Recent sightings

John Heyse

Underwood Dr., Palatka
Putnam County, FL

69F

  • Pearl Crescent 1

Pearl Crescent

Jim Wilkinson

Columbia Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Eastern Comma 1

Steven Glynn

Quitobaquito Springs
Pima County, AZ

  • Checkered White common
  • Southern Dogface 6
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Dainty Sulphur 4
  • Western Pygmy-Blue common
  • Reakirt's Blue 1
  • Painted Lady 4
  • Tropical Leafwing 1
  • Queen 3
  • Mojave Sootywing 4
  • Orange Skipperling 1

Orange Skipperling

Mojave Sootywing

Mojave Sootywing

Mojave Sootywing

Ron Smith

Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
Pinellas County, FL

(20-166). Warm and partly sunny. With J & I Gibbons. FL96

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 11
  • Cloudless Sulphur 8
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 4
  • Little Yellow 5
  • Dainty Sulphur 4
  • Oak Hairstreak 4
  • Cassius Blue 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 18
  • Phaon Crescent 3
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 4
  • White Peacock 60
  • Monarch 3
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 21
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 12

Oak Hairstreak

Great Southern White

Michael Diederich

19 Chappaqua Mountain Road Butterfly Garden, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

1:30 PM. First butterfly for 2022 at this location.

  • Mourning Cloak 1

Brian Ahern

Fremont Older Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

Seven Springs Loop Trail 1145-1530, 4 miles. Finally some sunny weather in California! Temps still in the high 50’s-low 60’s in the afternoon. “Lotus” Bramble Hairstreak was a Lifer for me.

  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Bramble Hairstreak 3
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Acmon Blue 1
  • California Tortoiseshell 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Bramble Hairstreak

Bramble Hairstreak

Bramble Hairstreak

Acmon Blue

Acmon Blue

California Tortoiseshell

David H. Bartholomew

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

Season is getting a slow start, with all the rain and more on the way. But today was sunny, mid-60s. Western Brown Elfin and Propertius Duskywing, First-of-Season. Also saw a single Variable Checkerspot caterpillar marching across the road.

  • Sara Orangetip 1
  • Brown Elfin 1
  • Spring Azure 7
  • California Tortoiseshell 2
  • Mourning Cloak 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Propertius Duskywing 1

Brown Elfin

Propertius Duskywing

Steven Glynn

Montosa Canyon
Santa Cruz County, AZ

Sunny, breezy, 68 degrees. Still slow and very little nectar in bloom as yet.

  • Two-tailed Swallowtail 2
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Bordered Patch 1
  • Texan Crescent 2
  • Tropical Leafwing 1
  • Golden-headed Scallopwing 1

Golden-headed Scallopwing

Tropical Leafwing

John Heyse

Underwood Drive, Palatka
Putnam County, FL

84F

  • Checkered White 1

Checkered White

Greg Prelich

Richloam WMA
Sumter County, FL

There’s always surprises out there. Today it was the number of Appalachian Browns and finally seeing an Elfin in Florida.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 6
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 15
  • Cloudless Sulphur 7
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Henry's Elfin 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Pearl Crescent 30
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Appalachian Brown 4
  • Carolina Satyr 4
  • Little Wood-Satyr 8
  • Northern Cloudywing 4
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Monk Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Whirlabout

Monk Skipper

Palamedes Swallowtail

Twin-spot Skipper

Henry's Elfin

Little Wood-Satyr

Dainty Sulphur

Appalachian Brown

Clifford Hence

John Heinz NWR Rt 420 entrance
Delaware County, PA

Cabbage White was in very poor shape must have had a rough winter.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 1

Cabbage White

Edward Perry IV

Mason Terrace, Melbourne
Brevard County, FL

Yard butters.

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • Cassius Blue 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Monk Skipper 1

Zebra Heliconian

Orange-barred Sulphur

Gulf Fritillary

Monarch

Monk Skipper

Scott Singer

Mariton Wildlife Sanctuary
Northampton County, PA

  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 2

Mourning Cloak

Eastern Comma

Linda Cooper

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
Okeechobee County, FL

Friends of Kissimmee Prairie butterfly walks 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. 74°-91°, partly cloudy, winds 9-13 mph. 22 participants. Nectar: thistle, daisy fleabane, spermacoce, Spanish needles.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 7
  • Great Southern White 36
  • Little Yellow 9
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Little Metalmark 10
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Phaon Crescent 16
  • Pearl Crescent 21
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 12
  • White Peacock 6
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Georgia Satyr 8
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 15
  • Southern Broken-Dash 4
  • Delaware Skipper 3
  • Palmetto Skipper 2
  • Berry's Skipper 1
  • Monk Skipper 1
  • Dusted Skipper 4
  • Twin-spot Skipper 5

White Peacock

Georgia Satyr

Dusted Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Common Buckeye

Palmetto Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Whirlabout

Little Metalmark

Twin-spot Skipper

Swarthy Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Paul Strauss

Allapattah Flats Wildlife Management Area
Martin County, FL

Nectaring on Shrubby False Buttonweed ((Spermacoce verticillata).

  • Fiery Skipper 2

Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Bart Jones

Rick Evans Grandview Prairie WMA
Hempstead County, AR

The Frosted Elfins are the subspecies hadros that is found in the Arklatex region.

  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Falcate Orangetip
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Southern Dogface
  • Little Yellow
  • Frosted Elfin 17
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Spring Azure
  • American Snout
  • Pearl Crescent
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Goatweed Leafwing
  • Gemmed Satyr
  • Monarch
  • Juvenal's Duskywing

Falcate Orangetip

Frosted Elfin

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Frosted Elfin

Frosted Elfin

Frosted Elfin

Gemmed Satyr

Gray Hairstreak

Goatweed Leafwing

Monarch

Juvenal's Duskywing

Pearl Crescent

Red-banded Hairstreak

Ron & Lori Smith

Lower Suwannee WMA
Levy County, FL

(27-198) Always worth a visit. FL93

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Zebra Swallowtail 5
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 16
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 14
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 45
  • Cloudless Sulphur 12
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Phaon Crescent 15
  • Pearl Crescent 33
  • Red Admiral 4
  • Viceroy 7
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Little Wood-Satyr 6
  • Monarch 4
  • Queen 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 2
  • Whirlabout 14
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Aaron's Skipper 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 2
  • Palatka Skipper 3

Palamedes Swallowtail

Palatka Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Broad-winged Skipper

Juniper Hairstreak

Aaron's Skipper

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

John Heyse

at home, Palatka
Putnam County, FL

81F
Cloudless Sulphur on mounding mandevilla

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 15
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Dun Skipper 2

Cloudless Sulphur

Linda Cooper

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
Okeechobee County, FL

Scouting for upcoming butterfly walks. 10 a.m.-4 pm. 71°-84°, winds 10-14. Area very dry with few wildflowers. Nectar: thistle, fleabane, Spanish needles. ACreager, KNieves, LCooper. Last hour with JBoxall, EPoropat.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 4
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 4
  • Great Southern White 6
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Little Metalmark 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 4
  • Phaon Crescent 15
  • Pearl Crescent 30
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • White Peacock 10
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Georgia Satyr 7
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 11
  • Southern Broken-Dash 3
  • Sachem 1
  • Delaware Skipper 3
  • Aaron's Skipper 3
  • Palmetto Skipper 3
  • Palatka Skipper 1
  • Berry's Skipper 3
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Aaron's Skipper

Palatka Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Phaon Crescent

Little Metalmark

Delaware Skipper

Southern Broken-Dash

Variegated Fritillary

Berry's Skipper

Berry's Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Columbia Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

  • Cabbage White 1

Cabbage White