CATOCTIN CREEK BUTTERFLY
COUNT
OFFICIAL RESULTS
SUMMER 2017
Thanks to the great turnout by the
4-H Bug Patrol and from the great public notifications, we had 48 people on the
registration! Wow!
|
Butterfly Types
|
Official
Number Counted (1 hr)
|
Unofficial
“Second Sweep” Count
|
|
Red-Spotted Purple
|
5
|
5
|
|
Hackberry Emperor
|
1
|
1
|
|
Monarch
|
4
|
4
|
|
Northern Pearly-Eye
|
4
|
4
|
|
American Snout
|
2
|
2
|
|
Tawny Emperor
|
0
|
1
|
|
Common Buckeye
|
2
|
2
|
|
Red Admiral
|
0
|
3
|
|
Silvery Checkerspot
|
100+
(most
ever counted here; 11 at most previously)
|
180-200
|
|
Cabbage White
|
35
|
35
|
|
Clouded Sulfur
|
4
|
4
|
|
Orange Sulfur
|
3
|
6
|
|
Eastern Tailed Blue
|
7
|
14
|
|
Summer Azure
|
3
|
14
|
|
American Copper
|
4
|
6
|
|
Gray Hairstreak
|
4
|
5
|
|
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
|
5
|
5
|
|
Spicebush Swallowtail
|
7
|
7
|
|
Zebra Swallowtail
|
2
|
2
|
|
Dun Skipper
|
2
|
2
|
|
Least Skipper
|
10
|
10
|
|
Peck's Skipper
|
4
|
10
|
|
Tawny-Edged Skipper
|
0
|
1
|
|
Silver Spotted Skipper
|
50
|
80+
|
|
Zabulon Skipper
|
7
|
7
|
|
Sachem
|
6
|
13
|
|
Horace’s Duskywing
|
1
|
2
|
|
Wild Indigo Duskywing
|
1
|
1
|
|
Pearl Crescent (tentative ID)
|
1
|
0
|
|
Fiery Skipper
(tentative ID)
|
1
|
0
|
|
Painted Lady
|
0
|
1
|
|
Common Sootywing
|
0
|
4
|
|
Total Number of Species
|
25 confirmed
(not including tentative IDs)
|
30
confirmed
|
|
Total Number Counted
|
250+
|
400+
|
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