August 2013 Sightings

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman St. Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey with Alan Wells
Sun & clouds, low 70’s
One fresh Appalachian Brown among five worn.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 17
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Northern Pearly-eye 2
  • Appalachian Brown 6
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 1

Appalachian Brown

Appalachian Brown

Jean Gutsmuth, Chris Herz, & Dave Amadio

Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve
Bucks County, PA

Observations made from 3:20 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 40
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 10
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Juniper Hairstreak 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 5
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Peck's Skipper 9
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 4

Michael Diederich

Spring Road Butterfly Garden, Spring Road, Chappaqua, New York
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 7
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 5

Jim Wilkinson

Daniels Area, Patapsco Valley State Park
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 15
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Question Mark 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Northern Pearly-eye 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 2

Northern Pearly-eye

Question Mark

Red-spotted Purple

Mike Reese

Private land near Cassville
Grant County, WI

Karl & Dorothy Legler found a small colony of this species in late July and I was finally able to see my first Wisconsin Cloudless Sulphur. (This species was last seen there on September 18 by Karl & Dorothy.)

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Little Yellow 12

Cloudless Sulphur

Cloudless Sulphur

Jeff Pavlik

Webber Dam. Location is between Ionia and Lyons
Ionia County, MI

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Dennis Holmes

Near Drakesbad Guest Ranch in Lassen Volcanic NP.
Plumas County, CA

Most of the males were in tatters but the females were nice!

  • Pine White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Edith's Copper 1
  • Boisduval's Blue 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 25
  • Great Basin Fritillary 1
  • Hydaspe Fritillary 4
  • Field Crescent 2

Great Spangled Fritillary

Great Spangled Fritillary

Karlo and Alison Mirth

Nellie Hill Preserve, Dover Plains
Dutchess County, NY

We went with the hopes of seeing Giant Swallowtails. We weren’t disappointed, but the real treat was seeing 7 Juniper Hairstreaks, 6 of which were nectaring on Queen Anne’s Lace.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 4
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail common
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Juniper Hairstreak 7
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Viceroy 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper common
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 1

Linda Cooper

Myakka River State Park - South Powerline Rd, pull offs and roadsides.
Sarasota County, FL

Belinda Perry and Linda Cooper as part of an ongoing state park survey. Weather was good but area is very wet. Not many nectar plants in flatwoods but powerline and roadsides had nectar plants. Brazilian Skipper was caterpillars only.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 16
  • Dainty Sulphur 5
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 3
  • Little Metalmark 1
  • Phaon Crescent 8
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 2
  • Viceroy 10
  • Queen 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 2
  • White Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Delaware Skipper 5
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Brazilian Skipper 5 cats

Allan R. Loudell

Convenience store wall south of Northeast, Maryland
Cecil County, MD

Red-banded Hairstreak resting on convenience store wall along with various moths

  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1

Martin Reid

National Butterfly Center
Hidalgo County, TX

Sunny and hot; I was present from c. 10.40am until c.2.30pm. Also present were Sheridan Coffey, Dan Jones, John Rosord, and others

  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Great Southern White 6
  • Giant White 2
  • White Angled-Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 8
  • Large Orange Sulphur 45
  • Little Yellow 8
  • Cassius Blue 2
  • American Snout 500
  • Gulf Fritillary 15
  • Mexican Fritillary 2
  • Bordered Patch 1
  • Phaon Crescent 100
  • Question Mark 3
  • White Peacock 2
  • Band-celled Sister 1
  • Mexican Bluewing 3
  • Dingy Purplewing 1
  • Gray Cracker 7
  • Tailed Cecropian 1
  • Ruddy Daggerwing 1
  • Tropical Leafwing 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 10
  • Empress Leilia 2
  • Tawny Emperor 100
  • Queen 20
  • White-striped Longtail 1
  • Brown Longtail 7
  • Mournful Duskywing 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 6
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Laviana White-Skipper 12
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 2
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Common Mellana 1
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 1

Tailed Cecropian

Ruddy Daggerwing

Tailed Cecropian

David Larson

Big Bend National Park, Rio Grande Village, Nature Trail
Brewster County, TX

Observed one Dingy Purplewing (Eunica monima) at 0815 am, Rio Grande Village Nature Trail, flying around the floating boardwalk over the pond. The butterfly landed multiple times on the boardwalk and then would fly over the water. Left fw showed wear.

  • Dingy Purplewing 1

Dingy Purplewing

Dingy Purplewing

Laurel Rhodes

Myakka River State Park
Sarasota County, FL

Second 2013 survey. Participants: Dave and Marga Cutler, Linda Cooper, Mike Stanfield, Dusty and Laurel Rhodes, Belinda Perry.
Extremely wet conditions. 80% sun, temp. 88-93F. 31 species. Images: D. Rhodes, L. Cooper.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 12
  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 21
  • Cloudless Sulphur 16
  • Barred Yellow 13
  • Little Yellow 52
  • Dainty Sulphur 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 4
  • Ceraunus Blue 6
  • Little Metalmark 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 24
  • Zebra Heliconian 7
  • Common Buckeye 24
  • White Peacock 8
  • Viceroy 40
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Queen 19
  • Soldier 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 7
  • Zarucco Duskywing 2
  • White Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Southern Skipperling 3
  • Fiery Skipper 11
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 6
  • Delaware Skipper 12
  • Palmetto Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Brazilian Skipper 5 cats

Tawny-edged Skipper

Delaware Skipper

Eric Finkelstein

Del Rio
Val Verde County, TX

Residential area in south Del Rio

  • Many-banded Daggerwing 1

Many-banded Daggerwing

Rich Kelly, Seth Ausubel, Patricia Aitken

Floyd Bennett Field
Kings County, NY

  • American Snout 4

Rich Porricelli

Edgewood Preserve
Suffolk County, NY

  • Black Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Pearl Crescent
  • American Lady
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Common Wood-Nymph
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Horace's Duskywing
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Sootywing
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Little Glassywing
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper
  • Dun Skipper

Ann N. James

Princeton Road, Menlo Park
San Mateo County, CA

Having Jane Scott and Jeff Glassberg as house guests is a super way to get to see unusual butterflies in your back yard, or down the street!

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Mournful Duskywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 15

Jeanette Klodzen

Lambs Canyon Trail
Salt Lake County, UT

Lots of different frits — just can’t ID them
Great Spangled Frit - mostly females (one male)

Can’t forget the moose - it came out of the brush across the stream

  • Mustard White 5+
  • Purplish Copper 1
  • Colorado Hairstreak 4
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 10+

Moose

Colorado Hairstreak

Colorado Hairstreak

Great Spangled Fritillary

Allan R. Loudell

Cape May Bird Observatory Garden, Goshen
Cape May County, NJ

My first Monarch of the year, and indeed, I almost missed it, as it was flying over the parking lot as I was driving in.

Monarch scarcity at this location at this time of year stunning!

For that matter, complete absence of Vanessa species is also very unusual. And only my first Buckeye this year.

  • Black Swallowtail 20+
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 20+
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 25+
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Juniper Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 20+
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Little Glassywing 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 10
  • Broad-winged Skipper 50+
  • Dun Skipper 4

Martin Reid

Hidalgo Pump House
Hidalgo County, TX

about 1 hour in the late morning

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Large Orange Sulphur 10
  • Lyside Sulphur 25
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Clytie Ministreak 40
  • Marine Blue 6
  • Ceraunus Blue 4
  • Reakirt's Blue 1
  • Fatal Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 65
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Bordered Patch 1
  • Phaon Crescent 15
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • White Peacock 5
  • Tawny Emperor 25
  • Queen 12
  • White-striped Longtail 1
  • Brown Longtail 2
  • Clouded Skipper 5
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Sachem 2
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 3
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Brazilian Skipper 1

Clytie Ministreak

Michael Diederich

Spring Road Butterfly Garden, Spring Road, Chappaqua, New York
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 6
  • Dun Skipper 1

Karen Talasco

Riverdale, my backyard both species on dark purple butterfly bush at same time.
Morris County, NJ

First time in 6 years living here I’ve ever seen a Red-spotted purple. I have seen Question marks in the past, but this years overall butterfly counts are practically nonexistent compared to last year. No Monarchs at all, very unusual, no Painted Ladies, nothing on my milkweed this year. :(

  • Question Mark 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1

John Lampkin

Rockland Country Club Golf Course
Rockland County, NY

Periodic survey with Matt Ceplo, Groundskeeper
69-76 degrees, sunny
Only two dark morphs of the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail as compared to many seen yesterday in Sussex Co. NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 53
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 12
  • Cabbage White 14
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 15
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Peck's Skipper 9
  • Zabulon Skipper 7
  • Broad-winged Skipper 3

MaryAnn Friedman

Stanfordville
Dutchess County, NY

While visiting family here ( I live in FL) it was shocking to find a Giant Swallowtail visiting my Aunt’s fantastic garden! Many Silver-Spotted Skippers and Red Spotted Purples.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail common
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail common
  • Cabbage White common
  • American Copper 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue common
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 8
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 7
  • Red-spotted Purple common
  • Northern Pearly-eye 2
  • Common Ringlet common
  • Common Wood-Nymph 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper abundant
  • Horace's Duskywing 5
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Giant Swallowtail

Greg Dysart

World's End, The Trustees of Reservations, Hingham MA
Plymouth County, MA

Large colony of 2nd brood Juniper Hairstreaks

  • Juniper Hairstreak 42

Juniper Hairstreak

Steven Glynn

Pondecherry NWR and Whitefield Airport area
Coos County, NH

Below average temp (mid-60’s) and near constant cloud coverage, made for a tough day for finding butterflies.

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Harvester 1
  • Atlantis Fritillary 3
  • Silver-bordered Fritillary common
  • Northern Crescent 2
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell 1
  • White Admiral common
  • Viceroy 2
  • Northern Pearly-eye common
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1

Viceroy

Milbert's Tortoiseshell

Atlantis Fritillary

Harvester

White Admiral

Northern Pearly-eye

Rick Borchelt

US National Arboretum
District of Columbia, DC

Two hours in early afternoon, partly cloudy, warm (80F) and dry. The butterfly garden benefits from being kept a little on the weedy side by furloughs of the federal arboretum grounds staff. Red-banded Hairstreaks have rebounded in the current brood from very small flights earlier in the year throughout the mid-Atlantic; female Zabulons emerged this week to fly with males that emerged last week. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail numbers have dropped dramatically this week and most flying adults are showing a lot of wear. Abundant nectar, including clethra, buddleia, various perennial sunflowers, vitex, partridge pea, senna and various mints.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail common
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White common
  • Sleepy Orange 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Silvery Checkerspot 3
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper common
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 3
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Little Glassywing common
  • Zabulon Skipper 5
  • Dun Skipper 2

Variegated Fritillary

Viceroy

Little Glassywing

Red-banded Hairstreak

Shane Patterson

Sedan Bottoms WMA
Appanoose County, IA

Time: 15:30-18:45
Weather: 84-82 °F, mostly sunny to partly cloudy, humid, and calm.
Habitat: I focused the majority of the visit in nicely restored mesic prairie/meadow and sunny woodland margins at the property’s western extent; Liatris pycnostachya, Monarda fistulosa, and Pycnanthemum virginianum were blooming abundantly. I spent the remaining time (18:00-18:45) along fields, sloughs, and gravel roadsides down in the namesake lowlands.
Notes: This is the second year in a row that I have encountered Southern Cloudywing late July-Aug at this location. Among smaller species on this visit, Tawny-edged Skippers were most conspicuous, as males were persistently swirling up to chase off invaders, including bees and wasps.

  • Black Swallowtail 18
  • Giant Swallowtail 8
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cabbage White 25
  • Clouded Sulphur 35
  • Orange Sulphur 80
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Bronze Copper 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 55
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 12
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 35
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent 25
  • Question Mark 1
  • Gray Comma 6
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Common Buckeye 30
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 8
  • Common Wood-Nymph 24
  • Monarch 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Southern Cloudywing 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 22
  • Northern Broken-Dash 6
  • Sachem 1
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 3

Southern Cloudywing

Gray Comma

Rich Porricelli

Lido Beach Passive Nature Area, Lido Beach, NY
Nassau County, NY

  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • White M Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • American Snout
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Red Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Monarch
  • Sachem
  • Broad-winged Skipper

White M Hairstreak

Jim Springer

South Branch Preserve
Morris County, NJ

Acres of Partridge Pea at the preserve but no Little Yellows as occurred in last year’s mass movement in the state.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 53
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 21
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 13
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 32
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • American Lady 1
  • Viceroy 3
  • Common Wood-Nymph 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 9
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 9
  • Northern Broken-Dash 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 8

Cloudless Sulphur

Warren A. Jacobs

SGL 56
Bucks County, PA

  • Zabulon Skipper common

Zabulon Skipper

Mike A Rickard

Mission
Hidalgo County, TX

Ginny spotted this Broken Silverdrop in our front yard. It’s a Lifer for us both. It turned up again the next day in the yard of our neighbors the Dauphins.

  • Broken Silverdrop 1

Broken Silverdrop

Vincent Corsello

Wawayanda Lake,Wawayanda State Park,Vernon
Sussex County, NJ

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 16
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 8
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Broad-winged Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 1

Warren A. Jacobs

Fulmer Rd Lower Frederick Twp
Montgomery County, PA

a first here at my own backyard!

  • Sleepy Orange 1

Sleepy Orange

Steven Rosenthal

Lido Preserve, Point Lookout, NY
Nassau County, NY

following up on Rich Porricelli’s post (and with addtional details from Rich) I was able to pick up at least one white-m hairstreak late in the afternoon despite constant overcast skies, i didnt see some of Rich’s same species, including the snout, but can add the two posted here (Amer. lady, red banded hairstreak) plus a few other details…. question marks all fresh

  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1 very fresh
  • Question Mark 16+
  • American Lady 1 very fresh
  • Monarch 4

Jim Wilkinson

University of Maryland Central Farm
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Common Sootywing 1

Common Sootywing

Todd Eiben

Euclid Creek Resevation
Cuyahoga County, OH

The numbers were very high as the 2nd brood of a couple of skippers are very strong this year!

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 65
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 14
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 34
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 7
  • Least Skipper 83
  • Peck's Skipper 71
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 48

Dave Hanson and David Bratley

Highway A south of Superior
Douglas County, WI

Also in Bayfield County we saw a Green Comma at my cottage near Washburn.

  • Bog Copper 5
  • Dorcas Copper 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary common
  • Aphrodite Fritillary 4
  • Atlantis Fritillary common
  • Silver-bordered Fritillary 1
  • Purplish Fritillary 12
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eyed Brown 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Long Dash 5
  • Dion Skipper 12
  • Dun Skipper abundant

Bog Copper

Dorcas Copper

Jim Wilkinson

Mission Viejo
Orange County, CA

butterflies nectaring on lantana

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Monarch 1

Giant Swallowtail

Gulf Fritillary

Monarch

Steven Glynn

Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation
Cuyahoga County, OH

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White common
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • American Copper 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue common
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 9
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent common
  • Red-spotted Purple 4
  • Viceroy 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 4
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Common Sootywing 6
  • Least Skipper common
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper common

Jim Wilkinson

Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary
Orange County, CA

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 2
  • Mormon Metalmark 1

Mormon Metalmark

Jeff Pavlik

Lansing, my backyard
Ingham County, MI

small city yard about 75 ft X 120 ft.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3

Michael Diederich

Spring Road Butterfly Garden, Spring Road, Chappaqua, New York
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Peck's Skipper 5
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman St. Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey.
With Alan Wells and Jane Lampkin
74-77, sun & clouds
Appalachian Browns varied from worn to fresh

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 26
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Appalachian Brown 16
  • Common Wood-Nymph 4
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 9
  • Zabulon Skipper 11
  • Broad-winged Skipper 2

Allan R. Loudell

Backyard garden & front lawn, Bear
New Castle County, DE

Continue to see Eastern Tiger Swallowtails, sunny or dreary…
First-ever Red-Spotted Purple by my house…

Also saw my first Cloudless Sulphur of this year flying above Route 40.

Still, no Monarchs or Vanessa species…

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5, inc. 1 black female
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Jeffrey Glassberg

Horseshoe Bend Park, Kingwood
Hunterdon County, NJ

part of a NABA-NJ field trip, this is only what I saw. Gray Commas have been rarely reported from NJ. Sleepy Orange is having a good year — moving north.

  • Black Swallowtail 12
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 200
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 100
  • Cabbage White 150
  • Clouded Sulphur 60
  • Orange Sulphur 400
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • American Copper 2
  • Juniper Hairstreak 3
  • White M Hairstreak 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 75
  • American Snout 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Gray Comma 3
  • American Lady 3
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 75
  • Horace's Duskywing 10
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 45
  • Peck's Skipper 125
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 100
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 225
  • Dun Skipper 2

Zabulon Skipper

Horace's Duskywing

Silver-spotted Skipper

American Snout

Gray Comma

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Tawny-edged Skipper

William A. Straub

56 Elm Street, Potsdam NY (residential flower garden)
St. Lawrence County, NY

During a weekend visit to Northern New York we witnessed two different Giant Swallowtails fluttering from flower to flower. We looked for the butterflies the following day and sure enough they were back to feed again. Here are two pictures of the same butterfly.

  • Giant Swallowtail 2

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Steven Rosenthal, Rich Porricelli

Lido Preserve, Point Lookout, NY
Nassau County, NY

An unplanned meet-up with Rich P resulted in coverage from 10am-1pm and the best diversity of the year at this site, highlighted by the continuing multiple White M Hairstreaks (but no snout).

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • White M Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 5
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Monarch 2
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 3
  • Sachem 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 5
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1

Warren A. Jacobs

Fulmer Rd Lower Frederick Twp
Montgomery County, PA

A decade ago this would have been an unusual sighting. But for the past few years I’ve seen them fairly regularly. This individual doesn’t look like it’s experienced any sort of long journey to get here.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1

Cloudless Sulphur

Jim Wilkinson

Thomas F. Riley Wilderness Park
Orange County, CA

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Marine Blue 1
  • Lorquin's Admiral 8
  • California Sister 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 2
  • Funereal Duskywing 1

California Sister

Carole Mebus

South of Easton, PA near the Delaware River
Northampton County, PA

Not seeing a diversity of species this summer here in Eastern PA. A neighbor, Bob Schmidt, however, photographed this Giant swallowtail in his yard this morning.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Giant Swallowtail

Michael Diederich

Spring Road Butterfly Garden, Spring Road, Chappaqua, New York
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

John Lampkin

Skylands Botanical Gardens
Bergen County, NJ

With Jane Lampkin
70-73 sunny

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 17
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 4
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 15
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Mike Reese, Joel Dunnette, Anna Lovrien

Weaver Dunes Scientific and Natural Area
Wabasha County, MN

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 8
  • Little Yellow 12
  • American Copper 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
  • Regal Fritillary 41
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Common Wood-Nymph 14
  • Monarch 4

Karen Talasco

Riverdale, my backyard, on purple butterfly bush.
Morris County, NJ

Mostly sunny, windy, high 70’s.

  • Hackberry Emperor 1

Hackberry Emperor

Warren A. Jacobs

Friedensburg Rd, Oley- vicinity of the sacred oak
Berks County, PA

  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Meadow Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Red-spotted Admiral
  • Least Skipper

Spicebush Swallowtail

Red Admiral

Least Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Saddleback Church, Lake Forest
Orange County, CA

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Marine Blue 1
  • Mormon Metalmark 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Sachem 1

Fiery Skipper

Marine Blue

Cloudless Sulphur

eric masterson

Harris Center, Hancock NH
Hillsborough County, NH

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Mike Treffert, Joe Carter

Cliff Cave County Park
St. Louis County, MO

  • Phaon Crescent 1

Vincent Corsello

Backyard Butterfly Garden,Brooklyn
Kings County, NY

  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Question Mark 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2

Rich Kelly, Seth Ausubel

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, Cove Neck
Nassau County, NY

Butterflying with the ghost of Teddy Roosevelt. Bully!

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 75
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 20
  • American Copper 7
  • Gray Hairstreak 4
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 12
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 7
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 65
  • Zabulon Skipper 50

Steven Glynn

Horseshoe Bend Park, near Kingwood
Hunterdon County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail common
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail common
  • Spicebush Swallowtail common
  • Cabbage White abundant
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur abundant
  • American Copper 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue common
  • Gray Comma 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 11
  • Hackberry Emperor 3
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Common Sootywing 2
  • Least Skipper common
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper common

Hackberry Emperor

Gray Comma

Gray Comma

Gray Comma

Gray Comma

Dave Hanson & David Bratley

Snake Trail, S.E. corner of county. (Most CBS on FR 491)
Bayfield County, WI

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 15
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 11
  • Aphrodite Fritillary 5
  • Atlantis Fritillary 1
  • Northern Crescent 2
  • Compton Tortoiseshell 1
  • White Admiral 1
  • Northern Pearly-eye 4
  • Eyed Brown 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Common Branded Skipper 149
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 28

Common Branded Skipper

Michael Diederich

Spring Road Butterfly Garden, Spring Road, Chappaqua, New York
Westchester County, NY

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman St. Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey
With Alan Wells
72 sun & clouds
Appalachian Browns varied from fresh to tattered. Courtship behavior was observed.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 21
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Appalachian Brown 14
  • Common Wood-Nymph 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Peck's Skipper 16
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 8
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1

Appalachian Brown

Chris Herz, Denise Bittle, Pat Amadio, & Dave Amadio

Chesapeake Farms, Chestertown
Kent County, MD

This is a 3300 acre site toured by auto only, no hiking permitted.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 8
  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 31
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 12
  • Checkered White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Orange Sulphur 14
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • American Snout 1
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 4
  • Viceroy 6
  • Monarch 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 8

Chris Herz, Denise Bittle, Pat Amadio, & Dave Amadio

Eastern Neck NWR
Kent County, MD

We also found 1 Spicebush Swallowtail cat on Sasafrass & 3 Question Mark cats on Hackberry. 6 of the E.Tigers were dark females.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Zebra Swallowtail 24
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 31
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 14
  • Cabbage White 7
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 7
  • White M Hairstreak 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 10
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 5
  • American Snout 12
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Question Mark 7
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 42
  • Viceroy 3
  • Hackberry Emperor 4
  • Tawny Emperor 13
  • Northern Pearly-eye 2
  • Appalachian Brown 3
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 10
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 9
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Least Skipper 11
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Little Glassywing 3
  • Sachem 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 9
  • Dun Skipper 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1

Dennis Holmes

At Scossa Ranch near Gardnerville, NV
Douglas County, NV

The females were just coming out - only saw 2. Many more males - about 20.

  • Becker's White 2
  • Nokomis Fritillary 22
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Sonoran Skipper 4

Nokomis Fritillary

Nokomis Fritillary

Nokomis Fritillary

Nokomis Fritillary

Dennis Holmes

Along Fort Sage Road at the north end of Turtle Mountain in the Fort Sage Mountains.
Lassen County, CA

The Rita (Pallid) Blues (Calneva subspecies) were easily seen on their larva host plants - Erigonum nummulare.
Exact GPS cooridinates are: N 40.06.841 W 120.04.969

  • Becker's White 10
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Rita Blue 20-30
  • Acmon Blue 2

Rita Blue

Rita Blue

Dennis Holmes

Near Ramshorn Campground in Rye Patch Canyon about 1 1/2 miles east of Hwy 395.
Lassen County, CA

  • Becker's White 2
  • Queen Alexandra's Sulphur 4
  • Square-spotted Blue 2
  • Acmon Blue 2
  • Mylitta Crescent 1
  • Northern White-Skipper 1
  • Juba Skipper 10
  • Common Branded Skipper 10

Queen Alexandra's Sulphur

Queen Alexandra's Sulphur

Allan R. Loudell

Nottingham County
Chester County, PA

2-hour walk. Each time I saw a large orangish butterfly from the distance, I was hoping to see a Monarch. But each time, it was a Great Spangled Frit. instead. Then, on final check of butterfly bush at edge of parking lot - just before leaving - a lone Monarch! One Great Spangled Frit. kept chasing it.

One Painted Lady, but absence of Vanessa species and Common Buckeyes is still noticeable.

Searched bluestem fields for Leonard’s Skipper, but no luck!

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 60+ incl. 10 black form females
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 60+
  • Cabbage White 30+
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 6
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent 15
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 10
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 20+
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 20
  • Dun Skipper 25+

John Lampkin

Kenneth L. Wilson State Park, Mt. Tremper
Ulster County, NY

74 Sunny
Ringlets were fresh, as in pic

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Common Ringlet 4
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 1

Common Ringlet

Bart Jones

Eagle Lake Wildlife Management Area
Shelby County, TN

This has been a very good year for Harvesters.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail abundant
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Little Yellow
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Dainty Sulphur
  • Harvester 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • American Snout
  • Silvery Checkerspot
  • Phaon Crescent
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Red Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Viceroy
  • Hackberry Emperor abundant
  • Tawny Emperor
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Horace's Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Clouded Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Little Glassywing
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

Michael Diederich

Spring Road Butterfly Garden, Spring Road, Chappaqua, New York
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1

Jeffrey Glassberg

Bamboo Brook Outdoor Center
Morris County, NJ

part of a NABA-NJ field trip; only species and numbers seen by myself are included

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 10
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 10
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 35
  • Southern Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 11
  • Swarthy Skipper 15
  • Least Skipper 15
  • Peck's Skipper 30
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 25
  • Crossline Skipper 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 15
  • Dun Skipper 20

Swarthy Skipper

Jeffrey Glassberg

Willowwood Arboretum
Somerset County, NJ

part of a NABA-NJ field trip; only species and numbers seen by myself are included

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 150
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 25
  • Cabbage White 25
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Orange Sulphur 30
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 15
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 8
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Common Wood-Nymph 5
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 56
  • Horace's Duskywing 10
  • Least Skipper 15
  • Peck's Skipper 35
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 25
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 20
  • Dun Skipper 20

Spicebush Swallowtail

Steven Rosenthal

Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve, Southwinds Nature Trail, Strong City KS
Chase County, KS

I had the chance to stop here over two days ahead of a business engagement, and saw a few regals from about 2-3:30. In the course of two days I only saw one other regal elsewhere in the preserve (and that was a male), these were all females, mostly on some remaining blooming ironweed. When I revisitied the same location at midday on the 18th I didnt see any.

  • Regal Fritillary 6

Ronald Hedden

Frozen Head State Park
Morgan County, TN

Still trying to figure out how this park got its name, but loved visiting it.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 5
  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail C
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 7
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Northern Pearly-eye 1
  • Carolina Satyr C
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Golden Banded-Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

John Lampkin

Rockland Country Club Golf Course
Rockland County, NY

Periodic survey.
With Jane Lampkin and Groundskeeper Matt Ceplo
72 Sun-clouds

  • Black Swallowtail 7
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 11
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 9
  • Cabbage White 35
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 32
  • Horace's Duskywing 9
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Peck's Skipper 7
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 13
  • Broad-winged Skipper 5
  • Dun Skipper 4

Andrew Block

20 Hancock Ave, Yonkers,
Westchester County, NY

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park, Columbia
Howard County, MD

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Swarthy Skipper 1

Swarthy Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Elkhorn Garden Plots
Howard County, MD

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White common
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper common
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Sachem 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Little Glassywing

Zabulon Skipper

Andrew Block

New Rochelle High School, North Ave., New Rochelle
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

Jeffrey Glassberg

Montague
Sussex County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 15
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 7
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Little Wood-Satyr 11
  • Common Wood-Nymph 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 10
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Common Ringlet

Meadow Fritillary

Jim Wilkinson

Chickamuxen Wildlife Management Area
Charles County, MD

Also saw a few Cloudless Sulphurs on nearby roads

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Question Mark 1
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Carolina Satyr 13
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Common Wood-Nymph

Carolina Satyr

Carolina Satyr

Appalachian Brown

Jim Wilkinson

Purse State Park
Charles County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Northern Pearly-eye 2
  • Carolina Satyr 2

Northern Pearly-eye

Warren A. Jacobs

Fulmer Rd Lower Frederick Twp
Montgomery County, PA

First and only so far this year.Well worn-possibly a traveller?

  • Common Buckeye 1

Common Buckeye

Rob Santry

Northwest corner of Turtle Mountain in the Fort Sage Mountains
Lassen County, CA

This is a known locale for Pallid Blue based on Gordon Pratt’s article in American Butterflies, summer 2008 issue. I’m listing the Euphilotes pallescens calneva under the Rita Blue category to conform to NABA naming conventions.
The Monarch was seen on the drive to the Fort Sage Mountains, in the town of Susanville, Lassen County, California. And the Pine whites are out in numbers in the Lassen National Forest west of Susanville.

  • Pine White 12
  • Becker's White 4
  • Queen Alexandra's Sulphur 2
  • Rita Blue 40
  • Melissa Blue 4
  • Monarch 1

Rita Blue

Rita Blue

Steven Glynn

I-81 Visitors Center/Rest Stop
Berkeley County, WV

Very nice grounds with plenty of nectar plants

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 7
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper common
  • Northern Broken-Dash common
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 7

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park, Columbia
Howard County, MD

First Buckeye this season—rare this year

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 4

Dun Skipper

Viceroy

Warren A. Jacobs

Pawling farm, Valley Forge Nat Park
Montgomery County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • American Snout 1
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Tawny-edged Skipper

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Eastern Comma

American Snout

Monarch

Rich Kelly, Al Lindberg, Mary Normandia

William Cullen Bryant Preserve
Nassau County, NY

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 20
  • Cabbage White 50
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 7
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Zabulon Skipper 15

Michael Diederich

Spring Road Butterfly Garden, Spring Road, Chappaqua, New York
Westchester County, NY

  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1

Steven Glynn

Extensive search from Connelly Springs to South Mountain SP
Burke County, NC

Various stops between points. Collective species account given.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail abundant
  • Spicebush Swallowtail common
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 14
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 11
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • American Lady 2
  • Painted Lady 5
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Red-spotted Purple 9
  • Carolina Satyr 8
  • Silver-spotted Skipper abundant
  • Hoary Edge 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper common
  • Northern Broken-Dash common
  • Little Glassywing common
  • Sachem common
  • Zabulon Skipper common
  • Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 1

Hoary Edge

Hoary Edge

Steven Glynn

Pinckney NWR and down through Pritchardville
Beaufort County, SC

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow 4
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Carolina Satyr common
  • Monarch 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 6
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Southern Skipperling 3
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Southern Broken-Dash common
  • Sachem 2

Clouded Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

Harriett Wolf

Barton Springs Nursery in Austin
Travis County, TX

  • White-patched Skipper 1

White-patched Skipper

Steven Glynn

Ralph E. Simmons State Forest
Nassau County, FL

Arrived late afternoon, in the light rain. Not expecting much, just wanted to find the place. Found a lot more than I expected and it gave a great hint to how good a spot this can be when sunny!

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Confused Cloudywing 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Whirlabout 4

Confused Cloudywing

Steven Glynn

Savannah NWR
Jasper County, SC

Sightings at either the visitors center garden or at Kingfisher Pond access area.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 9
  • Little Yellow 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Carolina Satyr common
  • Zarucco Duskywing 4
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Southern Broken-Dash 5
  • Byssus Skipper 6
  • Palatka Skipper 2
  • Berry's Skipper 1

Zebra Heliconian

Palatka Skipper

Byssus Skipper

Berry's Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Buckingham Boulevard, Harmans
Anne Arundel County, MD

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Viceroy 6
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Sachem 5

Viceroy

Common Buckeye

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman St. Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly Survey. With Alan Wells.
69-72 hazy sun
Despite appearances, the coppers are NOT mating on snow, but on the white road line.
The Appalachian Browns seen closely were fresh.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • American Copper 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 15
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Appalachian Brown 13
  • Common Wood-Nymph 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 11
  • Peck's Skipper 5
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 18

Appalachian Brown

American Copper

Rich Kelly, Mike Feder

Edgewood Preserve
Suffolk County, NY

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 15
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 55
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Pearl Crescent 10
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Common Wood-Nymph 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Common Sootywing 2
  • Swarthy Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Steven Glynn

Christmas, FL- Corner of Route 50 & FL-420
Orange County, FL

Amazing patch of activity, mid-afternoon. Location is on the corner, behind where an old blue Oldsmobile is sitting for sale.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 8
  • Barred Yellow 4
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • White Peacock 3
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Queen 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Whirlabout 6
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Juniper Hairstreak

Ocola Skipper

Zarucco Duskywing

Red-banded Hairstreak

Michael Diederich

Sylvester Manor Farm, Shelter Island, New York
Suffolk County, NY

  • Cabbage White 25
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1

Michael Diederich

CandleLite Inn, 3 South Ferry Road, Shelter Island, New York
Suffolk County, NY

All butterflies observed feeding on three Butterfly Bushes next to the CandleLite Inn.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 12
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 18
  • Sachem 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Michael Diederich

Upper Beach, Shelter Island, New York
Suffolk County, NY

  • Cabbage White 12
  • Orange Sulphur 2

Michael Drake

CMBO on rt 47
Cape May County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Sachem 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 4
  • Aaron's Skipper 6
  • Broad-winged Skipper 3

Jeanette Klodzen

Mormon Pioneer Trailhead (Jeremy Ranch Trailhead)
Morgan County, UT

unID’d White and Frit

  • Purplish Copper 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3+
  • Field Crescent 3+
  • Mylitta Crescent 2+
  • Weidemeyer's Admiral 2
  • Great Basin Wood-Nymph 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper abundant
  • Woodland Skipper abundant

John Lampkin

Skymeadow Road, Suffern [Gas pipelines]
Rockland County, NY

Periodic survey.
With Jane Lampkin
78 and sunny
The wetland meadow at its peak of beauty
Getting late for Northern Pearly Eye

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 63
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 13
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 16
  • Northern Pearly-eye 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 64
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 8
  • Dun Skipper 1

Steven Glynn

Orlando Wetlands
Orange County, FL

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Barred Yellow common
  • Little Yellow common
  • Sleepy Orange 5
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 9
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • White Peacock abundant
  • Carolina Satyr 7
  • Queen common
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Zarucco Duskywing 3
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Southern Skipperling 5
  • Whirlabout common
  • Southern Broken-Dash 3
  • Sachem 4
  • Brazilian Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Barred Yellow

Little Yellow

Kevin Hintsa

Maguire peaks , Sunol Regional Wilderness
Alameda County, CA

3 to 6 mormon metalmarks on August 24 , 2013 . Rarely if ever documented in this county .

  • Mormon Metalmark 3 to 6

Allan R. Loudell

Nottingham County Park
Chester County, PA

Two-hour walk, 10 a.m.—12 Noon, on a beautiful day…

Still a noticeable shortage of Monarchs and Vanessa species, although the three Red Admirals seen were very fresh!

Still abundant Swallowtails, but some are getting ragged!

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 15, inc. 1 black female
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 40+
  • Cabbage White 20+
  • Orange Sulphur 6, inc. 1 white female
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 17
  • Pearl Crescent 75+
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 7
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 40+
  • Dun Skipper 15

Steven Rosenthal

Lido Passive Nature Preserve, Pt. Lookout/Lido Beach, NY
Nassau County, NY

seen briefly at 2pm as i was getting into my car to leave. Nothing else out of the ordinary, a couple of monarchs and buckeyes, no hairstreaks.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1

Don Sutherland

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail C
  • Spring Azure 1

"Summer' Spring Azure

Jim Wilkinson

Robinson Nature Center
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Sleepy Orange 8
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Sleepy Orange

Swarthy Skipper

Sleepy Orange

Allan R. Loudell

Lep Garden, University of Delaware, south Newark
New Castle County, DE

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7, inc. 1 black female
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 50+
  • Orange Sulphur 30+, inc. 1 white female
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 15+

Ahmet Baytas

Eagle Rock Reservation
Essex County, NJ

First county record of Giant Swallowtail.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 7
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Vincent Corsello

Backyard Butterfly Garden,Brooklyn
Kings County, NY

  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 7
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Steven Glynn

Aripeka Sandhills Preserve
Pasco County, FL

Very brief visit, as it began to rain and I was at the end of a long day.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Common Buckeye

Steven Glynn

Florida Botanical Gardens (Largo)
Pinellas County, FL

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 8
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • White Peacock common
  • Monarch 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 3
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Whirlabout 6
  • Sachem 1
  • Monk Skipper 1

Monarch

Monk Skipper

Steven Glynn

Boyd Hill Nature Park
Pinellas County, FL

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Giant Swallowtail 4
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 4
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • White Peacock abundant
  • Queen 8
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 5
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Whirlabout common

Cloudless Sulphur

Giant Swallowtail

Polydamas Swallowtail

Clouded Skipper

Steven Glynn

Fort DeSoto State Park
Pinellas County, FL

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Barred Yellow common
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Dainty Sulphur 2
  • Cassius Blue common
  • Ceraunus Blue abundant
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Mangrove Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock common
  • Monarch 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Whirlabout common
  • Sachem 2

Three-spotted Skipper

Cassius Blue

Mangrove Buckeye

Ceraunus Blue

Karlo and Alison Mirth

Croton Point Park
Westchester County, NY

The Hackberry Emperor was seen on a Hackberrty tree near the Nature Center.

  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur 5-10
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Pearl Crescent common
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 3
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper abundant
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing common
  • Least Skipper 5-10
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Sachem 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper common
  • Dun Skipper 3

Allan R. Loudell

Along Dutch Neck Road (mostly marshy area) south of the C & D Canal & south of Delaware City
New Castle County, DE

For a change, the first butterfly I saw on arrival was a Monarch!
But only saw two others. In other years, many more would be observed.

Absence of Common Buckeyes is striking; normally, they’d be all over the road!

2nd brood of Bronze Coppers; of those opening wings, all were males.

Nice emergence of Black Swallowtails here, and in my back yard!

  • Black Swallowtail 15
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5, inc. 1 black female
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 20
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Orange Sulphur 15
  • Bronze Copper 10
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 13
  • Viceroy 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Least Skipper 6

Warren A. Jacobs

Fulmer Rd Lower Frederick Twp
Montgomery County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Pearl Crescent
  • American Lady
  • Monarch
  • Common Sootywing
  • Least Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper
  • Dun Skipper

American Lady

Pearl Crescent

Dun Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Harry Zirlin

Ward Pound Ridge
Westchester County, NY

Wasn’t really looking for butterflies - - these were casually observed while looking for beetles.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 10
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 7
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • American Copper 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 15
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 12
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Question Mark 1
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Viceroy 3
  • Appalachian Brown 13
  • Common Wood-Nymph 12
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 8
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Thomas Jantscher

Sedan Bottoms WMA
Appanoose County, IA

Sightings recorded over 4 hours and 50 minutes between 9:30 am and 3:45 pm. Temperature: 78F - 95F, sunny, some wind. Habitat: Moist bottomland with riverside woods, fields, and marshes, and upland woods with mature forest and some adjacent grassy fields.

Surprisingly low numbers of Clouded and Orange Sulphurs (and others), and no Sachem or Fiery Skipper. Many Pearl Crescents puddling at moist sandy streambeds.

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 25
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 10
  • Dainty Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 5
  • Pearl Crescent 115
  • Question Mark 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 15
  • Red-spotted Admiral 3
  • Viceroy 11
  • Hackberry Emperor 3
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Common Sootywing 3
  • Least Skipper 48
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Delaware Skipper 30
  • Zabulon Skipper 3
  • Dun Skipper 5

Zabulon Skipper

Common Buckeye

Jim Wilkinson

Ravenwood Road
Dorchester County, MD

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Sleepy Orange 6
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 1

Jim Wilkinson

New Bridge Road
Dorchester County, MD

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Orange Sulphur 8
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 13
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Viceroy 3
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 12
  • Least Skipper 15
  • Sachem 1

Sleepy Orange

Cloudless Sulphur

Robert Cole Morgan

My garden in Mount Vernon
Westchester County, NY

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Craig Miller

McKinney
Collin County, TX

possible White Angled-Sulpur (Anteos clorinde) in backyard. Ex. large—3+ in., white above, black forewing spot. Underside lime green with angled wing & bulging veins-lighter in color than background of underwing. Landed on Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana), allowing good view of closed underwing. took off before I could get a photo. Listed as “occ: in Rio Grande Valley, but individuals do wander north in late summer. We have had steady south winds in Dallas area & warm temps. Has anyone seen this species in Dallas Area?

  • White Angled-Sulphur 1

Steven Glynn

Highlands Hammock SP
Highlands County, FL

  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Barred Yellow 3
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Dainty Sulphur common
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Phaon Crescent superabundant
  • Pearl Crescent superabundant
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Mangrove Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock common
  • Carolina Satyr 4
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 5
  • Zarucco Duskywing 3
  • Southern Skipperling 3
  • Whirlabout common
  • Sachem 3
  • Ocola Skipper common

Zebra Swallowtail

Steven Glynn

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve
Okeechobee County, FL

  • Red-banded Hairstreak 5
  • Carolina Satyr 11
  • Queen 2
  • Northern Cloudywing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Zarucco Duskywing 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 7
  • Whirlabout common
  • Southern Broken-Dash common
  • Sachem 4
  • Delaware Skipper 3
  • Palmetto Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 6

Delaware Skipper

Tawny-edged Skipper

Southern Broken-Dash

Delaware Skipper

John Lampkin

Rockland Country Club Golf Course
Rockland County, NY

Periodic survey
With Matt Ceplo, Groundskeeper and Girl Scout Troop 4010 of Westwood, NJ
78, overcast with impending showers
First Sachems of the season

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 11
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 32
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Sachem 8
  • Zabulon Skipper 7
  • Dun Skipper 1

Sachem

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park, Columbia
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 8
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 12
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 6
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Sachem 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 1

Southern Broken-Dash

Common Checkered-Skipper

Southern Broken-Dash

Red-banded Hairstreak

Michael Diederich

Spring Road Butterfly Garden, Spring Road, Chappaqua, New York
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4

Jim Wilkinson

Elkhorn Garden Plots
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Crossline Skipper 3
  • Sachem 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Crossline Skipper

Steven Glynn

Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park
Monroe County, FL

Extensive time in the general park, special permit areas and nearby road fields. Weather was overcast throughout, with persistant periods of light rain.

  • Giant Swallowtail 9
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Large Orange Sulphur 6
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Julia Heliconian common
  • Zebra Heliconian abundant
  • Mangrove Buckeye 4
  • Mangrove Skipper 3
  • Hammock Skipper common
  • Three-spotted Skipper 6

Julia Heliconian

Three-spotted Skipper

Hammock Skipper

Mangrove Buckeye

Three-spotted Skipper

Mangrove Skipper

Vincent Corsello

Appalachian Trail Lands From Around Canal Rd To State Rt 94,Vernon
Sussex County, NJ

  • Giant Swallowtail 14
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 12
  • Cabbage White 42
  • Clouded Sulphur 23
  • Orange Sulphur 16
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 5
  • Pearl Crescent 61
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Viceroy 12
  • Hackberry Emperor 9
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Least Skipper 24
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 14

Jim Wilkinson

Elkhorn Garden Plots
Howard County, MD

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White common
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Zabulon Skipper

Common Sootywing

Red-banded Hairstreak

Red Admiral

Steven Glynn

Everglades NP- Visitors Center, Royal Palm & Long Pine Key
Miami-Dade County, FL

  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 4
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow common
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 7
  • Julia Heliconian 2
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • Phaon Crescent 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • White Peacock 8
  • Viceroy 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Three-spotted Skipper 2
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Baracoa Skipper 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1

Large Orange Sulphur

Baracoa Skipper

Viceroy

Steven Glynn

Castellow Hammock Park
Miami-Dade County, FL

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 4
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Julia Heliconian 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 6
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • White Peacock 2
  • Dorantes Longtail 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Three-spotted Skipper 2

Polydamas Swallowtail

Three-spotted Skipper

Dorantes Longtail

Linda Cooper

Bay Lake area in Lake County and Richloam WMA in Sumpter County
Lake County, FL

Lake Erie Rd to Bay Lake to Center and South Grade Roads. Mostly Spanish Needles (Bidens alba) but scattered Loosestrife and Redroot. Linda and Buck Cooper

  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Black Swallowtail 18
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 47
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 105
  • Great Southern White 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 65
  • Barred Yellow 4
  • Little Yellow 11
  • Sleepy Orange 35
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • White M Hairstreak 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 65
  • Zebra Heliconian 44
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • Common Buckeye 7
  • White Peacock 5
  • Viceroy 10
  • Carolina Satyr 13
  • Queen 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 14
  • Dorantes Longtail 94
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Confused Cloudywing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 50
  • Zarucco Duskywing 4
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 10
  • Clouded Skipper 4
  • Fiery Skipper 10
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 23
  • Southern Broken-Dash 4
  • Sachem 2
  • Delaware Skipper 8
  • Dun Skipper 4
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 19

Confused Cloudywing

Confused Cloudywing

Palamedes Swallowtail

Zebra Heliconian

Brett Budach

Konza Prairie Biological Research Station - public trail system
Riley County, KS

The Flint Hills were graced with a cool and wet August this year, allowing plants and Lepidoptera to flourish (relative to last year’s blast-furnace drought). The end of August and much of September look to be hot and dry much like is typical for our region.

I wish I saw more posts on here from the Midwest!!!!

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White common
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 7
  • Little Yellow common
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Dainty Sulphur common
  • American Snout 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 5
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 4
  • Regal Fritillary 6
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Pearl Crescent abundant
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Viceroy 1
  • Goatweed Leafwing 4
  • Hackberry Emperor 6
  • Northern Pearly-eye abundant
  • Common Wood-Nymph abundant
  • Monarch 14
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Mottled Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper abundant
  • Sachem abundant
  • Delaware Skipper abundant
  • Dun Skipper common
  • Eufala Skipper 1

Ron Arnold

my property in the town of Seneca
Wood County, WI

I was surprised to see a Common Ringlet at this uncommon time of the year.

  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Northern Crescent 1
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Greg Dell

My garden in Hockessin
New Castle County, DE

My first ever Giant Swallowtail! It stuck around long enough for me to get my camera. Last year I planted two Northern Prickly Ash shrubs with the hope that these might eventually attract some Giant Swallowtails. Did they have anything to do with this sighting? I don’t know!

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Henry Halama

northern part of the county
Ulster County, NY

Seen in the last few days of August.

  • Black Swallowtail
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • American Copper
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma
  • American Lady
  • Appalachian Brown
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Least Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper
  • Broad-winged Skipper

Rich Kelly, Mary Normandia

Planting Fields Arboretum
Nassau County, NY

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Jim Wilkinson

Robinson Nature Center
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Sleepy Orange 8
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 4

Tawny-edged Skipper

Steven Glynn

Deering Estate
Miami-Dade County, FL

Atala’s seen from the deck, viewing into the restricted area. Photos were digiscoped.

  • Giant Swallowtail 4
  • Florida White 1
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Large Orange Sulphur 2
  • Statira Sulphur 1
  • Dina Yellow 4
  • Atala 9
  • Cassius Blue 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Julia Heliconian 1
  • Zebra Heliconian common
  • Mangrove Buckeye 6
  • White Peacock common
  • Queen 4
  • Mangrove Skipper 2
  • Hammock Skipper 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Three-spotted Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Baracoa Skipper 8
  • Whirlabout 2

Dina Yellow

Statira Sulphur

Atala

Baracoa Skipper

Atala

Horace's Duskywing

Steven Glynn

Matheson Hammock Park
Miami-Dade County, FL

  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Cassius Blue 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Julia Heliconian 1
  • Mangrove Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock common
  • Ruddy Daggerwing 3
  • Monarch 2
  • Queen 5
  • Hammock Skipper 2
  • Zarucco Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Three-spotted Skipper common
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Southern Broken-Dash 4
  • Eufala Skipper 3

Tropical Checkered-Skipper

Three-spotted Skipper

Ruddy Daggerwing

Eufala Skipper

Michael Diederich

Spring Road Butterfly Garden, Spring Road, Chappaqua, New York
Westchester County, NY

First Giant Swallowtail seen at this location for 2013.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 6
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Steven Rosenthal

Lido Passive Nature Preserve, Lido Beach/Pt Lookout NY
Nassau County, NY

highlight of a mid afternoon visit, other notable species were a single gray hairstreak, several monarchs and salt marsh skippers, and a black swallowtail ovipositing on some low plants in the gravel beds of the parking area.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman St. Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey with Alan Wells
74, overcast
Appalachian Browns noticeably worn

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • American Copper 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Appalachian Brown 9
  • Common Wood-Nymph 3
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Dave Hanson and David Bratley

City of Washburn
Bayfield County, WI

This is the 12th consecutive year we have found Sachems this far north on the south shore of Lake Superior in Wisconsin.

  • Cabbage White 9
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • American Copper 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 13
  • Aphrodite Fritillary 3
  • Northern Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Sachem 1

Sachem

Dennis Holmes

Along Bully Choop Road in Whiskeytown NRA about 12 miles from Hwy 299.
Shasta County, CA

  • Coronis Fritillary 2
  • Zerene Fritillary 6
  • Lorquin's Admiral 4
  • Umber Skipper 3

Zerene Fritillary

Umber Skipper

Umber Skipper

Zerene Fritillary

Eric Curtis Cummings

Hancock
Delaware County, NY

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Steven Glynn

Hobcaw Barony Refuge and nearby areas
Georgetown County, SC

Part of NABA survey team

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail abundant
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow common
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 5
  • Eastern Pygmy-Blue 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Phaon Crescent 3
  • Pearl Crescent common
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Viceroy 2
  • Southern Pearly-eye 3
  • Appalachian Brown 2
  • Carolina Satyr common
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 6
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Southern Cloudywing 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Zarucco Duskywing 8
  • Clouded Skipper common
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout common
  • Southern Broken-Dash 4
  • Northern Broken-Dash 2
  • Sachem 2
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Byssus Skipper 1
  • Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 4
  • Salt Marsh Skipper abundant
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper

Delaware Skipper

Eastern Pygmy-Blue

Juniper Hairstreak

Southern Cloudywing

Ceraunus Blue

Twin-spot Skipper

Dennis Holmes

Deadfall Lakes Meadow Trail
Trinity County, CA

  • Western White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Zerene Fritillary 2
  • Great Basin Fritillary 6
  • Atlantis Fritillary 10
  • Mormon Fritillary 2
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Common Branded Skipper 6
  • Sandhill Skipper 20
  • Woodland Skipper 4

Mormon Fritillary

Sandhill Skipper

Common Branded Skipper

Thomas Jantscher

Noelridge Park flower gardens, Cedar Rapids
Linn County, IA

Sightings recorded from 1:55 pm - 2:50 pm
Weather: 83F - 83F, mostly sunny, calm, humid
Habitat: Large flower beds spread among lawn at public park.

First of year Painted Lady!

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 25
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 4
  • Sachem 10

Linda Cooper

Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area
Orange County, FL

Recent rains are a boon to native plants with many wildflowers in bloom. Entrance along Beehead Rd and Powerline Rd were survey areas. Small colony of Cuban Crescents are north of expected range. Linda Cooper, P. Fellers, L. Lane.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 18
  • Black Swallowtail 8
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 14
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 67
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 100
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 125
  • Barred Yellow 4
  • Little Yellow 8
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 10
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Cuban Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent 6
  • Pearl Crescent 10
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 63
  • Viceroy 26
  • Carolina Satyr 8
  • Georgia Satyr 10
  • Queen 17
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 15
  • Long-tailed Skipper 8
  • Dorantes Longtail 6
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Confused Cloudywing 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 35
  • Zarucco Duskywing 8
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 4
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 19
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 19
  • Southern Broken-Dash 7
  • Sachem 3
  • Delaware Skipper 6
  • Palmetto Skipper 4
  • Eufala Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 8
  • Ocola Skipper 32

Cuban Crescent

Cuban Crescent