[TN-Butterflies] White County Notes
- From: Douglas Downs <douglas_downs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Butterflies <tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:31:51 -0500
Have been out twice this past week looking for 'flies. On Wednesday (4-1), I
took a short drive after work to the Wildcat Cove area in northern White
County. There is a road there that trails down through a heavily wooded area
to the shores of Center Hill Lake. That day I had the following:
Zebra Swallowtail - 3
West Virginia White - 2 (FOS, photos)
Cabbage White - 1
Falcate Orangetip - 3
Clouded Sulfur - 2
Goatweed Leafwing - 1
Duskywing sp. - 1
On Saturday (4-4), I drove the Lost Creek-Whites Cave-Hickory Valley loop
through wooded ridges and hollers and added a last minute run up Firetower Rd.
and environs, all in SE White County. During the afternoon I found several
excellent puddles of 'flies, including one that had at least 10 Zebra
Swallowtails, 5 Eastern Tigers, and over 30 Duskywings! Altogether that day, I
had the following:
Zebra Swallowtail - 52 (photos)
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 21 (photos)
West Virginia White - 6 (including two in mating posture)
Cabbage White - 1
Falcate Orangetip - 13
Clouded Sulfur - 16
Orange Sulfur - 2
Sulfur sp. - 7
Harvester - 3 (photos)
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1 (FOS, photos)
Azure sp. - 1
Question Mark - 1
Mourning Cloak - 2
Goatweed Leafwing - 1
Duskywing sp. - 80 (a conservative estimate, many photos but no ventral shots)
Grapevine Epimenis - 2
So far this year, I have had 18 species in White County. Hoping the current
cold snap will not slow things down too much. I'm wondering if we won't see
something of a complete restart of the spring butterfly season beginning later
this week.
Best to all,
Doug Downs
Sparta, White County
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