Chattahoochee Natl. Forest, GA

[Mark Walker]

In town for a big communications conference, I spent Sunday (after church in
Dalton, GA) in the Appalachians.  I covered about 3000 ft. in elevation,
with considerable species diversity (in approximate order of numbers):

Papilio troilus (Spicebush Swallowtail) - > 100
Epargyreus clarus (Silver Spotted Skipper) - > 100
Speyeria cybele (Great Spangled Fritillary) - > 50
Megisto cymela (Little Wood Satyr) - > 25
Papilio glaucus (Eastern Tiger Swallowtail) - 8
Satyrium calanus (Banded Hairstreak) - 7
Celastrina ladon (Spring Azure) - 6
Everes comyntas (Eastern Tailed Blue) - 6
Clouded Sulpher (Colias philodice) - 4
Phyciodes tharos (Pearl Crescent) - 4
Junonia coenia (Buckeye) - 2
Vanessa atalanta (Red Admiral) - 2
Vanessa virginiensis (American Painted Lady) - 1
Limenitis arthemis astyanax (Red Spotted Purple) - 1
Strymon melinus (Gray Hairstreak) - 1
Cloudless Sulpher (Phoebis sennae) - 1
Euptoieta claudia (Variegated Fritillary) - 1
Thorybes bathyllus (Southern Cloudywing) - 1

Tomorrow Boston has a projected temperature of 98 F.  What's up with that?
Anything interesting going on up there?

Mark Walker.
Atlanta, GA