Putnam County East Butterfly Count, 2002–Present
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| Ocola Skipper, photographed near Monterey during the 13 August 2016 Putnam County East Butterfly Count; photo Edmund K. LeGrand. |
The first annual Fourth of July Butterfly Count in eastern Putnam County was conducted, appropriately enough, 4 July 2002 with two observers—Stephen J. Stedman (SJS) and Richard W. Simmers, Jr. (RWS)—taking part. These butterfly counts, currently sponsored by the North American Butterfly Association (NABA) and formerly by the Xerces Society, may take place on any day during June and July and are usually conducted on approximately the same date each year to increase comparability of the resulting data. To allow for counting of more species and individuals than were counted in 2002, the date of this count was pushed back to late July in 2003 and was conducted during late July or early August (and called Fall Butterfly Counts if conducted in August) through 2013. In 2014 it was pushed back even further to mid-August, where it is expected to remain for the next decade or so, that period usually hosting the largest number of butterfly species during each butterfly "season" (i.e., each year).
The count in eastern Putnam County is centered at the intersection of Pen Hook [aka Pin Hook] Rd. and Rt. 70N about 4 km [2.5 mi] west of Monterey. Most of the area within the 15-mile-diameter (177 square mile) count circle is forested. Much of it includes the escarpment between the Highland Rim and the Cumberland Plateau or the plateau itself.
About 64 species of butterflies—two-thirds of the species known to have occurred in the county—were registered during one or more of the Putnam County East butterfly counts conducted during its first decade of operation (Table 2), providing information about the relative abundance of these species during mid-summer and often revealing rather marked, but expected, changes in their population numbers from year to year. During this decade the coverage of the count circle included only areas within Putnam County and excluded coverage of locations within three adjacent counties (Cumberland, Overton, and White counties). Species added to the total species during the second decade of this count's operation, when coverage expanded to take in the Overton County part of the circle, include Long-tailed Skipper (2012), Delaware Skipper (2014), Northern Broken-Dash (2013), Ocola Skipper, (2014), Juniper Hairstreak (2016), Creole Pearly-eye (2016), and Southern Pearly-eye (2016) (Table 1). No species new to the count were observed during 2015, but the species total (52) was the highest ever achieved on a butterfly count in Putnam County; thanks to Doug Bruce, Mindy Fawver, Ed LeGrand, Janie Finch, and Sue Pirolo for helping to achieve this fine total and especially for taking photographs of all but four species observed during that year's count. The count conducted during 2016 achieved an even greater species total (58), substantiating the belief that mid-August is the period of greatest butterfly diversity in this part of Tennessee, and once again photographs of all but four species were obtained during the count.
In 2014 the Putnam County East butterfly count included in its coverage for the first time the Long Hollow Farm, located in the southern part of the count circle and owned by Larry and Barb Little. Besides making their farm available for surveying, the Littles also provided a compilation dinner to the participants who took part in the Putnam County butterfly count that year. Many thanks are extended to the Littles for their generosity. In considerable measure due to the Littles' "sponsorship" of the count, the species total (46) for the 2014 count was the highest achieved up to that year. The continuing support of this butterfly count by the Littles in 2016 contributed to the highest species total yet achieved on this count.
To see a map of the area where this butterfly count is conducted, click on the following link:
Table 1. Results of Putnam County East Butterfly Counts, 2012–2021. Species totals, if underlined, are also links to photos obtained for that species during that year's count.
| Year | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
| Date (July/August) | 24 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 13 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Compiler | SJS | SJS | SJS | SJS | SJS | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Other Observers | EKL | EKL | EKL | EKL | SEP | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| JCF | JCF | JCF | JaF | DRB | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| CDW | CDW | CDW | DRB | MSF | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| RWS | -- | DRB | MSF | EKL | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| -- | -- | MSF | SEP | JaF | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| -- | -- | SEP | -- | LL | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| -- | -- | AAH | -- | BL | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| -- | -- | LL | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Total Observers | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Total Party Hours | 8.5 | 9.5 | 23.5 | 20.5 | 20.8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Miles on Foot | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3.55 | 7 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Start CDT | 0730 | 0800 | 0800 | 0800 | 0800 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| End CDT | 1600 | 1730 | 1630 | 1530 | 1630 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Sunshine % AM | 76–100 | 51–75 | 11–25 | 51-75 | 11-25 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Sunshine % PM | 76–100 | 76–100 | 26–50 | 11-25 | 26-50 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind (mph) | 0–5 | 0–5 | 0–5 | 0 | 0-10 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Low Temp. (F) | 71 | 64 | 68 | 73 | 81 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| High Temp. (F) | 91 | 77 | 84 | 80 | 92 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Total Species | 40 | 33 | 46 | 52 | 58 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Silver-spotted Skipper | 40 | 84 | 86 | 30 | 41 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Long-tailed Skipper | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Hoary Edge | 1 | 3 | 6 | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Northern Cloudywing | 2 | 2 | -- | 2 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Southern Cloudywing | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Hayhurst's Scallopwing | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Horace's Duskywing | -- | -- | 1 | 5 | 16 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Wild Indigo Duskywing | 1 | 1 | 35 | 12 | 11 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Duskywing Sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Checkered-Skipper sp. | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Common Sootywing | 1 | -- | 1 | 5 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Swarthy Skipper | 2 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Clouded Skipper | 1 | 1 | -- | 1 | 10 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Least Skipper | -- | 1 | 2 | 15 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Fiery Skipper | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 14 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Sachem | 10 | 4 | 37 | 124 | 184 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Peck's Skipper | 3 | -- | 1 | 6 | 12 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Tawny-edged Skipper | -- | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Crossline Skipper | 1 | -- | -- | 3 | 9 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Northern Broken-Dash | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 4 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Little Glassywing | -- | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Delaware Skipper | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Zabulon Skipper | 1 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 15 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Dun Skipper | -- | -- | -- | 5 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper | -- | -- | 3 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Common Roadside-Skipper | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Bell's Roadside-Skipper | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Ocola Skipper | -- | -- | 2 | 3 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Pipevine Swallowtail | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Zebra Swallowtail | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Black Swallowtail | 3 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Giant Swallowtail | -- | -- | 4 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | 43 | 155 | 59 | 323 | 318 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Spicebush Swallowtail | 31 | 22 | 51 | 30 | 89 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Swallowtail sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Checkered White | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Cabbage White | -- | -- | -- | 3 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| White sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Clouded Sulphur | 2 | 9 | 42 | 13 | 49 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Orange Sulphur | 5 | 9 | 19 | 12 | 64 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Cloudless Sulphur | 1 | 2 | 8 | 63 | 113 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Little Yellow | 1 | -- | 2 | 5 | 9 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Sleepy Orange | 2 | -- | -- | 4 | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Sulphur sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Banded Hairstreak | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Juniper Hairstreak | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Gray Hairstreak | -- | -- | 1 | 4 | 9 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Red-banded Hairstreak | 1 | -- | 5 | 2 | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Eastern Tailed-Blue | 27 | 2 | 65 | 40 | 161 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Summer Azure | 3 | 11 | 38 | 31 | 33 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Blue sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| American Snout | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Monarch | 1 | -- | 10 | 11 | 5 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Gulf Fritillary | -- | -- | 1 | 6 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Variegated Fritillary | 8 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 41 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Diana Fritillary | 1 | -- | 1 | 1 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Great Spangled Fritillary | 9 | -- | 6 | 4 | 5 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Aphrodite Fritillary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Fritillary sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Red-spotted Purple | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Viceroy | -- | -- | 3 | 1 | 4 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Hackberry Emperor | -- | 2 | 1 | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Tawny Emperor | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 5 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Silvery Checkerspot | 1 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Pearl Crescent | 17 | 45 | 14 | 58 | 79 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Common Buckeye | 11 | 7 | -- | 20 | 59 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Question Mark | -- | -- | 5 | 6 | 8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Eastern Comma | -- | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Polygonia sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| American Lady | 1 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Painted Lady | 1 | -- | 4 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Red Admiral | 1 | -- | 3 | 5 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Goatweed Leafwing | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Southern Pearly-eye | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Northern Pearly-eye | -- | -- | 6 | 1 | 9 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Creole Pearly-eye | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Pearly-eye sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Gemmed Satyr | -- | 6 | 2 | 8 | 11 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Little Wood-Satyr | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Carolina Satyr | 5 | 5 | 17 | 8 | 53 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Common Wood-Nymph | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Total Individuals | 249 | 424 | 590 | 917 | 1498 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Total Species | 40 | 33 | 46 | 52 | 58 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Key to Observer Initials:
DRB—Douglas R. Bruce
MSF—Melinda S. Fawver
JaF—Janie C. Finch
JCF—Judy C. Fuson
AAH—Alice A. Hudson
EKL—Edmund K. LeGrand
LL—Larry Little
BL—Barbara Little
SEP—Susan E. Pirolo
RWS—Richard W. Simmers, Jr.
SJS—Stephen J. Stedman
CDW—Carol D. Williams
Creole (right) and Southern (left) pearly-eyes, photographed, literally, on Mill Creek Rd., during the 13 August 2016 Putnam County East Butterfly Count; photo Susan E. Pirolo. Previous to this encounter there were no observations of either species during 14 earlier Putnam County East Butterfly Counts.
Table 2. Results of Putnam County East Butterfly Counts, 2002–2011.
| Year | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
| Date (July/August) | 4 | 25 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 30 | 24 | 7 | 23 | 26 |
| Compiler | SJS | SJS | SJS | SJS | SJS | SJS | SJS | SJS | SJS | SJS |
| Other Observers | RWS | RWS | RWS | RWS | RWS | RWS | RWS | RWS | RWS | RWS |
| RV | RV | JuF | TS | EKL | ||||||
| BHS | BHS | BLB | ||||||||
| Total Observers | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Hours on Foot | 6 | 9.5 | 8 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 11.5 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 9.25 |
| Hours by Car | 7 | 4.5 | 5 | 6.75 | 7.75 | 4.5 | 5 | 5.5 | 8 | 3.25 |
| Total Hours | 13 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 15.25 | 16 | 15 | 11.5 | 18 | 12.5 |
| Miles on Foot | 7.5 | 5 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 3 | 5.5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| Miles by Car | 86 | 79 | 80 | 75 | 66 | 85 | 50 | 75 | c. 100 | 72 |
| Total Miles | 93.5 | 84 | 82.5 | 78.5 | 69 | 85.5 | 54 | 78 | c. 107 | 75 |
| Start CDT | 0800 | 0920 | 0830 | 0645 | 0725 | 0831 | 0800 | 0830 | 0700 | 0740 |
| End CDT | 1800 | 1650 | 1643 | 1700 | 1725 | 1720 | 1715 | 1700 | 1800 | 1740 |
| Sky AM | clear | clear | m clo | m cle | m cle | p clo | clear | clear | clear | m cle |
| Sky PM | clear | m cle | m clo | m cle | m cle | m cle | p cle | clear | clear | m cle |
| Sunshine % AM | 100 | 100 | 40 | 90 | 90 | 60 | 95 | 100 | 90 | 80 |
| Sunshine % PM | 100 | 100 | 40 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 75 | 100 | 90 | 80 |
| Wind AM (mph) | 0 | 0 | 0–5 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wind PM (mph) | 0–5 | 0–5 | 0–5 | 0–5 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–5 | 0–2 | 5 | 0 |
| Low Temp. (F) | 75 | 59 | 70 | 73 | 68 | 75 | 74 | 77 | 75 | 77 |
| High Temp. (F) | 98 | 88 | 92 | 95 | 85 | 89 | 84 | 90 | 93 | 92 |
| Total Species | 29 | 39 | 34 | 39 | 36 | 40 | 38 | 37 | 45 | 42 |
| Silver-spotted Skipper | -- | 152* | 118 | 171 | 268 | 19 | 114 | 94 | 162 | 467 |
| Long-tailed Skipper | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Hoary Edge | 1* | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| Northern Cloudywing | 1* | 1 | 1 | 3 | -- | 3 | -- | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Southern Cloudywing | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 |
| Hayhurst's Scallopwing | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Horace's Duskywing | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 5 |
| Wild Indigo Duskywing | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Duskywing Sp. | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Com./White Checkered-Skipper | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 12 |
| Common Sootywing | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Swarthy Skipper | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 |
| Clouded Skipper | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 3 | -- | 5 | -- | -- | -- |
| Least Skipper | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| Fiery Skipper | -- | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 1 | -- | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Sachem | 1 | 35 | 30 | 78 | 136 | 27 | 84 | 6 | 26 | 68 |
| Peck's Skipper | -- | 7 | 3 | 41 | 26 | 1 | 2 | -- | 4 | 10 |
| Tawny-edged Skipper | -- | -- | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | -- | -- | 2 |
| Crossline Skipper | -- | -- | -- | 8 | 8 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Northern Broken-Dash | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Little Glassywing | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Delaware Skipper | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Zabulon Skipper | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 8 | -- | 16 | 1 | -- |
| Dun Skipper | -- | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 |
| Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Common Roadside-Skipper | 2* | 5 | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Bell's Roadside-Skipper | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Ocola Skipper | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Skipper sp. | 9 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Pipevine Swallowtail | 5 | 2* | 1 | -- | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | -- |
| Zebra Swallowtail | 4 | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | -- | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| Black Swallowtail | -- | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 6 |
| Giant Swallowtail | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | 5 | 56 | 20 | 45 | 18 | 11 | 63 | 58 | 63 | 42 |
| Spicebush Swallowtail | 6 | 18 | 25 | 86 | 25 | 14 | 27 | 31 | 87 | 104 |
| Swallowtail sp. | 4 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 12 | -- | -- | -- |
| Checkered White | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 38 |
| Cabbage White | 1 | 9 | 2 | 3 | -- | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | -- |
| White sp. | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 3 | -- | -- | -- |
| Clouded Sulphur | 2 | 12 | 52 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 23 | 10 |
| Orange Sulphur | 3 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 54 | 26 |
| Cloudless Sulphur | -- | -- | 7 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 42 | 9 | 15 |
| Little Yellow | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 7 | -- |
| Sleepy Orange | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | -- | -- | 1 |
| Sulphur sp. | 8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Banded Hairstreak | 9* | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Juniper Hairstreak | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Gray Hairstreak | -- | 3 | -- | -- | 2 | 1 | 1 | -- | 2 | 2 |
| Red-banded Hairstreak | -- | 1 | 3 | -- | -- | -- | 3 | 2 | 1 | -- |
| Eastern Tailed-Blue | 1 | 23 | 3 | 35 | 26 | 72 | 28 | 27 | 23 | 43 |
| Summer Azure | 2 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 23 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 5 |
| Blue sp. | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| American Snout | 2 | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Monarch | -- | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| Gulf Fritillary | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Variegated Fritillary | 3 | -- | 3 | 8 | 6 | 32 | 6 | 6 | 32 | 25 |
| Diana Fritillary | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -- | 3 |
| Great Spangled Fritillary | 4 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 4 | -- | 12 | 61 | 14 | 40 |
| Aphrodite Fritillary | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Fritillary sp. | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Red-spotted Purple | 15 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 5 |
| Viceroy | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 | 1 |
| Hackberry Emperor | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 2 | 2 |
| Tawny Emperor | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Silvery Checkerspot | -- | 9 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 21 |
| Pearl Crescent | 9 | 31 | 14 | 26 | 15 | 127 | 9 | 60 | 46 | 75 |
| Common Buckeye | -- | -- | 2 | 3 | -- | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 58 |
| Question Mark | 3 | 5 | -- | 3 | -- | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Eastern Comma | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Polygonia sp. | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| American Lady | -- | 5* | -- | 4 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 |
| Painted Lady | -- | 1* | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Red Admiral | 2* | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | 3 | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| Goatweed Leafwing | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Southern Pearly-eye | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Northern Pearly-eye | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Creole Pearly-eye | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Pearly-eye sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Gemmed Satyr | 2 | 8* | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | -- | -- |
| Little Wood-Satyr | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Carolina Satyr | -- | 17 | 55 | 14 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 8 |
| Common Wood-Nymph | 4* | 2 | 2 | -- | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Total Individuals | 122 | 456 | 405 | 623 | 658 | 444 | 454 | 484 | 656 | 1117 |
| Total Species | 29 | 39 | 34 | 39 | 36 | 40 | 38 | 37 | 45 | 42 |
* = Photographed on count day or shortly thereafter (see below).
Key to Observer Initials:
BLB—Brad L. Beatty
JCF—Judy C. Fuson
EKL—Edmund K. LeGrand
RWS—Richard W. Simmers, Jr.
BHS—Barbara H. Stedman
SJS—Stephen J. Stedman
TS—Tisha Stedman
RV—Rita Venable
Photographs (SJS) of some butterflies listed for 2003 may be viewed by clicking on the appropriate link below:
Photographs (SJS) of some butterflies listed for 2002 may be viewed by clicking on the appropriate link below (the photos of Banded Hairstreak and Common Wood-Nymph were obtained at the exact sites where indiviudals of these species were found during the count):
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