Richard,
Thanks for this and the numbers. Numbers are imperative the way I see
it. Now, you and anyone else tell me, you call the aster Aster pilosus, and
I, out of ignorance, call what is about the only thing still blooming where
I go Daisy Fleabane (seems to turn purple with age though I see only a
little of this now). So is what I think is DF is your A. pilosus? I really
can't tell from web images. My aster can be seen in the attachment (with the
checkered-skipper species). I really want to know what this plant is as it
is the main and usually only one available where I go now. You add to my
personal list of still out there Black Swallowtail, Gemmed Satyr, and
Goatweed Leafwing. Am glad to know about the flight length of the leafwing.
Seems it is never mentioned except in spring. Thank you.
Michael Lee Bierly, Nashville, Davidson County, TN.
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Subject: [TN-Butterflies] Sellers Farm SAA
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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