[TN-Butterflies] Sellers Farm SAA
- From: Rconnorsphoto@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:21:04 EDT
Date: 10/19/2010
Location: Sellers Farm State Archaeological Area, Wilson Co. TN
Number of Species: 17
Number of Individuals: 1226
Notes: morning visit to Sellers Farm, hazy sun, cloudy by 12 noon; most
field areas un-mowed with some plants still in flower; Sachems mostly using
small white aster (Aster pilosus), there was a lot of that and there were
lots of Sachems... in a fifty acre area there were probably 5,000 (25
skippers per large clump of asters, maybe 200 clumps of asters in 50 acres),
but a
rough estimate of the number I could see from the trails was about 1,000.
Richard Connors
Nashville
Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes Adult 1 male, fresh-looking
Checkered White Pontia protodice Adult 4
Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice Adult 2
Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme Adult 25
E.Tailed-Blue Everes comyntas Adult 30
Gulf Fritillary Agraulis vanillae Adult 8
Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia Adult 10
Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos Adult 50
anglewing Polygonia sp. Adult 3
Common Buckeye Junonia coenia Adult 35
Goatweed Leafwing Anaea andria Adult 2 fairly fresh-looking
Gemmed Satyr Cyllopsis gemma Adult 1
Carolina Satyr Hermeuptychia sosybius Adult 6
Com/White Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus sp. Adult 25
Clouded Skipper Lerema accius Adult 15 all on Phlox or basking
Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus Adult 10
Sachem Atalopedes campestris Adult 999 +
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