[TN-Butterflies] Re: Reakirt's Blue FOY for Shelby County
- From: Rita Venable <ritavenable@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bjones7777@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:43:25 -0500
Oh, this is WONDERFUL!!! What a great find! Congratulations to Bart for
"re-finding" this new species in TN! Is anyone interested in going to see it
next week?
Rita Venable, Williamson Co.
Franklin, TN
P.S. Bart, if it's found in another county, it will be included in the book.
Anything in 2 counties, counts.
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Bart Jones <bjones7777@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I spent about 3 hours today (8/13) at Eagle Lake Wildlife Refuge hoping to
> see Bronze Coppers again. This is the same time frame that Richard Connors
> saw them there last year, so I was hopeful. As I was walking along the berm
> around the lake, at almost the same spot as the Bronze Coppers were seen
> last year, a Blue fluttered up and settled back down on a blade of grass. I
> first thought it was an Eastern Tailed-Blue, but when I looked for tails, I
> didn't see any. That's when I noticed the large black dots ringed with
> white on the forewings - a Reakirt's Blue!!! To my knowledge this is only
> the second sighting of this species in Tennessee, the other also from Shelby
> County, when, I don't know. Amazingly, I saw 4 fresh individuals today,
> some hundreds of feet away from each other. I only saw 1 Eastern
> Tailed-Blue, who would have thought Reakirt's Blues would outnumber them.
>
> We had a big rain last night, so the gravel road through the refuge was
> covered with hundreds of Hackberry Emperors, American Snouts, Pearl
> Crescents, Cloudless Sulphurs, and Question Marks. Also seen along the road
> were dozens of Little Yellows, Fiery Skippers, Silvery Checkerspots, and
> Spicebush Swallowtails.
>
> Unfortunately, no Bronze Coppers, Funereal Duskywings, or Dainty Sulphurs
> this time. Maybe next trip.
>
> Here's a list of species seen and approximate numbers:
>
> Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 12
> Zebra Swallowtail - 1
> Pipevine Swallowtail - 1
> Spicebush Swallowtail - 25+
> Checkered White - 1
> Orange Sulphur - 20+
> Sleepy Orange - 15
> Little Yellow - 30+
> Cloudless Sulphur - 100+
> Gray Hairstreak - 3
> Red-banded Hairstreak - 1
> Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1
> *Reakirt's Blue - 4*
> Gulf Fritillary - 5
> Variegated Fritillary - 1
> Pearl Crescent - 100+
> Phaon Crescent - 1
> Silvery Checkerspot - 20+
> Question Mark - 50+
> Eastern Comma - 3
> Red Admiral - 4
> Common Buckeye - 50+
> Red-spotted Purple - 10
> Viceroy - 8
> Hackberry Emperor - 100+
> American Snout - 100+
> Monarch - 4
> Silver-spotted Skipper - 20+
> Horace's Duskywing - 2
> Common/White Checkered-Skipper - 5
> Hayhurst's Scallopwing - 1
> Fiery Skipper - 100+
> Sachem - 20+
> Northern Broken-Dash - 2
>
> 34 species.
>
> Bart Jones
> Memphis, Shelby County
>
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