August 2014 Sightings

Lisa Quartararo

Woodbridge Tswp (backyard)
Middlesex County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1

Brant Reif

Mad Creek Trail, Routt National Forest
Routt County, CO

The Sheep Moths were flying all over the hillside and seemed to keep disturbing the Colorado Hairstreaks as they were very active in the places where the Sheep Moths were flying, but relatively stationary in places without the moths.

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Western White
  • Clouded Sulphur abundant
  • Tailed Copper 1
  • Colorado Hairstreak abundant
  • Acmon Blue
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Zerene Fritillary
  • Great Basin Fritillary
  • Small Wood-Nymph

Colorado Hairstreak

Dennis Holmes

Mt Shasta and Gumboot Lake areas.
Siskiyou County, CA

  • Pine White 2
  • Western White 2
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Mariposa Copper 3
  • Sooty Hairstreak 3
  • Hedgerow Hairstreak 5
  • Brown Elfin 1
  • Lupine Blue 7
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Great Basin Fritillary 12
  • Hydaspe Fritillary 20
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell 1
  • Painted Lady 4
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Lorquin's Admiral 2
  • Common Wood-Nymph 4
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Sonoran Skipper 2

Pine White

Great Basin Fritillary

Great Basin Fritillary

Sooty Hairstreak

Hedgerow Hairstreak

Pine White

Hydaspe Fritillary

Painted Lady

Hydaspe Fritillary

Mariposa Copper

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Mary Arneson

Minneapolis (southwest corner)
Hennepin County, MN

West of Lake Harriet

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Monarch 2

John Heyse

martinez marsh, carquinez shoreline - martinez
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Mylitta Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Sandhill Skipper 2
  • Sachem 1

Jeanette Klodzen

Mormon Trail
Morgan County, UT

Had a little excitement when a female moose and her calf crossed the trail 30 ft ahead of me. There were some tense moments but they eventually move off.

  • Two-tailed Swallowtail
  • Mustard White
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Blue Copper
  • Lilac-bordered Copper
  • Coral Hairstreak 1
  • Northern Blue 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Field Crescent 1
  • Mylitta Crescent
  • Satyr Comma 2
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Weidemeyer's Admiral common
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Small Wood-Nymph common
  • Common Checkered-Skipper abundant
  • Garita Skipperling 1
  • Common Branded Skipper 1
  • Woodland Skipper abundant

David L. Amadio

Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve
Bucks County, PA

Only about a half hour’s observation during sporadic drizzle.

  • Juniper Hairstreak 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1

David L. Amadio

Horseshoe Bend Park
Hunterdon County, NJ

Observations made between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Heavy rain and thunderstorms from 12 to 1:15 p.m.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 27
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Gray Comma 4
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Peck's Skipper 21

Gray Comma

Jennifer Cole

Chester, NJ
Morris County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Russ Wilkerson

North Chili
Monroe County, NY

Finally saw a Monarch today sniffing around my milkweed. I think it was male since it didn’t seem to be interested in egg-laying.

  • Cabbage White common
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2

Peck's Skipper

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Butterflies in backyard gardens and along side of the house

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Red-spotted Admiral 1

Black Swallowtail

Red Admiral

Cabbage White

Tom Palmer

Marion Creek
Polk County, FL

Redroot and Vanilla Plant rife, but little activity in most patches.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 5
  • Black Swallowtail 12
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 15
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 7
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 16
  • Barred Yellow 14
  • Little Yellow 7
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 4
  • Ceraunus Blue 5
  • Gulf Fritillary 10
  • Zebra Heliconian 5
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Common Buckeye 12
  • Viceroy 11
  • Carolina Satyr 11
  • Queen 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Long-tailed Skipper 3
  • Southern Cloudywing 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 5
  • Zarucco Duskywing 4
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Ocola Skipper 5

Bart Jones

Eagle Lake WMA
Shelby County, TN

Bronze Copper was in same location as when found 3 years ago. Phaon Crescents were freshly emerged, first of season.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Little Yellow
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Bronze Copper
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • American Snout
  • Silvery Checkerspot
  • Phaon Crescent
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Red Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Viceroy
  • Goatweed Leafwing
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Tawny Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Northern Cloudywing
  • Horace's Duskywing
  • Least Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper

Bronze Copper

Phaon Crescent

Bryan Hoffman

Livonia
Wayne County, MI

Monarchs are becoming frequent in our area. Found one chrysalis.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White abundant
  • Monarch 10

Monarch chrysalis

Michael Diederich

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

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3

Tom Palmer

Marion Creek
Polk County, FL

Worked a different area before storms arrived. More areas to work. Very diverse basin; More than 7,000 acres of public lands.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Barred Yellow 3
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 2
  • White M Hairstreak 5
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 4
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 1
  • Viceroy 2
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Queen 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1

Lisa Laflamme

8132 Jean-brillion (fields near train track)
Montreal, QC

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Black Swallowtail

Lorrie Evans

Littleton
Arapahoe County, CO

  • Monarch 2

Monarch

Stephen Buckingham

power line cut on edge of LaPorte, PA
Sullivan County, PA

overcast drizzly day but more butterfly activity than expected

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • Aphrodite Fritillary 4
  • Atlantis Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 3
  • Monarch 1

Atlantis Fritillary

Atlantis Fritillary

Meredith Mays

South Fulton - NABA certified backyard garden
Fulton County, GA

  • Sleepy Orange 1

Sleepy Orange

Daniel Jones

National Butterfly Center, Mission
Hidalgo County, TX

10:40AM to 12:40 PM

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • White Angled-Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 10
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Texan Crescent 1
  • Vesta Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent 8
  • White Peacock 2
  • Tawny Emperor 12
  • Queen 250
  • Soldier 4
  • Brown Longtail 8
  • White Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Laviana White-Skipper 6
  • Clouded Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 1

White Angled-Sulphur

White Angled-Sulphur

White Peacock

Queens

White Angled-Sulphur

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

  • Canadian Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Red-spotted Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1

Jim Wilkinson

Chickamuxen Wildlife Management Area
Charles County, MD

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Appalachian Brown 3
  • Carolina Satyr 4
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 4

Carolina Satyr

Common Sootywing

Red-banded Hairstreak

Great Spangled Fritillary

Vivian Tonon Clugston

Backyard in Oakville, Ontario Canada
Halton County, ON

I actually saw a Monarch fly through my backyard gardens both Aug 3&4 2014. Very excited to see it return!

  • Monarch 1

Jacqueline P. Rosales

Danville home garden
Hendricks County, IN

This is the first time I’ve seen an American Snout here this year.

  • American Snout 1

American Snout

Jim Wilkinson

Red Branch Road, Columbia
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 19
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Zabulon Skipper

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey. With Tom Winner
Sunny 72-78

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 4
  • American Copper 7
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 14
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Appalachian Brown 7
  • Little Wood-Satyr 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 7
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Crossline Skipper 2
  • Northern Broken-Dash 6
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Mulberry Wing 3
  • Broad-winged Skipper 3
  • Dun Skipper 9

Rich Kelly

South Shore Nature Center, East Islip
Suffolk County, NY

  • Cabbage White 10
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 12
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 35

Melvyn Lynn

Timber Hill Drive, Monroe Twp
Middlesex County, NJ

first Monarch seen on my butterfly bush. Welcome back!

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Monarch 1

Michael Diederich

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

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3

Mary Arneson

Minneapolis (southwest corner)
Hennepin County, MN

Tigridia pavonia (a summer bulb) seems popular with the butterflies, including this tiger swallowtail. They also visit the many A. syriaca that we allow to come up everywhere. We also have tropical milkweed which we grew for places where invasive natives would be a problem. Monarchs have been using both of the milkweeds.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Monarch

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Monarch

Matthew Ceplo

Rockland Country Club
Rockland County, NY

Mostly sunny, High 80’s.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 19
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 8
  • Cabbage White 12
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 19
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Peck's Skipper 21
  • Broad-winged Skipper 17
  • Dun Skipper 1

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Great Spangled Fritillary

David L. Amadio

Backyard butterfly garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

This European Peacock flew into my garden on 8/3. It roosted under my deck’s overhead structure last night and actively nectared this morning. The butterfly’s condition strongly suggests that it did not fly here on it’s own. Possibly transported or an escapee from a commercial butterfly house.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 5
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1

European Peacock

European Peacock

European Peacock

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

A Monarch gracefully enjoying the outdoors especially aound an Asclepias tuberosa

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Red-spotted Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Monarch

Ellen Kellich

Lawrenceville
Mercer County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Red-spotted Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2

Red Admiral

Monarch

Black Swallowtail

Allen Belden

Maymont
Richmond city, VA

Maymont is a 100-acre foundation-operated estate with extensive butterfly gardens.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 10
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 38
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Fiery Skipper 12
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Little Glassywing 2
  • Sachem 19
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Variegated Fritillary

Southern Broken-Dash

Michael Diederich

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

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 5

Brant Reif

Trask family ranch along the Cheyenne River
Meade County, SD

  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Bronze Copper
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Melissa Blue
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Gorgone Checkerspot
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Red Admiral
  • Viceroy
  • Common Wood-Nymph

Daniel Jones

National Butterfly Center, Mission
Hidalgo County, TX

Very slow due to hot dry weather. 8:15-12:30

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-bordered Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • Crimson Patch 3
  • Texan Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • White Peacock 1
  • Tropical Leafwing 1
  • Empress Leilia 1
  • Tawny Emperor 25
  • Queen 75
  • Soldier 1
  • Brown Longtail 2
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Laviana White-Skipper 4
  • Common Sootywing 2
  • Clouded Skipper 23
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 3

Brown Longtail

Cloudless Sulphur

Texan Crescent

John Lampkin

Suffern, home yard
Rockland County, NY

Sun - 72-80
Giant Swallowtail is rare in Rockland County

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • Little Wood-Satyr 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Peck's Skipper 20
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 3

Giant Swallowtail

Warren A. Jacobs

Lower Frederick Twp, Colonial Dr at Gravel Pk
Montgomery County, PA

Fresh roadkill. Uncommon sighting.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Giant Swallowtail

Andrea Black

Squaw Creek Park, Marion
Linn County, IA

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Monarch 2

Giant Swallowtail

Jim Wilkinson

Plummer House Butterfly Garden
Anne Arundel County, MD

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Sachem 3

Swarthy Skipper

Kenneth Bosso

Baton Rouge backyard butterfly garden - WayStation 7700
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

  • Monarch 1

Monarch caterpillar

Michael Drake

Morris Arboretum
Montgomery County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 20
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 7
  • Cabbage White 42
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Monarch 8
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 58
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Swarthy Skipper 6
  • Peck's Skipper 6
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 8
  • Zabulon Skipper 22

Michael Diederich

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

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 12

Michael Drake

High School Park, Elkins Park
Montgomery County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 5
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 4

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Monarch 1

John Lampkin

Kittatinny Valley State Park
Sussex County, NJ

With Jane Lampkin
(part of a larger informal outing)

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Giant Swallowtail 8
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 12
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 8
  • Cabbage White 9
  • Clouded Sulphur 7
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Banded Hairstreak 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 7
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Viceroy 5
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Crossline Skipper 2
  • Northern Broken-Dash 2

Carol Welsh

Manor Township rail trail
Lancaster County, PA

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1

Brendan Cramphorn

Cedar Pond, Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary
Essex County, MA

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Monarch 4

Giant Swallowtail

Brant Reif

Deerfield Trail near Silver City, Black Hills National Forest
Pennington County, SD

One tiger swallowtail flew past, but as both the Canadian and Western fly in the area I couldn’t identify it correctly.

Atlantis Fritillary was the unsilvered “Hesperis” form as I’ve also found the silvered “Atlantis” form flying in the same area in the past.

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Melissa Blue abundant
  • Variegated Fritillary 5
  • Aphrodite Fritillary 2
  • Edwards' Fritillary 3
  • Atlantis Fritillary 8
  • Pearl Crescent abundant
  • Weidemeyer's Admiral 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4

Amanda Gazzaway

Tomball, TX...Our backyard butterfly garden
Harris County, TX

We were lucky enough to notice the caterpillar a day before he pupated. I was so excited the chrysalis was in a place where I could watch and take pictures.

  • Monarch 1

Nils Helstrom

Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve
Bucks County, PA

I am posting today to share a photo of an unusual hairstreak. There were many Juniper, Red-banded and Gray hairstreaks feeding on mountainmint… this particular individual seemed to have no color at all. It was not worn, in my opinion, but appeared to be naturally pale and colorless. I’d be interested in anyone’s thoughts on it. Incidentally, I saw no Sleepy Orange here.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5+
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Juniper Hairstreak common
  • Gray Hairstreak common
  • Red-banded Hairstreak common
  • Spring Azure 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper common
  • Least Skipper 5+
  • Peck's Skipper common
  • Zabulon Skipper common

Gray Hairstreak

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey with Alan Wells
Sunny 68-76
Pearl Crescents showed overlapping broods

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • American Copper 1
  • Banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Appalachian Brown 6
  • Little Wood-Satyr 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 5
  • Dun Skipper 3

Connie Briley Romaine

New Orleans
Orleans Parish, LA

  • Monarch 10

Jeanette Klodzen

Lamb's Canyon
Salt Lake County, UT

Started around 2pm

  • Two-tailed Swallowtail 1
  • Mustard White
  • Lilac-bordered Copper
  • Western Tailed-Blue
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Atlantis Fritillary
  • Weidemeyer's Admiral
  • Woodland Skipper

Rich Kelly, Mary Normandia

Sunken Meadow State Park
Suffolk County, NY

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 60
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 4

Zabulon Skipper

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Discovered two monarch caterpillars this a.m.! They were on the same plant as well. What a joy!

  • Cabbage White common
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Monarch 3

Monarch cateripillars

Pearl Crescent

Ellen Kellich

Lawrenceville
Mercer County, NJ

Backyard garden on Buddelia

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3

Black Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Louise Lenthe Schaefer

at my home in the borough of Emmaus PA
Lehigh County, PA

on phlox paniculata. Have huge stands of common milkweed, never saw one on the milkweed

  • Monarch 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Denise Bittle, Jean Gutsmuth, Chris Herz

Bombay Hook NWR
Kent County, DE

  • Black Swallowtail 15
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 14
  • Cabbage White 36
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 16
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 10
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 40
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 27
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Aaron's Skipper 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 19
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1

Michael Spingola

Backyard Kintnersvile, PA
Bucks County, PA

This is the sixth time I have seen a Giant Swallowtail in my yard since 2005.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Monarch 3

Adrienne Andrews

My Garden, Palm Harbor FL. Zip code 34684
Pinellas County, FL

Everybody is here! Lots of action, nectaring and egg laying! Paradise!

  • Pipevine Swallowtail x
  • Black Swallowtail x
  • Giant Swallowtail x
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail x
  • Palamedes Swallowtail x
  • Cabbage White x
  • Cloudless Sulphur x
  • Orange-barred Sulphur x
  • Cassius Blue x
  • Gulf Fritillary x
  • Zebra Heliconian x
  • Red Admiral x
  • White Peacock x
  • Viceroy x
  • Monarch x
  • Silver-spotted Skipper x
  • Florida Duskywing x

Henry Kindervatter

Henry Ford Estate, Dearborn, MI
Wayne County, MI

I took a couple of hours on my vacation to tour the Ford Estate grounds and look for butterflies. It was a beautiful day in the low 80’s with an intermittent breeze and lots of sun. The butterflies were mainly concentrated around a couple of butterfly-friendly gardens behind the house and near the side porch opposite the house. The diversity was low, due to few larval food plants, but the nectar sources were good.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 40
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 20
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 7
  • Peck's Skipper 9

'Summer' Spring Azure

Peck's Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park, Columbia
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 15
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Sachem 5
  • Dun Skipper 2

Tawny-edged Skipper

Common Buckeye

Meredith Mays

South Fulton - Atlanta
Fulton County, GA

Had to share this

  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Silver-spotted Skipper

Russ Wilkerson

North Chili
Monroe County, NY

Several Peck’s Skippers mobbed my coneflowers, while Cabbage Whites and a White Admiral flew by.

  • Cabbage White common
  • White Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Peck's Skipper 6

Peck's Skipper

Peck's Skipper

Peck's Skipper

Matt Irwin

My backyard garden
Dallas County, TX

Have 3 Monarchs flying around the garden for the last week plus. All three are males and they’re very lonely! They contantly chase each other around, thinking just maybe this time it’s a female. If one doesn’t show up soon, they may perish without being able to mate.

  • Monarch 3

Michael Diederich

Pound Ridge Reservation, Pound Ridge
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 11
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 7
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 60
  • Pearl Crescent 24
  • Viceroy 3
  • Appalachian Brown 5
  • Common Ringlet 12
  • Common Wood-Nymph 8
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 56
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Mulberry Wing 3

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark +
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Viceroy
  • Tawny Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Jeanette Klodzen

Sentry Trail - Antelope Island
Davis County, UT

  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Melissa Blue 10+
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 5
  • Yuma Skipper 1

Meredith Mays

Atlanta backyard garden South Fulton
Fulton County, GA

Tiger Swallowtail on crape myrtle, Gray Hairstreak on blanket flower

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1

Gray Hairstreak

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Tom Palmer

saddle creek park
Polk County, FL

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • White Peacock 17
  • Viceroy 2
  • Hackberry Emperor 5
  • Tawny Emperor 2
  • Carolina Satyr 9
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 3
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Sachem 2
  • Ocola Skipper 3

Question Mark

Tawny Emperor

Hackberry Emperor

Zebra Heliconian

Inga Kemp

Hardwick Backyard Butterfly garden
Warren County, NJ

Unfortunately no camera handy for the Monarch’s visit which was the only sighting in the garden so far this year.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Monarch 1

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

'Summer' Spring Azure

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Meadow Fritillary

Silver-spotted Skipper

Great Spangled Fritillary

Giant Swallowtail

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Silver-spotted Skipper

Monarch egg

Steven Rosenthal

various locations driving along Dune Road, Westhampton NY and vicinity
Suffolk County, NY

first I have seen in NY this year.

  • Monarch 6

John Lampkin

Williamstown; Mountain Meadow Preserve
Berkshire County, MA

With Jane Lampkin and Marina Soucie
78 Sunny

  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 21
  • Meadow Fritillary 9
  • Pearl Crescent 127
  • Little Wood-Satyr 1
  • Common Ringlet 12
  • Common Wood-Nymph 13
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 3
  • Dun Skipper 3

Michael Diederich

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

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 8

James L. Monroe

Industry, just off Ohio River
Beaver County, PA

2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
mostly sunny low 80’s

Eastern Tigers both females, one dark form

Note faint spot on dorsal forewing of E. Comma making it look almost like a Question Mark, dorsal and ventral views of same specimen.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 25
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Orange Sulphur 13
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Question Mark 1
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 22
  • Least Skipper 15
  • Peck's Skipper 4

Eastern Comma

Hackberry Emperor

Least Skipper

Eastern Comma

Allan R. Loudell

State Game Lands 67 in southern Huntingdon County
Huntingdon County, PA

Arriving here before dusk for a night of mothing, several butterflies were still flying after 7:40 p.m.

(By the way, a good number of Silk moths, Sphinx moths, and Underwings, but the best moth for the night was the German Cousin!)

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2

Darrell Davis

Frederick, MD
Frederick County, MD

  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1

K Talasco

Riverdale, on bi-color butterfly bush
Morris County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Michael Diederich

Camp Fire Road Power Cut, Off Camp Fire Road, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 25
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 45
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Bart Jones

Wapanocca WMA
Crittenden County, AR

  • Zebra Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Sleepy Orange
  • American Snout
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Phaon Crescent
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Viceroy
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Tawny Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Least Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Phaon Crescent

Meredith Mays

Atlanta - South Fulton County
Fulton County, GA

  • Orange Sulphur
  • Red-spotted Purple 1

Orange Sulphur

Red-spotted Purple

Jim Wilkinson

Elkhorn Garden Plots
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 12
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Sachem 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Viceroy

Fiery Skipper

Glenn Koppel

Jennings Environmental Education Center
Butler County, PA

Includes 1 Hummingbird Clearwing

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 7
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Bronze Copper 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 10
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red-spotted Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1

Meadow Fritillary

Viceroy

Bronze Copper

Red-spotted Purple

Meredith Mays

Atlanta - South Fulton - NABA certified garden
Fulton County, GA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Harry Zirlin

Ward Pound Ridge
Westchester County, NY

White Admiral was a first for me here, although I have seen photos of it taken here by others. Giant Swallowtail I believe is first record for this locality, but it was just a matter of time, as they have been recorded in recent years to both the north and south of here. Individual was very fresh.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 6
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue common
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary common
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Red Admiral 1
  • White Admiral 1
  • Appalachian Brown 3
  • Common Ringlet 7
  • Common Wood-Nymph common
  • Silver-spotted Skipper common
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper common
  • Tawny-edged Skipper common
  • Mulberry Wing 4
  • Dun Skipper 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Youghiogheny River Trail
Allegheny County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 14
  • Clouded Sulphur 12
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Question Mark 2
  • Eastern Comma 6
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 4
  • Hackberry Emperor 4
  • Northern Pearly-eye 1
  • Little Wood-Satyr 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Lisa Quartararo

Woodbridge Tswp (backyard)
Middlesex County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Monarch 1

John Lampkin

Williamstown; various locations
Berkshire County, MA

Sheep Hill, Hopkins Memorial Forest, and yards
With Jane Lampkin, Marina Soucie and Pam Weatherby
78 -82
Other species were not counted but it was a four-fritillary day.

  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Aphrodite Fritillary 1
  • Atlantis Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary

Atlantis Fritillary

Aphrodite Fritillary

Meadow Fritillary

Kristina Miller

our backyard in Princeton, NJ
Mercer County, NJ

Only the 2nd giant swallowtail we’ve every seen in our backyard.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

William Roehrig

Near Hague. Near shore of Lake George
Warren County, NY

The photo was taken by a friend visiting the area. She did not know what the butterfly was but said it was BIG and wondered if I could ID it for her.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Giant Swallowtail

Henry Kindervatter

Horseshoe Bend Park
Hunterdon County, NJ

I had some time free at the end of my vacation week and decided to go up to Horseshoe bend to check out various areas. Several meadows had been freshly mowed and that decreased the area to be covered. There was a 10-15 mph breeze most of the time and it was in the low 80’s, but there were a fair number of butterflies out and about. I spent 2½ hours in various fields shooting pictures and counting butterflies.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Clouded Sulphur 7
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Juniper Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 12
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 39
  • Peck's Skipper 17

Peck's Skipper, Spicebush Swallowtail

Great Spangled Fritillary

Peck's Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Corner of Keymar & Good Intent Roads
Frederick County, MD

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Checkered White 3
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 12

Black Swallowtail

Maura McLaughlin

Poor House Farm Park
Berkeley County, WV

  • Clouded Sulphur C
  • Gray Hairstreak C
  • Question Mark 2
  • Red Admiral 2

Rich Kelly

Caumsett State Park
Suffolk County, NY

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 200
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 20
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 15
  • Horace's Duskywing 6
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Peck's Skipper 10
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 45
  • Zabulon Skipper 8

John Lampkin

Rockland County Country Club Golf Course
Rockland County, NY

Periodic survey with Matt Ceplo, Groundskeeper
Sunny 78-82

  • Black Swallowtail 9
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 17
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 12
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 44
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 15
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 16

Sue Sutherland

Mumford Cove in Groton
New London County, CT

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Meredith Mays

Backyard garden
Fulton County, GA

First Monarch sighting of 2014! Also a dark morph and 2 yellow E. TST.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Carole Mebus

Traugers Farm Market, Kintnersville
Bucks County, PA

The rows of flowers, particularly the zinnias, in the farm fields are productive butterfly places. I was stunned to see a giant swallowtail among them.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Giant Swallowtail

Michael Coelln

Tomball, TX...Our backyard butterfly garden
Harris County, TX

  • Gulf Fritillary 1

Gulf Fritillary

John Heyse

martinez marsh; carquinez shoreline, martinez
Contra Costa County, CA

70F

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Mylitta Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Sandhill Skipper 4
  • Sachem 2
  • Woodland Skipper 5

Woodland Skipper

Erica Wéry

Cedar Rapids SE side, near Erskine Elementary School
Linn County, IA

Medium Dark Eastern Tiger Swallowtail found on a large Canadian Thistle bush.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Barbara DeWitt

Tree Tops Park/Pine Island Ridge Natural Area, Davie
Broward County, FL

  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 6
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Julia Heliconian 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 10
  • White Peacock 25
  • Malachite 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 4

Lisa Quartararo

Woodbridge Tswp (backyard)
Middlesex County, NJ

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Barbara DeWitt

Tree Tops Park/Pine Island Ridge Natural Area, Davie
Broward County, FL

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 6
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Julia Heliconian 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 10
  • White Peacock 25
  • Malachite 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 4

Malachite

Ellen Kellich

Backyard garden
Mercer County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Monarch 5

Monarch

Monarch

Black Swallowtail

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park, Columbia
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 8
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 4

Fiery Skipper

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Red-spotted Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Jim Egbert

county roads 12,26,and bay rd;south side of weeks bay
Baldwin County, AL

Today I came across two of the highly migratory butterflies that pass through this area. Both are also are native to this region; but
have not been seen since late winter; plus I sighted the 1st Monarch of the season yesterday.

  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1

sheri

Sarnia
Lambton County, ON

My first Hummingbird Clearwing sighting. They love my butterfly bush!

  • Black Swallowtail abundan
  • Giant Swallowtail common
  • Red Admiral 1

Hummingbird Clearwing

Red Admiral

Carlo-Angelo Moore

Jersey City Home Garden
Hudson County, NJ

Sighted between 2-2:30 PM.

  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2

Eastern Comma

Silver-spotted Skipper

Allen Belden

Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest
Buckingham County, VA

Buckingham County portion only: Route 640 and Walker, Slate River, and Glover Forest Roads. Mix of clouds and sun, threat of rain at times, high in the lower 80s.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Harvester 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 6
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 24
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 52
  • American Snout 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 4
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 17
  • Hackberry Emperor 2
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Carolina Satyr 7
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Hoary Edge 5
  • Southern Cloudywing 11
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Swarthy Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Little Glassywing 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 1

Hoary Edge

Horace's Duskywing

Appalachian Brown

Swarthy Skipper

Harvester

Southern Cloudywing

Michael Drake

Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Burlington County, NJ

Most of the butterflies were seen in the butterfly garden.
There were 8 Zabulon females.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 21
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 9
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 8
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 29
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 26
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 73
  • Broad-winged Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 5

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey with Alan Wells
60-68 Sun and clouds

  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
  • Northern Pearly-eye 1
  • Appalachian Brown 4
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Michael Diederich

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

First Giant Swallowtail seen at this location for 2014.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 7
  • Peck's Skipper 9
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1

Inga Kemp

Hardwick NJ
Warren County, NJ

First Gray Hairstreak sighting in the backyard butterfly garden!

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Carole Mebus

Mariton Wildlife Preserve
Northampton County, PA

I consider any hairstreak a good find.

  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1

Red-banded Hairstreak

Jim Wilkinson

Elkhorn Garden Plots
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 12
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Sachem 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Little Glassywing

Common Checkered-Skipper

Peck's Skipper

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in backyard butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • American Snout
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Carlo-Angelo Moore

Jersey City Home Garden
Hudson County, NJ

  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2

Silver-spotted Skipper

Brant Reif

Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt
Polk County, IA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Little Yellow common
  • Bronze Copper 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Painted Lady
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Viceroy common
  • Monarch abundant

Carlo-Angelo Moore

Jersey City Home Garden
Hudson County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 2

Black Swallowtail

Frederick Ertl

Tatum Park, Middletown Township, NJ
Monmouth County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Harvester 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • Common Wood-Nymph 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 9
  • Zabulon Skipper 12

Harvester

Harvester

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in backyard butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • American Snout
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • American Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Glenn Koppel

Oil Creek State Park
Venango County, PA

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 6
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Common Ringlet 4
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Maura McLaughlin

backyard garden a mile from Hedgesville
Berkeley County, WV

The Variegated Fritillary loved my marigolds!

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Meadow Fritillary

Variegated Fritillary

Silver-spotted Skipper

Gertrude Battaly

Back yard: 112 Chelsea Road, Greenburgh
Westchester County, NY

Giant Swallowtail seen in back yard on August 12, 2014. This is the first that I have seen in Westchester.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Giant Swallowtail

Chris Cook

Villanova University
Montgomery County, PA

What an unbelievable sighting! First Giant Swallowtail I’ve ever seen. Flying disoriented and landed 10 feet in front of me around 4:30pm. Exciting find!

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Giant Swallowtail

Michael Drake

Morris Arboretum
Philadelphia County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 55
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Monarch 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 54
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Peck's Skipper 6
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 25
  • Dun Skipper 2

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in backyard butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • American Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Allan R. Loudell

Along Dutch Neck Road & path extending along C & D Canal, near red barn, south of Delaware City
New Castle County, DE

One-and-a-quarter hour walk, 11 a.m.—12:15 p.m.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 30+
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 30+
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 8
  • Dun Skipper 2

Allan R. Loudell

Back yard garden, Bear
New Castle County, DE

My first Painted Ladies of the year!

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5, inc. 1 black form female
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Peck's Skipper 8
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Kenneth Bosso

Baton Rouge backyard butterfly garden - WayStation 7700
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

Raised from an egg found in the butterfly garden and released 8/16/14.

  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Michael Diederich

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

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 1

David L. Amadio

Eastern Neck NWR
Kent County, MD

Superb weather for chasing butterflies today! Only a few of the Zebra Swallowtails were fresh. Primary nectar sources in the butterfly garden were NY Ironweed & Joe pye weed.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 33
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 21
  • Cabbage White 27
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 12
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 8
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 5
  • American Snout 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 6
  • Pearl Crescent 14
  • Question Mark 4
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 7
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Red-spotted Purple 18
  • Viceroy 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 3
  • Appalachian Brown 5
  • Monarch 14
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 40
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 6
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Little Glassywing 8
  • Sachem 1
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 15
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 6

Swarthy Skipper

Zebra Swallowtail

Fiery Skipper

David L. Amadio

Chesapeake Farms Agricultural and Wildlife Management Demonstration Area, Chestertown
Kent County, MD

Observations made late in the afternoon from vehicle. No hiking permitted at this location.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 10
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 6
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 16
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 35
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Jim Egbert

Oyster Bay Rd,Gulf Shores Al
Baldwin County, AL

It was a skipper morning,in the drainage ditchs of Gulf Shores Al..

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 3

Ahmet Baytas

Downtown Montclair
Essex County, NJ

My second ever observation of this species where I live, both this year.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Jim Wilkinson

Hoyles Mill Conservation Park
Montgomery County, MD

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 3
  • Northern Pearly-eye 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 5
  • Dun Skipper 1

Northern Pearly-eye

Hackberry Emperor

Steven Glynn

Mills Road/Rt. 215 Field- West of Damariscotta
Lincoln County, ME

Overcast, 60’s and rain threatening all day

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Silver-bordered Fritillary 6
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Viceroy 2
  • Common Ringlet 9
  • Common Wood-Nymph 17
  • Least Skipper 1

Common Wood-Nymph

Silver-bordered Fritillary

Silver-bordered Fritillary

Common Wood-Nymph

Viceroy

Viceroy

Great Spangled Fritillary

Jennifer Cole

Chester, NJ
Morris County, NJ

  • Monarch 1

Jeanette Klodzen

Maybird Lake Trail - Little Cottonwood Canyon
Salt Lake County, UT

All were seen above 9400ft

Unknown Sulphers and Frits

  • Mustard White
  • Ruddy Copper 1
  • Blue Copper
  • Northern Blue
  • Melissa Blue

Rich Kelly, Al Lindberg, Mary Normandia, Seth Ausubel

Muttontown Preserve
Nassau County, NY

Extensive mowing of trails and fields has negatively impacted butterfly numbers.
Also; 1 Black Swallowtail larva on Queen-Anne’s-Lace and 1 Silver-spotted Skipper larva on Black Locust.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 12
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 45
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 5

Michael Spingola

Kintnersville, PA Backyard butterfly garden
Bucks County, PA

Giant Swallowtail very fresh/intact. Two tigers were dark phase.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Monarch 1

Jim Egbert

N.Juniper,between Co.Rd 24 and Beach Express
Baldwin County, AL

The street is dirt,on this section of the Juniper.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 10+
  • Sleepy Orange 24+
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Southern Cloudywing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 5
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Bryan Hoffman

My Way Station
Wayne County, MI

Monarch chrysalis

Lisa Michelle Reid

Timberwood Park Subdivision
Bexar County, TX

Yet another Desert Checkered-Skipper in our yard, nectaring on Frogfruit.

  • Desert Checkered-Skipper 1

Desert Checkered-Skipper

Desert Checkered-Skipper

Desert Checkered-Skipper

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in backyard butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Swarthy Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

John Lampkin

Rockland County Country Club Golf Course
Rockland County, NY

Periodic Survey with Groundskeeper Matt Ceplo and Jane Lampkin
68-75

  • Black Swallowtail 7
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 19
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Monarch 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 38
  • Horace's Duskywing 5
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 13
  • Zabulon Skipper 9
  • Broad-winged Skipper 23
  • Dun Skipper 2

Michael Diederich

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

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Peck's Skipper 9
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1

Daniel Getman

108 Marco Drive, Kirksville, MO - Backyard
Adair County, MO

4 Giant Swallowtail Caterpillars: Last year we planted multiple host plants, including 3 small prickly ash trees and a hoptree, host plants for the Giant Swallowtail. I’ve occasionally seen a Giant Swallowtail fly through our yard. Today I found 4 Giant Swallowtail caterpillars on 1 of the prickly ash trees. A good day!

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park, Columbia
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 7
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Little Glassywing 3
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 3
  • Dun Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Common Wood-Nymph

Red-banded Hairstreak

Southern Broken-Dash

Ocola Skipper

Russ Wilkerson

North Chili
Monroe County, NY

A Red Admiral finally stopped by, but took off before I could get the camera. I did manage to get a good pic of a Clouded Sulphur that came by later.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Red-spotted Admiral 1

Clouded Sulphur

Carlo-Angelo Moore

Jersey City Home Garden
Hudson County, NJ

  • Common Sootywing 1

Ryan Chrouser

Otter Creek - south of EC Gander Mountain
Eau Claire County, WI

  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 3
  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Great Spangled Fritillary

Mike A Rickard

National Butterfly Center
Hidalgo County, TX

Strong southeasterly winds for several days.

  • Banded Orange Heliconian 1

Banded Orange Heliconian

Andrew Block

192 Macy Rd., Briarcliff Manor
Westchester County, NY

reported by my friend Ernie DeMarie at his home on his Lantana shrub. His yard is filled with butterflies, bees, and other insects.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Brian Lloyd

Tallahassee - Back yard
Leon County, FL

Nectaring

  • Zebra Heliconian 5
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Monarch

Silver-spotted Skipper

Jim Egbert

Gulf State Park,Gulf Shores Al, and Russian Rd,Orange Beach,Al
Baldwin County, AL

This has been a very active day; with a lot of variety. The 1st sighting of the day was a Funereal Duskywing , Erynnis fureralis, at sunrise.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail common
  • Spicebush Swallowtail common
  • Palamedes Swallowtail common
  • Cloudless Sulphur abundant
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Sleepy Orange superabundant
  • Gray Hairstreak 5
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Carolina Satyr 6
  • Queen 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Southern Cloudywing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing common
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Clouded Skipper 3
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper abundant
  • Whirlabout common
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Eufala Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper superabundant
  • Ocola Skipper 3

Dr. Howard B. Eskin

Backyard in Harleysville, PA
Montgomery County, PA

Photographed on a buddlea in my wife’s garden.

  • Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Jim Wilkinson

Welty Road east of Route 15
Frederick County, MD

edge of woods

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Carlo-Angelo Moore

Jersey City Home Garden
Hudson County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Cabbage White

Red Admiral

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in backyard butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • White M Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Allyson O'Connor

Basking Ridge, Backyard
Somerset County, NJ

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Giant Swallowtail

Marcy Wagner

Roosevelt National Park Campobello, NB Canada
Charlotte, NB

I photographed this Ocola Skipper yesterday. My friend and mentor Bob Yukich of Toronto, tells me it is a terrific record.

  • Ocola Skipper 1

Ocola Skipper

Frederick Ertl

Vernon -- Appalachian Trail between Canal Rd and Rt. 94
Sussex County, NJ

Giant Swallowtail most common Swallowtail, as it has been at this location for a month now. All are worn (see photo).
Common Ringlets fresh.

  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Giant Swallowtail 18
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 22
  • Meadow Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Viceroy 2
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Common Ringlet 4
  • Common Wood-Nymph 6
  • Monarch 1
  • Least Skipper C
  • Zabulon Skipper C

Giant Swallowtail

Common Ringlet

Eastern Comma

Donna Grasso

E. 30th street by Bay
Ocean County, NJ

Monarch feeding on a butterfly bush

  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Dr. Howard B. Eskin

Backyard In Harleysville, Pennsylvania
Montgomery County, PA

Photographed on buddlea in my wife’s garden this morning.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Painted Lady
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Painted Lady

Monarch

Great Spangled Fritillary

Barb Sendelbach

My butterfly garden
Sussex County, NJ

17 Silver-spotted Skipper caterpillars in various stages counted today on Black Locust and Hog Peanut.
Butterflies mostly nectaring on Buddleia and Monarda.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Monarch 2

Silver-spotted Skipper, 5th instar

Silver-spotted Skipper, 2nd instar

Lila Parker

Backyard off Alta Mesa & Granbury Rd Fort Worth
Tarrant County, TX

She’s laying eggs on my milkweed!

  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Cynthia Kimmey

204 North Rd. Clarksville NY
Albany County, NY

nectaring on an orange zinnia on our back deck.

  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1

Great Spangled Fritillary

Brian Lloyd

Sumatra, FL, side of SR 375
Liberty County, FL

Hot dry sunny day 85-90F

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 8
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Delaware Skipper 1

Common Wood-Nymph

Tawny-edged Skipper

Delaware Skipper

Jim Egbert

Gulf State Park,Gulf Shores Al and S. Juniper at Riviera Blvd,Foley Al.
Baldwin County, AL

  • Spicebush Swallowtail common
  • Palamedes Swallowtail common
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow 5
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Viceroy 1
  • Carolina Satyr 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Southern Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing common
  • White Checkered-Skipper common
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Andrew Block

20 Hancock Ave., Yonkers
Westchester County, NY

The tiger was a female black phase.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

Michael Drake

Raymond Pool, Bombay Hook NWR
Kent County, DE

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 11
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Bronze Copper 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Monarch 11
  • Aaron's Skipper 12

Bronze Copper

Bronze Copper

Christopher Leslie

731 Algonquian Street, Ventura, CA 93001, USA
Ventura County, CA

Was feeding at pink clover flowers on pesticide free front lawn of suburban house near county open spaces. Sunny day.

  • Reakirt's Blue 1

Reakirt's Blue

Reakirt's Blue

Ellen Kellich

Home garden
Mercer County, NJ

Black Swallowtail newly emerged (home raised)

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Monarch 3

Black Swallowtail

Dr. Howard B. Eskin

Our Harleysville, PA backyard Montgomery County, PA
Montgomery County, PA

Butterflies were on the buddlea or asclepsis in my wife’s garden.

  • Black Swallowtail
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Painted Lady
  • Monarch
  • Zabulon Skipper

Painted Lady

Black Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Zabulon Skipper

Monarch

Allen Belden

James River Park
Richmond city, VA

South side of the James River between Boulevard Bridge and Lee Bridge. Broad-winged Skippers are unusual this far upriver.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Question Mark 2
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Carolina Satyr 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 12
  • Hoary Edge 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Little Glassywing 3
  • Sachem 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 6
  • Dun Skipper 2

Broad-winged Skipper

Sachem

Viceroy

Rich Kelly, Genie Gregor, Tony Luscombe

Breezy Point/Ft. Tilden
Queens County, NY

Incidental to regular botanical survey work.

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 25
  • Orange Sulphur 7
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Monarch 6
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Carole Mebus

Graver Arboretum in Bushkill Township
Northampton County, PA

  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Appalachian Brown 1

Gray Hairstreak

Appalachian Brown

Appalachian Brown

Appalachian Brown

Gray Hairstreak

Carlo-Angelo Moore

Jersey City Home Garden
Hudson County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Painted Lady 1

Painted Lady

Jim Egbert

Rosemary Dunes Trail,Gulf State Park,Orange Beach Al
Baldwin County, AL

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Michelle Brianna Ropp

North Naples Home
Collier County, FL

  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Zebra Heliconian abundant

Zebra Heliconian

Gulf Fritillary

Jennifer Cole

Chester
Morris County, NJ

  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1

Great Spangled Fritillary

Curtis A. Lehman

Murrysville
Westmoreland County, PA

  • Giant Swallowtail

Maggie Strucker

Tupper Lake, Coreys Road
Franklin County, NY

Rare sighting in the Adirondacks for this species. Saw in my garden for 3 days straight!

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Giant Swallowtail

Daniel Getman

Backyard, Kirksville, MO
Adair County, MO

Just saw 2 mating Monarchs

  • Monarch 2

Monarch

Dr. Howard B. Eskin

Our Harleysville, PA backyard.
Montgomery County, PA

Lots of butterflies and a Hummingbird Clearwing this morning on the Buddleia

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Red Admiral
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Silver-spotted Skipper

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Cabbage White

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Red Admiral

Monarch

Jim Egbert

Juniper St,Foley Al and Russian Rd,Orange Beach Al.
Baldwin County, AL

  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Viceroy 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper common
  • Long-tailed Skipper 3
  • Southern Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing common
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Twin-spot Skipper common

John Heyse

my backyard in Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Anise Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mournful Duskywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Carlo-Angelo Moore

Jersey City Home Garden
Hudson County, NJ

This is the first year I grew milkweed and this is the very first monarch I’ve ever seen in our neighborhood. It stayed for over an hour, so I’m hoping for some eggs!

  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Monarch

Jeanette Klodzen

White Rock Trail - Antelope Island
Davis County, UT

  • Monarch 1

Michael Diederich

Pound Ridge Reservation, Pound Ridge
Westchester County, NY

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 11
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 20
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Viceroy 2
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 19
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Jeanette Klodzen

Sentry Trail
Davis County, UT

Walked only to a fresh water pool — about 1/4 mile

  • Cabbage White
  • Melissa Blue
  • Field Crescent
  • Mylitta Crescent

Jim Egbert

co rds 97 and 91 Lillian Al
Baldwin County, AL

From sunrise,until 8am I only had one sigthing;but at 8am everything came out of the wood work.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail common
  • Palamedes Swallowtail common
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Painted Lady 5
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Horace's Duskywing common
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Clouded Skipper 5
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Meredith Mays

Backyard garden
Fulton County, GA

  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1

Hackberry Emperor

Horace's Duskywing

Dr. Howard B. Eskin

Our Harleysville, PA backyard.
Montgomery County, PA

Lots of butterflies this afternoon on the Buddleia

  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Viceroy
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Monarch

Red-spotted Purple

Silver-spotted Skipper

Viceroy

Tom Palmer

Cypress Parkway
Polk County, FL

Corridor through Marion and Reedy Creek preserves. Some of it recently mowed, which affected results.

  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 12
  • Barred Yellow 13
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Dainty Sulphur 7
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Phaon Crescent 10
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 14
  • Viceroy 5
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Dorantes Longtail 2
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 4
  • Zarucco Duskywing 4
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Sachem 1
  • Brazilian Skipper 5
  • Ocola Skipper 1

White Peacock

Brazilian Skipper

Sleepy Orange

John Heyse

Perkins Canyon, Mt. Diablo
Contra Costa County, CA

77-81F

  • Checkered White 2
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Acmon Blue 4
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • California Sister 1
  • Common Ringlet 5
  • Woodland Skipper 2
  • Umber Skipper 2

Checkered White

James L. Monroe

Industry, just off Ohio River
Beaver County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 14
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Question Mark 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Least Skipper 8
  • Peck's Skipper 3

Question Mark

Question Mark

Michael Diederich

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

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 6

Maia Briggs

Wichita, private butterfly garden
Sedgwick County, KS

Female monarch laying eggs

  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Mark Salvato

Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park
Miami-Dade County, FL

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Large Orange Sulphur 9
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Little Metalmark 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Florida Leafwing 2
  • Baracoa Skipper 2

Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak

Florida Leafwing

Little Metalmark

Kyle Gawryluk

Omaha
Douglas County, NE

  • Monarch 2

Monarch

Monarch

Daniel Jones

National Butterfly Center, Mission
Hidalgo County, TX

Hot and very dry.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Julia Heliconian 2
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • Phaon Crescent 7
  • Tawny Emperor 3
  • Queen 10
  • Soldier 2
  • Brown Longtail 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Desert Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Laviana White-Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 8
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1

Zebra Heliconian

Julia Heliconian

Julia Heliconian

Clouded Skipper

Michael Diederich

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

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Monarch 2

Dr. Howard B. Eskin

Our Harleysville, PA backyard.
Montgomery County, PA

Lots of butterflies today on the Buddleia.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Monarch 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 21
  • Zabulon Skipper 19

Zabulon Skipper

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Spicebush Swallowtail

Red Admiral

Monarch

Silver-spotted Skipper

Clouded Sulphur

John Lampkin

Mt. Ivy Park
Rockland County, NY

With Jane Lampkin
76 and cloudy
Picture shows the exterior of the wings, and the blue interior of the left hind wing

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3
  • Broad-winged Skipper 5
  • Dun Skipper 1

Red-banded Hairstreak

Michael Drake

Morris Arboretum
Philadelphia County, PA

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 28
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 8
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 37
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Sachem 28
  • Zabulon Skipper 17
  • Dun Skipper 3

Glenn Koppel

Jennings Environmental Education Center
Butler County, PA

1 Monarch Caterpillar

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Bronze Copper 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 12
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Viceroy 4
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Michael Spingola

Garden, Homestead General Store, Upper Black Eddy
Bucks County, PA

Tattered wings.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

James Shelton

Pocahontas State Park
Chesterfield County, VA

37.393774,-77.554065
Overcast
2:45 P.M.
40 minutes
1 mile

  • Red-banded Hairstreak common
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue common
  • Carolina Satyr common

Brown Hooded Owlet caterpillar

Red-banded Hairstreak

Carolina Satyr

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Allan R. Loudell

White Clay Creek Preserve
Chester County, PA

1-and-a-half hour walk — 2–3:30 p.m.

Pugnacious Zabs flying after Eastern Commas.
Eastern Commas, both black and orange forms.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 12, incl. 5 Black form females
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 15
  • Cabbage White 11
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Eastern Comma 16
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 30+
  • Dun Skipper 1

Michael Diederich

Campfire Road Power Cut, Campfire Road, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 18
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park, Columbia
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 12
  • Little Glassywing 2
  • Sachem 8
  • Dun Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Sachem

Appalachian Brown

Sachem

Ocola Skipper

Meredith Mays

South Fulton County - backyard NABA certified butterfly garden
Fulton County, GA

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1

Cloudless Sulphur

'Summer' Spring Azure

John Heyse

Fernandez Ranch, Muir Land Trust
Contra Costa County, CA

77-80F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Acmon Blue 1
  • Mylitta Crescent 5
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • California Sister 4
  • Common Ringlet 4
  • Monarch 1
  • Woodland Skipper 8

Woodland Skipper

Monarch

David L. Amadio

Wheelabrator Refuge, Westville
Gloucester County, NJ

Giant Swallowtails reported in three of the last four years at this location.
Zabulon Skippers found were 18 males & only 1 female. Almost 3 hrs of observation here this afternoon.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 10
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Eastern Comma 3
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 3
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 14
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Sachem 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 19
  • Broad-winged Skipper 17
  • Dun Skipper 6

Giant Swallowtail

Dennis Holmes

11 miles NE of Weed along Hwy 97.
Siskiyou County, CA

  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Acmon Blue 2
  • Mormon Metalmark 11
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Common Branded Skipper 2
  • Sandhill Skipper 1
  • Woodland Skipper 4

Mormon Metalmark

Mormon Metalmark

Chris Cook

Natrual Lands Trust's Strouds Preserve
Chester County, PA

The Appalachian Brown was spotted multiple times 30 ft. off the main trail in the woods.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Appalachian Brown 10
  • Monarch 5

Appalachian Brown

Lisa Quartararo

Woodbridge Tswp (backyard)
Middlesex County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

John Lampkin

Rockland Country Club Golf Course
Rockland County, NY

Periodic survey, with Groundskeeper Matt Ceplo, Jane Lampkin, Alan Wells
74-78 Sunny

  • Black Swallowtail 7
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 11
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 13
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 6
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 23
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 7
  • Zabulon Skipper 6
  • Broad-winged Skipper 11
  • Dun Skipper 1

Jim Wilkinson

Welty Road east of Route 15
Frederick County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Jim Egbert

N Juniper St.Foley Al,and E 24th Gulf Shores,Al.
Baldwin County, AL

I found a White Peacock for the 1st time this year. Last summer was the 1st time that I had found them in southwest Alabama; before I had only seen them in central Florida. It has been a good day to see that at least 1 survived our winter.

  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail common
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Common Buckeye common
  • White Peacock 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Fiery Skipper common

Dr. Howard B. Eskin

Our Harleysville, PA backyard.
Montgomery County, PA

Another sunny day brought in lots of butterflies to the Buddleia and Asclepsis flowers.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 11
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Monarch 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 14
  • Zabulon Skipper 26

Silver-spotted Skipper

Spicebush Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Cabbage White

Monarch

Zabulon Skipper

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

john heyse

Perkins Canyon, Mt. Diablo
Contra Costa County, CA

71-75 F

  • Two-tailed Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 3
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Acmon Blue 6
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Umber Skipper 1

Cabbage White

Checkered White

Frederick Ertl

Kittatinny State Park, Andover
Sussex County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 16
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 9
  • Orange Sulphur 25
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 50
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Viceroy 8
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 12
  • Peck's Skipper 9
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 6
  • Little Glassywing 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 12

Common Wood-Nymph

Common Checkered-Skipper

Giant Swallowtail

Viceroy

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Watched a monarch emerge from its chrysalis today! It came to my shoulder, flew onto my cheek before flying away.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Monarch

Monarch chysalis

Monarch

Monarch

Kim Porter

My garden in Sparks, MD
Baltimore County, MD

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Dave Hanson

My house, Fall Creek
Eau Claire County, WI

  • White Admiral 1

White Admiral

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey, with Alan Wells and Jane Lampkin
73-78 Sunny
Appalachian Browns often win the “most-abundant award” here because of extensive stands of Tussock Sedge in beaver ponds.

  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • American Copper 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 18
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Appalachian Brown 23
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 9
  • Peck's Skipper 6
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1

Bryan Hoffman

Way Station #8774
Wayne County, MI

Multiple Monarchs and Swallowtails

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White A
  • Monarch 3

Monarch

Black Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park, Columbia
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 12
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing common
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Sachem 15
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 1

Viceroy

Painted Lady

Fiery Skipper

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Admiral
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Andrew Block

192 Macy Rd., Briarcliff Manor,
Westchester County, NY

The Giant Swallowtail was fresh, compared to the one seen the other day at the same spot which wasn’t.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper common

Jim Egbert

Russian Rd,Orange Beach Al,and Oyster Bay Rd,Gulf Shores Al
Baldwin County, AL

Today’s Black Swallowtails were from two chrysalises that I had collected from the field a couple of weeks ago; and one male and female were returned back to the field.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail common
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur abundant
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Gray Hairstreak common
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing common
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Clouded Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Dusted Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 3
  • Twin-spot Skipper common
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 3

John Heyse

Carquinez Shoreline, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Acmon Blue 1
  • Common Buckeye 7
  • Common Ringlet 4
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Woodland Skipper 2

John Heyse

my backyard in Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Common Buckeye 1

Christopher Torpey

Toms River in the Mule Road area -at Holiday City Adult Community.
Ocean County, NJ

  • Monarch 1

Lisa Quartararo

Woodbridge Tswp (backyard)
Middlesex County, NJ

  • Monarch 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • American Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Elkhorn Garden Plots
Howard County, MD

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 15
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 20
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 6
  • Sachem 18
  • Zabulon Skipper 8

Monarch

American Lady

Dr. Howard B. Eskin

Our Harleysville, PA backyard.
Montgomery County, PA

Lots of butterflies coming through in very sunny weather.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 15
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 14
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 26
  • Zabulon Skipper 14

White M Hairstreak

Zabulon Skipper

Monarch

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

red admiral

Silver-spotted Skipper

Cabbage White

Dan Getman

Backyard, Kirksville, MO
Adair County, MO

Saw 2 monarchs. One was tagged, presumably one we had recently released. The other was a female laying eggs on tropical milkweed (see photo).

  • Monarch 2

Monarch

Allen Belden

Croatan National Forest
Craven County, NC

Forest Route 121-2 and adjacent power line.

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 38
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 13
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Carolina Satyr 29
  • Georgia Satyr 9
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 26

Georgia Satyr

Allen Belden

Croatan National Forest
Carteret County, NC

Millis Road Savanna area.

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 6
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Little Metalmark 8
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Georgia Satyr 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1

Little Metalmark

Little Metalmark

Laurel Rhodes

Scherer-Thaxton Reserve east of Oscar Scherer State Park
Sarasota County, FL

With Karen Finch (photos). Scherer-Thaxton Reserve is one of the county’s newest parks. Nectar plants included Loosestrife, Frogfruit, Bidens, Thistle, Mistflower, Redroot, Musky Mint, Partridge Pea.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 30
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 15
  • Little Metalmark 7
  • Phaon Crescent 6
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • White Peacock 50
  • Viceroy 7
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Southern Skipperling 5
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Delaware Skipper 3
  • Eufala Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1

Little Metalmark

Eufala Skipper

Michael Drake

High School Park, Cheltenham
Montgomery County, PA

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Sachem 17
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Jim Egbert

County Road 12,and Bay Rd East,Magnolia Springs,Al
Baldwin County, AL

The sighting of an Indiigo Snake, was a nice change to all of the Cotton Mouth Moccasins I have been coming across in the past week.The Monarch sighted, today was heading south at warp speed,as if it was being chased.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail common
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Checkered White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy common
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper common
  • Long-tailed Skipper 4
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Clouded Skipper common
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 3

Steven Glynn

Thunder Road end, plus nearby Derby Road and Ledbetter Road areas
Richmond County, NC

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
  • Variegated Fritillary 6
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye abundant
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Viceroy 1
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Steven Rosenthal

CitiField
Queens County, NY

NY Mets vs Atlanta Braves. Monarch seen soaring over the infield at 7:35 pm. Along with one unidentified moth, Lepidoptera exceeded Mets’ run total for the evening.

  • Monarch 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • American Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Steven Glynn

Thunder Road area very close to Richmond County line, near Pinebluff
Moore County, NC

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Southern Pearly-eye 1
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 2
  • Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 1

Cloudless Sulphur

Southern Pearly-eye

Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper

Allen Belden

Croatan National Forest
Carteret County, NC

Forest Routes 154, 123, 128, 201, and 617 and Patsy Pond area.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 27
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 7
  • Sleepy Orange 9
  • Gray Hairstreak 6
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 21
  • Pearl Crescent 12
  • Common Buckeye 34
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Georgia Satyr 5
  • Southern Cloudywing 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 7
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Byssus Skipper 8
  • Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 2

Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper

Byssus Skipper

Byssus Skipper

Lisa Michelle Reid

Guadalupe River State Park
Comal County, TX

My kids and I participated in a butterfly survey at the park. While there, we found at least 4 Desert Checkered-Skippers. Photos are 1 of each individual, not duplicates of the same.

  • Desert Checkered-Skipper 4

Desert Checkered-Skipper

Desert Checkered-Skipper

Desert Checkered-Skipper

Desert Checkered-Skipper

Michael Drake

Mt Cuba Center
New Castle County, DE

6 Monarch caterpillars on Swamp Milkweed

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 18
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 13
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • American Lady 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 14
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 9
  • Dun Skipper 3

Glenn Koppel

State Gamelands 95
Butler County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 9
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Least Skipper 3

Jim Egbert

S Juniper,Foley Al ;and Oyster Bay Rd,Gulf Shores Al.
Baldwin County, AL

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail common
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Phaon Crescent 6
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Long-tailed Skipper 5
  • Horace's Duskywing 5
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Clouded Skipper common
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Painted Lady
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Common Wood-Nymph
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Carlo-Angelo Moore

Jersey City Home Garden
Hudson County, NJ

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3

Andrew Block

Hudson River Walking Trail, Bayonne,
Hudson County, NJ

Was seen flying over cove to golf course and out of site.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Carole Mebus

Giving Pond, Delaware Canal State Park
Bucks County, PA

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 1

Giant Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Monarch

Viceroy

Red-spotted Purple

Red-spotted Purple

Monarch

Todd Eiben

Bedford Reservation - Button Rd Field
Cuyahoga County, OH

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Pearl Crescent common
  • Common Buckeye
  • Common Wood-Nymph
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Least Skipper abundant
  • Peck's Skipper common
  • Zabulon Skipper

Common Buckeye

Steven Glynn

Francis Marion NF
Charleston County, SC

Scouting run for upcoming NABA count

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail common
  • Palamedes Swallowtail abundant
  • Cloudless Sulphur abundant
  • Little Yellow 25
  • Sleepy Orange 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 20
  • Red-banded Hairstreak abundant
  • Little Metalmark 4
  • Gulf Fritillary abundant
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Carolina Satyr abundant
  • Georgia Satyr 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 8
  • Zarucco Duskywing 4
  • White Checkered-Skipper 7
  • Swarthy Skipper 4
  • Clouded Skipper 10
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 4
  • Southern Broken-Dash 10
  • Northern Broken-Dash 2
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Byssus Skipper 6
  • Yehl Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 3
  • Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 6
  • Twin-spot Skipper abundant
  • Ocola Skipper 4

Ocola Skipper

Long-tailed Skipper

Pipevine Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Yehl Skipper

Byssus Skipper

Georgia Satyr

Little Metalmark

Yehl Skipper

Denise Bittle, Jean Gutsmuth, & Chris Herz

Eastern Neck NWR, Rock Hall
Kent County, MD

fields by butterfly garden mowed and saplings removed.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 15
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 17
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 5
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 7
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 6
  • Variegated Fritillary 6
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Question Mark 1
  • Painted Lady 5
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Red-spotted Purple 12
  • Viceroy 1
  • Tawny Emperor 3
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 10
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 8
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Sachem 12
  • Zabulon Skipper 4
  • Dun Skipper 2

Denise Bittle, Jean Gutsmuth, & Chris Herz

Chesapeake Farms, Chestertown
Kent County, MD

observations from car as no hiking permitted

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 7
  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Painted Lady 7
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 3
  • Monarch 19
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 21
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Jeanette Klodzen

Millcreek to Park City Overlook Trail - Millcreek Canyon
Salt Lake County, UT

At the overlook continued about a mile or so on the Great Western Trail (above Park City)

Unknown Frit

  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Hoary Comma
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Juba Skipper

Dr. Howard B. Eskin

Our Harleysville, PA backyard.
Montgomery County, PA

Lots of sunshine brought in many butterflies, clearwing moths and bees into our backyard garden today.

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 8
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 14
  • Zabulon Skipper 19

Cabbage White

Red-spotted Purple

Black Swallowtail

Zabulon Skipper

Silver-spotted Skipper

Monarch

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Michael Diederich

Pound Ridge Reservation, Pound Ridge
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 21
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Common Ringlet 3
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 14
  • Least Skipper 6
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1

John Heyse

at home Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Sandhill Skipper 1
  • Woodland Skipper 1

Jim Egbert

Russian Rd,Orange Beach Al and S.Juniper Foley Al
Baldwin County, AL

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Palamedes Swallowtail common
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Gray Hairstreak 4
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Phaon Crescent common
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Viceroy 1
  • Carolina Satyr 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Long-tailed Skipper 3
  • Horace's Duskywing common
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Clouded Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Northern Broken-Dash 3
  • Twin-spot Skipper common
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Daniel Getman

Backyard, Kirksville, MO
Adair County, MO

Male Monarch on Zinnias

  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Tom Palmer

Hatchineha Road
Polk County, FL

Exploring results from 2 miles of unmowed roadside along a rural section of highway near natural areas and farm land.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 4
  • Black Swallowtail 7
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 10
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 6
  • Barred Yellow 14
  • Sleepy Orange 5
  • Dainty Sulphur 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 4
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 14
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 32
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Long-tailed Skipper 7
  • Dorantes Longtail 3
  • Northern Cloudywing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 14
  • Zarucco Duskywing 10
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 9
  • Southern Skipperling 15
  • Fiery Skipper 109
  • Whirlabout 46
  • Southern Broken-Dash 5
  • Sachem 3
  • Delaware Skipper 13
  • Palmetto Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 47

Gulf Fritillary

Southern Skipperling

Delaware Skipper

Dr. Howard B. Eskin

Our Harleysville, PA backyard.
Montgomery County, PA

We had one hour of sunshine all day but it still was enough to bring in butterflies, Clearwings, and other day-flying moths.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 5
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 15
  • Zabulon Skipper 14

Silver-spotted Skipper

Red-spotted Purple

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

'Summer' Spring Azure

Zabulon Skipper

Monarch

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Observed in butterfly garden.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • White M Hairstreak
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • American Lady
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Common Wood-Nymph
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Chris Herz

Rittenhouse Square Park
Philadelphia County, PA

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

James L. Monroe

Off Ohio River in Industry PA
Beaver County, PA

2;30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

  • Cabbage White 7
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 14
  • Least Skipper 1

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Jim Egbert

S Juniper St.,Foley Al and E Bay Rd.,Magnolia Springs Al.
Baldwin County, AL

The Dun Skipper was wearing a golden crown..

  • Spicebush Swallowtail common
  • Palamedes Swallowtail common
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Dainty Sulphur 6
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Viceroy 4
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper common
  • Long-tailed Skipper 3
  • Horace's Duskywing common
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Clouded Skipper common
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Crossline Skipper 6
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Dun Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Allan R. Loudell

Along Dutch Neck Road & path extending along C & D Canal, near red barn, and south of Delaware City
New Castle County, DE

One-hour walk, 9:30–10:30 a.m.; mostly sunny.

Nice emergence of the second brood of Bronze Coppers; the majority, males…

This time, no Monarchs nor Viceroys…

Also, no Common Buckeyes (common here in other late summers) nor Vanessa species…

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 7
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Bronze Copper 10
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 10
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Least Skipper 7
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 4

Daniel Jones

National Butterfly Center, Mission
Hidalgo County, TX

9:15 AM - 1:35 PM

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 10
  • Giant Swallowtail 4
  • Southern Dogface 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 3
  • Lyside Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 4
  • Mimosa Yellow 1
  • Silver-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • American Snout 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • Empress Leilia 1
  • Tawny Emperor 4
  • Queen 30
  • Soldier 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 7
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Laviana White-Skipper 5
  • Turk's-cap White-Skipper 1
  • Julia's Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 6
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 12
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 6
  • Eufala Skipper 4

Silver-banded Hairstreak

Mimosa Yellow

Celia's Roadside-Skipper

Turk's-cap White-Skipper

Karlo and Alison Mirth

Livingston Manor (Arnold House property, 839 Shandelee Road)
Sullivan County, NY

Thanks to the owners of The Arnold House for leaving a large amount of their property uncut, allowing us to see some nice butterflies. Among the 10 or so Meadow Fritillaries was at least one Silver-bordered! We also saw a female Bronze Copper on Curled Dock.

  • Clouded Sulphur 2-3
  • Bronze Copper 1
  • Silver-bordered Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 10
  • Common Ringlet common
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Least Skipper 2

Bronze Copper

Silver-bordered Fritillary

Meredith Mays

Backyard garden - South Fulton
Fulton County, GA

  • American Lady 1

American Lady

American Lady

American Lady

Dr. Howard B. Eskin

Our Harleysville, PA backyard.
Montgomery County, PA

Bright sunshine brought in lots of butterflies, bees and Clearwing moths into our yard today.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 11
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Monarch 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 22
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 23

Pearl Crescent

Red-spotted Purple

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Spicebush Swallowtail

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Monarch

Zabulon Skipper

Silver-spotted Skipper

Horace's Duskywing

Cabbage White