Here is the preliinary list for the Putnam County East butterfly count for 24 July 2012: Silver-spotted Skipper 40 Long-tailed Skipper 1 Hoary Edge 1 Northern Cloudywing 2 Wild Indigo Duskywing 1 Checkered-Skipper sp. 1 Common Sootywing 1 Swarthy Skipper 2 Clouded Skipper 1 Fiery Skipper 1 Sachem 10 Peck's Skipper 3 Crossline Skipper 1 Zabulon Skipper 1 Common Roadside-Skipper 1 Pipevine Swallowtail 2 Zebra Swallowtail 2 Black Swallowtail 3 E. Tiger Swallowtail 43 Spicebush Swallowtail 31 Clouded Sulphur 2 Orange Sulphur 5 Cloudless Sulphur 1 Little Yellow 1 (RWS) Sleepy Orange 2 Red-banded Hairstreak 1 (RWS) E. Tailed-Blue 27 Summer Azure 3 Monarch 1 Variegated Fritillary 8 Diana Fritillary 1 (RWS) Great Spangled Fritillary 9 Silvery Checkerspot 1 Pearl Crescent 17 Am. Lady 1 Painted Lady 1 Red Admiral 4 Common Buckeye 11 Red-spotted Purple 3 Carolina Satyr 5 Total spp.: 40 Observers: Judy C. Fuson, Edmund K. LeGrand, Richard W. Simmers, Jr., Stephen J. Stedman, Carol D. Williams; 5 observers in 2 parties. Steve Stedman