[MDOsprey] Re: Pipevine Swallowtails
Robert Ringler (ringler@cct.infi.net)
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:14:09 -0700
For all Osprey butterfliers:
The Pipevine Swallowtails we are seeing in this area seem to be
southern immigrants. This same sort of flight happened a few years ago
as Marshall described. As Mark mentioned they are more common in western
Maryland.
On Sunday, July 11 with three other butterfly enthusiasts I did a
butterfly count in eastern Allegany County for the fifth consecutive
year. We had our best species tally ever, 38, and Pipevine was our most
common swallowtail, outnumbering the other four species combined. Here
is the tally:
Pipevine Swallowtail 20
Zebra Swallowtail 1
Black Swallowtail 3
Tiger Swallowtail 5 (including 1 black tiger)
Spicebush Swallowtail 10
Cabbage Butterfly 50 (a new high)
Clouded Sulfur 11 (a new high)
Orange Sulfur 19
American Copper 7
Coral Hairstreak 7
Banded Hairstreak 7
Northern Hairstreak 1 (endangered in Md. and not seen for some years)
Gray Hairstreak 3
Eastern Tailed Blue 12
Northern Metalmark 76
Variegated Fritillary 1
Great Spangled Fritillary 100
Aphrodite 1
Meadow Fritillary 1
Pearl Crescent 52
American Lady 6
Red Admiral 3
Red-spotted Purple (a new low)
Hackberry Butterfly 1
Tawny Emperor 3
Little Wood Satyr 1
Wood Nymph 11
Monarch 1
Silver-spotted Skipper 201
Hoary Edge 1
Horace's Duskywing 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing 6
Checkered Skipper 3
Fiery Skipper 7 (a new species for the county this southern immigrant
seems to be coming into our area very early this summer)
Little Glassy Wing 25
Sachem 3 (a new species for the county also)
Delaware Skipper 3
Dun Skipper 10
Unidentified witches 8
Total Individuals 687 by 4 observers in 1 party in 10 hours.
As for birds that day the local Broad-winged Hawks were very
vocal and showing themselves in several locations.
Bob Ringler