I spent the day working intermittently on my yard list, managing to tie the highest count for total species that I have had during the past 8 years. The day's efforts allowed me to add five species to the year list for the yard. I entered this list into the NABA BIS program, requested an email list to be mailed to me, modified it to suit myself, and present it below for your perusal.
Good 'flyin', Steve Stedman Cookeville (Putnam County) Date: 08/22/2010 Number of Species: 29 Number of Individuals: 98 Location: City Lake, Putnam Co., TNNotes: Good variety of flowering plants available; some that were attractive to the butterflies included two large white butterfly bushes (skippers), two large beauty bushes (Eastern Tiger Swallowtails and Spicebush Swallowtails), mistflower (skippers), some yellow composites (mainly the checkerspots and crescents), ironweed (Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper and Dun Skipper), jewelweed (Cloudless Sulphurs), butterfly weed (one late bloomer, attractive to Spicebush Swallowtail), tropical milkweed (Monarch), and thistles (swallowtails including Black, skippers, and Gray Hairstreak). An oriental pear-apple had some ripe hanging fruit, which was attractive to Red Admiral, Red-spotted Purple, Hackberry and Tawny emperors, and Carolina Satyrs.
Clouded Skipper Lerema accius Adult 2 Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor Adult 1 Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus Adult 1 Sachem Atalopedes campestris Adult 15 Northern Broken-Dash Wallengrenia egeremet Adult 2 Zabulon Skipper Poanes zabulon Adult 1 female Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris Adult 2 Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper Amblyscirtes aesculapius Adult 1 Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes Adult 1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus Adult 11 (4 black form females) Spicebush Swallowtail Papilio troilus Adult 2 Cabbage White Pieris rapae Adult 1 female Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae Adult 5 Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus Adult 1 Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus Adult 3 Eastern Tailed-Blue Cupido comyntas Adult 2 Monarch Danaus plexippus Adult 1 male Gulf Fritillary Agraulis vanillae Adult 1 Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia Adult 1 Silvery Checkerspot Chlosyne nycteis Adult 5 Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos Adult 11 Question Mark Polygonia interrogationis Adult 2 Eastern Comma Polygonia comma Adult 1 Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta Adult 1 Common Buckeye Junonia coenia Adult 4 Red-spotted Purple Limenitis arthemis astyanax Adult 4 Hackberry Emperor Asterocampa celtis Adult 2 Tawny Emperor Asterocampa clyton Adult 1 Carolina Satyr Hermeuptychia sosybius Adult 13 The FAQ can be found by logging in at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi/l=tn-butterflies Please report any abuse or questions about this list to kjchilds@xxxxxxxxx Users can unsubscribe from this list by sending an email to tn-butterflies-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.
