[MEBC-Butterfly] Roan Naturalist Rally, Dave Miller Homestead, Carter Co., TN 5-8-11

  • From: Don Holt <dnldhlt@xxxxxxx>
  • To: mebc-butterfly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, butternuts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tn-dragonflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 23:37:36 -0400 (EDT)



SUN 08 MAY 2011
Dave Miller Homestead, Roan Mtn. State Park, Carter Co., TN

The Sunday afternoon butterfly walk found the following butterfly and dragonfly 
spp.(and beetle):

Silver-spotted Skipper
Juvenal's Duskywing
Dreamy Duskywing
Peck's Skipper
Pipevine Swallowtail
Tiger Swallowtail spp. (probably both Eastern and Appalachian)
Orange Sulfur
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Azure sp.
Variegated Fritillary
Meadow Fritillary
Pearl Crescent
Mourning Cloak

Common Whitetail
Stripe-winged Baskettail

Rainbow Scarab (Phanaeus vindex) - discovered under a suspiciously wiggling 
scat and dug up with a stick

Don Holt
Johnson City, TN

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