Butterflies recorded in 2011 from the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, Conyers, Georgia: |
first observation | January 29th | January 29th1 | February 15th2 |
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common name | 1. American snout | 2. sleepy orange | 3. eastern comma |
photo date | January 29th | February 17th | February 15th |
1 Not photographed but, like the preceding American snout, witnessed by four observers on January 29th.
2 An individual of a Polygonia species had been observed in flight on January 29th, but it could have been a question mark.
first observation | February 17th3 | February 17th4 | February 22nd |
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common name | 4. mourning cloak | 5. question mark | 6. red admiral |
photo date | February 18th | February 20th | February 22nd |
3 An individual was observed in flight on February 17th.
4 An individual Polygonia sp. was observed in flight on January 29th. The present species, Polygonia interrogationis, was photographed 2/17, but from an even worse angle than the red admiral that follows.
first observation | February 23rd | March 3rd5 | March 8th |
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common name | 7. spring azure | 8. eastern tiger swallowtail | 9. Juvenal's duskywing |
photo date | February 23rd | March 8th | March 8th |
5 Observed in flight on March 3rd by F. M. Stiteler.
first observation | March 11th | March 11th | March 11th6 |
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common name | 10. falcate orangetip | 11. cabbage white | 12. orange sulphur |
photo date | March 11th | March 11th | March 11th |
6 An unidentified Colias sp. was observed on February 19th. Dorsal orange coloration of the photographed individual was visible in flight.
first observation |
March 12th7 |
March 12th8 |
March 13th9 |
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common name | 13. eastern pine elfin | 14. great purple hairstreak | 15. Henry's elfin |
photo date | March 21st | August 26th | March 19th |
7 Photographed nectaring high in a Callery pear (photos poor but definitive). In the more recent photo, obtaining mineral salts from a roadbed.
8 Nectaring March 12 in a Callery pear (distant and with the light at a bad angle, but photo definitive). Nectaring on Verbesina virginica in the August photo.
9 Photographed March 13th nectaring high in peach tree (photos poor but definitive).
first observation |
March 16th |
March 16th |
March 17th |
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common name | 16. pearl crescent | 17. zebra swallowtail | 18. common buckeye |
photo date | March 16th | March 16th | March 17th |
first observation | March 17th10 | March 18th | March 18th11 |
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common name | 19. cloudless sulphur | 20. sleepy duskywing | 21. red-banded hairstreak |
photo date | June 2nd | March 18th | March 25th |
10 Observed in flight by F. M. Stiteler. Seen occasionally afterward but not photographed until June.
11 Observed March 18th by F. M. Stiteler.
first observation | March 19th | March 19th12 | March 19th |
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common name | 22. common checkered-skipper | 23. clouded sulphur | 24. variegated fritillary |
photo date | March 19th | March 19th | March 19th |
12 No dorsal orange coloration was visible in flight of this and several other individuals seen at the same location, with one exception; this was considered to be an orange sulphur. Both species were photographed together.
first observation | March 21st |
March 21st | March 25th |
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common name | 25. gray hairstreak | 26. American lady | 27. silver-spotted skipper |
photo date | March 21st | March 21st | March 25th |
first observation | March 25th | March 31st | April 2nd |
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common name | 28. eastern tailed-blue | 29. gemmed satyr | 30. Horace's duskywing |
photo date | March 25th | March 31st | April 2nd |
first observation |
April 2nd | April 2nd | April 11th |
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common name | 31. Carolina satyr | 32. pipevine swallowtail | 33. black swallowtail |
photo date | April 2nd | April 2nd | April 11th |
first observation |
April 12th | April 12th | April 17th13 |
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common name | 34. red-spotted purple | 35. monarch | 36. spicebush swallowtail |
photo date | April 12th | April 12th | May 20 |
13 Observed and identified through binoculars by F. M. Stiteler on April 17th.
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April 19th | April 19th | April 19th |
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common name | 37. Zabulon skipper | 38. southern pearly-eye | 39. northern cloudywing |
photo date | April 19th | April 19th | April 19th |
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April 19th14 | April 21st | May 1st |
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common name | 40. juniper hairstreak | 41. southern cloudywing | 42. summer azure |
photo date | July 18th | April 21st | May 1st |
14 The photograph of April 19th was poor but definitive.
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May 1st | May 2nd | May 2nd |
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common name | 43. hoary edge | 44. little wood-satyr | 45. Gulf fritillary |
photo date | May 1st | May 2nd | May 2nd |
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May 3rd | May 3rd | May 3rd |
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common name | 46. least skipper | 47. clouded skipper | 48. northern pearly-eye |
photo date | May 3rd | May 3rd | May 3rd |
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May 5th | May 5th | May 5th |
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common name | 49. confused cloudywing | 50. dun skipper | 51. Creole pearly-eye |
photo date | May 5th | May 5th | May 5th |
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May 7th | May 7th | May 11th |
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common name | 52. common sootywing | 53. viceroy | 54. Appalachian brown |
photo date | May 7th | May 7th | May 11th |
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May 12th | May 12th | May 14th |
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common name | 55. banded hairstreak | 56. "northern" oak hairstreak | 57. striped hairstreak |
photo date | May 12th | May 12th | May 14th |
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May 14th | May 20th | May 21st |
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common name | 58. little glassywing | 59. fiery skipper | 60. crossline skipper |
photo date | May 14th | May 20th | May 21st |
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May 25th | May 25th | May 25th |
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common name | 61. whirlabout | 62. coral hairstreak | 63. tawny-edged skipper |
photo date | May 25th | May 25th | May 25th |
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May 28th15 | May 28th16 | May 28th |
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common name | 64. southern broken-dash | 65. northern broken-dash | 66. Dion skipper |
photo date | July 29th | August 17th | May 28th |
15 Six adults observed on May 28th but none photographed.
16 One adult observed on May 28th but not photographed.
first observation |
May 28th17 | May 28th18 | June 1st |
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common name | 67. lace-winged roadside-skipper | 68. hackberry emperor | 69. Delaware skipper |
photo date | August 21st | July 2nd | June 1st |
17 One adult observed on May 28th but not photographed.
18 Two adults observed but not photographed on May 28th.
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June 3rd | June 10th | June 10th |
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common name | 70. white-M hairstreak | 71. byssus skipper | 72. Zarucco duskywing |
photo date | June 3rd | June 10th | June 10th |
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July 2nd | July 4th | July 10th |
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common name | 73. sachem | 74. common wood-nymph | 75. southern skipperling |
photo date | July 2nd | July 4th | July 10th |
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July 16th19 | July 16th | July 16th |
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common name | 76. Ocola skipper | 77. Bell's roadside-skipper | 78. Eufala skipper |
photo date | July 19th | July 16th | July 16th |
19 One adult observed on July 16th but not photographed.
first observation |
July 30th | August 6th20 | August 6th21 |
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Pierre Howard |
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common name | 79. long-tailed skipper | 80. wild indigo duskywing! | 81. swarthy skipper |
photo date | July 30th | August 6th | September 15th |
20 One individual was reported from the Monastery property during the 11th annual Monastery-sponsored NABA Butterfly Count.
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21 Two individuals were reported from the Monastery property during the 11th annual Monastery-sponsored NABA Butterfly Count.
first observation |
August 6th | August 13th22 | August 17th |
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Julia Maloney |
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common name | 82. checkered white | 83. little yellow | 84. great spangled fritillary |
photo date | August 6th | September 11, 2010 | August 17th |
22 One individual was observed on August 13th but not photographed.