On Jun 18, 2016, at 7:44 PM, Dave Spicer <birdsnbflys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We spent several hours this afternoon in Prentice Cooper WMA. There seemed to
be less total number of butterflies around over all.
Here’s what we saw.
Red Admiral
Summer Azure
Common Buckeye
Eastern Comma
Diana Fritillary
Great Spangled Fritillary
Gulf Fritillary
Banded Hairstreak
Coral Hairstreak
Least Skipper
American Snout
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Pipevine Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
The Banded Hairstreaks and Diana Fritillaries were the most numerous, the
rest of the species we saw very few of including the Great Spangled Fritillary
and usually this time of year they are everywhere.
Dave Spicer
Ooltewah, Hamilton County
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