[TN-Butterflies] bamona for macon county 20 aug 10

  • From: "Steve Stedman" <birdsongteam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:10:24 -0500

I spent 5 hours (0930-1430 CDT) in Macon County today, hoping to add a few BAMONA records, and did find 6 species not currently on the very short butterfly list for that county; these are denoted with "photo" below. 


Steve Stedman
Cookeville, TN
Here is the list, slightly modified from the way that it comes from the NABA BIS program: 

Date: 08/20/2010
Number of Species: 30
Number of Individuals: 464
Location: Macon County, TN, mainly Wheeler Springs Rd. area and Frog Pond area 

Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus Adult 1
Common/White Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus communis/albescens Adult 5
Common Sootywing Pholisora catullus Adult 1
Swarthy Skipper Nastra lherminier Adult 1
Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor Adult 2
Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus Adult 2 photo
Peck's Skipper Polites peckius Adult 3
Sachem Atalopedes campestris Adult 50
Zabulon Skipper Poanes zabulon Adult 3
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus Adult 5
Spicebush Swallowtail Papilio troilus Adult 1
Checkered White Pontia protodice Adult 1 photo
Cabbage White Pieris rapae Adult 10
Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice Adult 10
Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme Adult 10
Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae Adult 20
Little Yellow Eurema lisa Adult 9 photo
Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus Adult 8
Eastern Tailed-Blue Cupido comyntas Adult 30
American Snout Libytheana carinenta Adult 3
Monarch Danaus plexippus Adult 3
Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia Adult 5 photo
Silvery Checkerspot Chlosyne nycteis Adult 160 (150 in one big "puddle" near Frog Pond) 
Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos Adult 55
Eastern Comma Polygonia comma Adult 2
Common Buckeye Junonia coenia Adult 30 photo
Red-spotted Purple Limenitis arthemis astyanax Adult 25
Hackberry Emperor Asterocampa celtis Adult 3
Tawny Emperor Asterocampa clyton Adult 3 photo
Carolina Satyr Hermeuptychia sosybius Adult 3



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