August 2017 Sightings

Mark and Holly Salvato

Yuba Pass, Tahoe National Forest
Sierra County, CA

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Pale Swallowtail 6
  • Checkered White 1
  • Mustard White 3
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Edith's Copper 3
  • Hedgerow Hairstreak 1
  • Northern Blue 1
  • Melissa Blue 2
  • Mylitta Crescent 2
  • Hoary Comma 1
  • California Tortoiseshell 3
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Lorquin's Admiral 1

Mourning Cloak

Northern Blue

Mylitta Crescent

Hoary Comma

Brant Reif

Meadows along Silver Creek, Sarvis Wilderness, Routt National Forest
Routt County, CO

These are the sightings from a four-day camping trip on the Routt County side of the Sarvis Wilderness.

  • Mustard White
  • Scudder's Sulphur
  • Blue Copper
  • Purplish Copper
  • Greenish Blue
  • Zerene Fritillary
  • Great Basin Fritillary
  • Atlantis Fritillary
  • Mormon Fritillary
  • Silver-bordered Fritillary
  • Purplish Fritillary
  • Satyr Comma
  • Oreas Comma
  • Painted Lady
  • Common Alpine

Atlantis Fritillary

Scudder's Sulphur

Purplish Copper

Purplish Copper

Purplish Fritillary

Atlantis Fritillary

Scudder's Sulphur

Mormon Fritillary

Purplish Copper

Silver-bordered Fritillary

Mormon Fritillary

Silver-bordered Fritillary

Scudder's Sulphur

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

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

Rich Kelly

New Hyde Park
Nassau County, NY

Yard list.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Painted Lady 15
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Sachem 12

Judy Molnar

Virginia Living Museum
Newport News city, VA

Incidental sighting as I volunteered on the grounds. The large fig trees in the Virginia Garden attracted many birds, squirrels and staff who like to harvest the ripe figs. Butterflies are attracted by the dew on the cupped leaves, basking sites and fig juice. 1st Viceroy I’ve seen all season.

  • Viceroy 1

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Clear blue skies and slightly warmer today…mid 80’s

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 3

Zebra Heliconian

Jeanette Klodzen

Snake Creek Pass (Brighton Ski Resort)
Salt Lake County, UT

Elevation: 8700 - 10,100 ft

Walked up to Pass and then continue up to the lift.

Many butterflies at or above the Pass including the Chryxus Arctic.

I only ID’d Callippe and Mormon Frits but there were lots flying so there may have been more.

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail
  • Two-tailed Swallowtail
  • Ruddy Copper
  • Blue Copper
  • Lilac-bordered Copper
  • Northern Blue
  • Boisduval's Blue
  • Callippe Fritillary
  • Mormon Fritillary
  • Hoary Comma
  • California Tortoiseshell
  • Painted Lady
  • Weidemeyer's Admiral
  • Chryxus Arctic
  • Persius Duskywing

Chryxus Arctic

JoAnna N Clayton

Ft. DeSoto Park
Pinellas County, FL

With Ron Smith most of trip. Amazing count of Painted Ladies. Had to have been driven in by Tropical Storm Emily. Highest density at Bay Pier area, out in the beach scrub by Ranger’s house. 68 counted with R. Smith. 9 more counted by R Smith at park offices at the flag pole. A Florida high count record?

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Statira Sulphur 4
  • Dainty Sulphur 18+
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Pygmy-Blue 4
  • Ceraunus Blue common
  • Gulf Fritillary 25+
  • Phaon Crescent 8
  • Painted Lady 77
  • White Peacock 20+
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 4
  • Horace's Duskywing 4
  • White Checkered-Skipper 15+
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 8
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Monk Skipper 2
  • Obscure Skipper 2

Black Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak

Obscure Skipper

Obscure Skipper

Painted Lady

Painted Lady

Queen

Statira Sulphur

Three-spotted Skipper

David Barrett

Central Park
New York County, NY

3 p.m., 86 F, light winds, 45 minutes observing

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Painted Lady 5
  • Red Admiral 1

Michael Drake

Morris Arboretum
Philadelphia County, PA

90, mostly sunny. Lots of nectar - skipper numbers still low

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail common
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure common
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 6
  • Red Admiral 4
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch common
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Least Skipper common
  • Peck's Skipper common
  • Sachem common
  • Zabulon Skipper

Brett Badeaux

Talbert Regional Park
Orange County, CA

Began fully cloudy but sun came out eventually, up to 75F.

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 10
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 6
  • Marine Blue 3
  • Western Tailed-Blue 5
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Sandhill Skipper common
  • Umber Skipper 2
  • Wandering Skipper 2

Sandhill Skipper

Andrew Block

20 Hancock Ave., Yonkers,
Westchester County, NY

  • Red Admiral 1

Judy Molnar

Home AKA Monarch Waystation #271
Newport News city, VA

Male Monarch still here, “cruising for chicks,” nectaring, rest, repeat.

  • Monarch 1

Mark and Holly Salvato

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Monitor Pass
Mono County, CA

With Frank Model

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Becker's White 1
  • Checkered White 3
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Behr's Hairstreak 1
  • Sooty Hairstreak 1
  • California Hairstreak 1
  • Boisduval's Blue 20
  • Callippe Fritillary 3
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Small Wood-Nymph 30
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Common Branded Skipper 10
  • Woodland Skipper 12

Callippe Fritillary

Common Branded Skipper

Woodland Skipper

Behr's Hairstreak

Small Wood-Nymph

California Hairstreak

Becker's White

Mark and Holly Salvato

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, northeast of Ebbetts Pass
Alpine County, CA

With Jim Brock, Stephen Moore and others.

  • Pine White 20
  • Tailed Copper 1
  • Behr's Hairstreak 2
  • Hedgerow Hairstreak 2
  • Silvery Blue 1
  • Boisduval's Blue 2

Pine White

Pine White

Tailed Copper

Pine White

Silvery Blue

Behr's Hairstreak

Pine White

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest
Sarpy County, NE

A great day butterflying. Went for 1.5 hours starting at 10. Temp was an average of 75 degrees, 61% humidity and sunny, wind less 5 mph

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 11
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 15
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 8
  • Painted Lady 26
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Hackberry Emperor 2
  • Monarch 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 8
  • Common Sootywing 2
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Allen Belden

Spruce Mountain (Monongahela National Forest)
Pendleton County, WV

Various stops along Forest Routes 104 and 112, including Spruce Knob. Part of the area in Randolph County. Pink-edged Sulphur female observed egg laying on Vaccinium angustifolium (lowbush blueberry). Orange Sulphur observed attempting to mate (apparently unsuccessfully) with a Pink-edged Sulphur.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail common
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail common
  • Cabbage White common
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Pink-edged Sulphur 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue common
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 5
  • Great Spangled Fritillary common
  • Aphrodite Fritillary common
  • Atlantis Fritillary common
  • Pearl Crescent 9
  • American Lady 10
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph common
  • Monarch 10
  • Silver-spotted Skipper common
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper abundant

Delaware Skipper

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Atlantis Fritillary

Pink-edged Sulphur

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Gray Hairstreak 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

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

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Warmest day of the week so far….High 89
Much rain is expected over the next few days as a Tropical Storm passes the coast.

  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Byssus Skipper 1

Byssus Skipper

Lori M. Carlson

US Hwy 70A East, Hillsborough, NC
Orange County, NC

Residential garden. Sighted Painted Lady—first one to be seen since 2014!

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Sleepy Orange 5
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • American Lady 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Hoary Edge 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Sachem 4

Painted Lady

Dennis Holmes

Little Walker River Rd & Hwy 395
Mono County, CA

  • Nokomis Fritillary 5
  • Common Ringlet 2

Nokomis Fritillary

Nokomis Fritillary

Mark and Holly Salvato

Saddlebag Lake, Inyo National Forest
Mono County, CA

With Jim Brock, Stephen Moore, Kristie Nelson and others.

  • Phoebus Parnassian 2
  • Sara Orangetip 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Tailed Copper 1
  • Ruddy Copper 1
  • Sheridan's Hairstreak 1
  • Dotted Blue 3
  • Boisduval's Blue 4
  • Shasta Blue 1
  • Heather Blue 2
  • Mormon Fritillary 2
  • Rockslide Checkerspot 1
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell 4
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Chryxus Arctic 1
  • Two-banded Checkered-Skipper 10

Two-banded Checkered-Skipper

Ruddy Copper

Tailed Copper

Rockslide Checkerspot

Heather Blue

Heather Blue

Rockslide Checkerspot

Chryxus Arctic

Sheridan's Hairstreak

Milbert's Tortoiseshell

Heather Blue

Mark and Holly Salvato

Dana Meadows, Yosemite National Park
Tuolumne County, CA

With Jim Brock, Stephen Moore, Kristie Nelson and others.

  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Sierra Sulphur 6
  • Lustrous Copper 4
  • Greenish Blue 2
  • Mexican Cloudywing 2
  • Two-banded Checkered-Skipper 2

Sierra Sulphur

Greenish Blue

Lustrous Copper

Mexican Cloudywing

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Common Wood-Nymph
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Joanne Langabee

Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, NE
Douglas County, NE

It was cloudy most all viewing period and winds averaging 18 mph, and temperature of 70 degrees. Not what you think of as good butterfly weather. We were surprised to see over 200 butterflies

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 84
  • Orange Sulphur 47
  • Cloudless Sulphur 6
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 14
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Painted Lady 6
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 37
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 30
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 4
  • Sachem 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Common Ringlet 1

JoAnna N Clayton

Personal Residence - St. Petersburg
Pinellas County, FL

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 3
  • Statira Sulphur 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Painted Lady 1
  • White Peacock 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 6
  • Monk Skipper 1

Clouded Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Giant Swallowtail

Monk Skipper

Orange-barred Sulphur

Painted Lady

Spicebush Swallowtail

Jeanette Klodzen

Lofty Lake Loop Trail
Summit County, UT

elevation 9900 - 10800ft

  • Scudder's Sulphur
  • Purplish Copper
  • Arctic Blue
  • Mormon Fritillary
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell 10+
  • Painted Lady

Tal Pipkin

Saint Petersburg (Private Residence)
Pinellas County, FL

A new species (Vanessa cardui ) here at the “Pipkin Preserve”…

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 3
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 6
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • White Peacock 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Painted Lady

Michael Drake

Pennypack Ecological Trust, Bryn Athyn
Montgomery County, PA

Sunny and 88. Snout was my FOS

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail common
  • Spicebush Swallowtail common
  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • American Snout 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch common
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Swarthy Skipper 5
  • Least Skipper 9
  • Peck's Skipper 5
  • Sachem 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Renee Davis

Mistaken Point, Cape Race
Division No. 1, NL

  • Northern Blue 8

Northern Blue

Dennis Holmes

Sweetwater Mts
Mono County, CA

  • Pine White 3
  • Edith's Copper 2
  • Ruddy Copper 23
  • Blue Copper 15
  • Sooty Hairstreak 6
  • Boisduval's Blue 10
  • Coronis Fritillary 2
  • Zerene Fritillary 10
  • Great Basin Fritillary 35
  • Mormon Fritillary 10
  • Field Crescent 4
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Small Wood-Nymph 18
  • Monarch 1
  • Sonoran Skipper 8
  • Woodland Skipper 2

Mormon Fritillary

Blue Copper

Sooty Hairstreak

Boisduval's Blue

Mark and Holly Salvato

Little Walker River, Toiyabe National Forest
Mono County, CA

With Jim Brock, Stephen Moore and others.

  • Western White 2
  • Ruddy Copper 1
  • Nokomis Fritillary 2
  • Common Ringlet 10
  • Small Wood-Nymph 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2

Nokomis Fritillary

Nokomis Fritillary

Nokomis Fritillary

Common Ringlet

Mark and Holly Salvato

Jean Blanc Road, Bishop
Inyo County, CA

With Jim Brock and others.

  • Checkered White 5
  • Cabbage White 12
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 25
  • Melissa Blue 15
  • Monarch 1
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Alkali Skipper 6
  • Sachem 1

Common Sootywing

Melissa Blue

Melissa Blue

Western Pygmy-Blue

Alkali Skipper

Michael Diederich

19 Chappaqua Mountain Road, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3

Venice Kelly

james peak wilderness east portal
Gilpin County, CO

East portal is a little over 9,000 feet in elevation. coniferous forest, some boggy areas and meadows. We were there from 9:30 am to 1:45 pm. sun and some breeziness.

  • Pale Swallowtail 1
  • Mustard White 4
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Queen Alexandra's Sulphur 1
  • Edith's Copper 18
  • Ruddy Copper 5
  • Purplish Copper 8
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Greenish Blue 3
  • Arctic Blue 6
  • Atlantis Fritillary 5
  • Mormon Fritillary 2
  • Northern Checkerspot 1
  • Painted Lady 5
  • Weidemeyer's Admiral 1

Edith's Copper

Mustard White

Purplish Copper

Ruddy Copper

Atlantis Fritillary

Arctic Blue

Raven Anthony Squire

Washington Park, Union City
Hudson County, NJ

Orange Sulphur female
First sighting by this observer of American Snout in this park.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 10
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Snout 2
  • Painted Lady 12
  • Red Admiral 4
  • Monarch 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Jill Gorman

Berkeley Lake home garden
Gwinnett County, GA

  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Monarch

Monarch

Jim Wilkinson

Race Road wetland, Elkridge
Howard County, MD

The photo appears to be a Spicebush Swallowtail with green submarginal spots but is rather bluish on the hindwings.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2

Spicebush Swallowtail

Lori M. Carlson

1507 US Hwy 70A East, Hillsborough, nC
Orange County, NC

Second sighting of a GPH in our garden this year.

  • Great Purple Hairstreak 1

Great Purple Hairstreak

Andrew Block

167 Old Army Rd., Scarsdale,
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5+
  • Red Admiral 1

Dennis Holmes

Trail Cyn in the northern White Mts
Esmeralda County, NV

  • Checkered White 6
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Ruddy Copper 15
  • Blue Copper 25
  • Greenish Blue 2
  • Boisduval's Blue 30
  • Shasta Blue 6
  • Lupine Blue 2
  • Lorquin's Admiral 7
  • Sonoran Skipper 4

Boisduval's Blue

Ruddy Copper

Ruddy Copper

Mark and Holly Salvato

White Mountains, Inyo National Forest
Mono County, CA

Observations occurred at Campito Mountain and meadow.

With Jim Brock, Stephen Moore and others.

  • Western White 8
  • Boisduval's Blue 12
  • Lupine Blue 2
  • Painted Lady 10
  • West Coast Lady 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Common Branded Skipper 6
  • Sierra Skipper 2
  • Sandhill Skipper 1

Sierra Skipper

Sierra Skipper

Lupine Blue

Lupine Blue

Boisduval's Blue

Sierra Skipper

Sandhill Skipper

Sierra Skipper

Karen Lex

Milford Ohio
Clermont County, OH

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Rob Santry

Dutchman Peak
Jackson County, OR

Cathy and I butterflied Forest Service Road 20 up to Dutchman Peak in the Siskiyou Mountains. This locale is about 8 miles west of Mt. Ashland. Edith’s Coppers are unusual in the Siskiyou’s.

  • Pine White 4
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Edith's Copper 12
  • Blue Copper abundant
  • Lilac-bordered Copper 2
  • Boisduval's Blue 5
  • Acmon Blue 3
  • Great Basin Fritillary 3
  • Atlantis Fritillary 4
  • Hydaspe Fritillary 12
  • Mylitta Crescent 1
  • Hoary Comma 4
  • California Tortoiseshell 3
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 6
  • Lorquin's Admiral 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Persius Duskywing 2
  • Sandhill Skipper 4
  • Woodland Skipper 1

Edith's Copper

Blue Copper

Edward Perry IV

Tosohatchee WMA
Orange County, FL

9:30 am to 3:15 pm. Sunny, hot, humid. Major nectar sources included pickerel weed, duck potato, rattlesnake master, buttonbush, coastalplain chaffhead, and fogfruit.
EPerry & RWarner

  • Zebra Swallowtail 4
  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 11
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Little Metalmark 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Phaon Crescent 20
  • Pearl Crescent 10
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 38
  • Viceroy 32
  • Queen 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 2
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Confused Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Zarucco Duskywing 4
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Long-tailed Skipper

Palamedes Swallowtail

Horace's Duskywing

Cloudless Sulphur

Viceroy

Cloudless Sulphur

Zebra Swallowtail

Little Metalmark

Red Admiral

Zebra Swallowtail

Little Metalmark

Twin-spot Skipper

White Peacock

Whirlabout

Gulf Fritillary

Southern Broken-Dash

Clouded Skipper

Curtis A. Lehman

Mingo Creek County Park
Washington County, PA

Pipevine Swallowtails were all larvae feeding on Virginia Snakeroot.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 6
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 7
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Harvester 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Spring Azure 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Meadow Fritillary 3
  • Silvery Checkerspot 7
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 4
  • Eastern Comma 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Northern Pearly-eye 2
  • Monarch 8
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 6
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillar

Silvery Checkerspot

Harvester

Jeanette Klodzen

My Yard (Sugarhouse area - Salt Lake City)
Salt Lake County, UT

  • Sandhill Skipper 1

Sandhill Skipper

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Sunny, low humidity and 68 degrees when observing

  • Cabbage White 6
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Tom Palmer

Lake Blue Scrub
Polk County, FL

Most of the species were nectaring on Praxelis clematidea, a recently introduced species from South America that is found in disturbed areas in central Florida. Images would not load.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Barred Yellow 40
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Dainty Sulphur 2
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 28
  • Gulf Fritillary 16
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • White Peacock 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Three-spotted Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Whirlabout 1

Linda Romine

Chaparral Prairie State Nature Preserve
Adams County, OH

Sunny to partly cloudy, 1015-1315, 65-74 degrees. Walked all three trails plus a fire control line. Spiked blazingstar and early goldenrod in full bloom.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 40
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 39
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Silvery Checkerspot 2
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Tawny Emperor 1
  • Gemmed Satyr 2
  • Carolina Satyr 4
  • Little Wood-Satyr 2
  • Common Wood-Nymph 6
  • Monarch 15
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 27
  • Southern Cloudywing 4
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 6
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Sachem 2
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 17

Jeanette Klodzen

roughly 2800 Highland Drive Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County, UT

Found him hanging onto my open window as a drove about 3 miles home. Butterflying made easy :)

  • Gray Hairstreak 1

Gray Hairstreak

Judy Molnar

Home AKA Monarch Waystation #271
Newport News city, VA

Seen while in the garden, front yard. I have a good patch of violets and the yard has reared Variegated Frits for several years without any extra help from me. Good to see.

  • Variegated Fritillary 1

Dennis Holmes

Little Walker River Rd & Hwy 395
Mono County, CA

STANDOFF The bee harrassed her but she held her ground! I guess size does matter.

  • Nokomis Fritillary 1

Nokomis Fritillary

Nokomis Fritillary

Dennis Holmes

Glass Mt - Sawmill Meadow
Mono County, CA

  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Arctic Blue 12
  • Mormon Fritillary 5
  • Field Crescent 5
  • Lorquin's Admiral 4
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Mormon Fritillary

Arctic Blue

Field Crescent

Judy Molnar

Home AKA Monarch Waystation #271
Newport News city, VA

At noon, saw a female monarch nectaring and laying eggs in the front yard. The Cloudless Sulphur nectared on Lady In Red Salvia, Black Swallowtail on Tithonia.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Monarch 1

Lisa Quartararo

Woodbridge
Middlesex County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Lisa Blauvelt

Raleigh
Wake County, NC

Monarch

  • Monarch 1

Bob and Karen Yukich

High Park
City of Toronto, ON

a slightly worn male; first record for the park; this species is always very rare at this latitude

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1

Tom Palmer

Marion Creek
Polk County, FL

Very wet from recent storms; some areas not easy to access.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 6
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 6
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Barred Yellow 13
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 9
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 7
  • Gulf Fritillary 6
  • Phaon Crescent 10
  • Pearl Crescent 9
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 11
  • Viceroy 1
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 7
  • Zarucco Duskywing 4
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Walter Wallenstein

Navy Wells
Miami-Dade County, FL

8:30-12:00

  • Great Southern White 6
  • Barred Yellow 17
  • Dainty Sulphur 8
  • Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak 10
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 13
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 13
  • White Peacock 8
  • Queen 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 2
  • Baracoa Skipper 9
  • Palatka Skipper 1

Baracoa Skipper

Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak

Barred Yellow

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest
Sarpy County, NE

I went out from 12:00 - 2:00. It was around 75 degrees and cloudy. First time I have seen a Harvester.

  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 2
  • Cabbage White 14
  • Orange Sulphur 31
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Dainty Sulphur 3
  • Harvester 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 35
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Eastern Comma 5
  • Painted Lady 53
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Common Sootywing 3

Common Checkered-Skipper

Painted Lady

Monarch

Black Swallowtail

Harvester

Harvester

Eastern Comma

Jeanette Klodzen

Twin Lakes Loop (Big Cottonwood Canyon)
Salt Lake County, UT

Lots of Frits flying!

  • Blue Copper
  • California Tortoiseshell
  • Mourning Cloak
  • Weidemeyer's Admiral

Judy Molnar

Home AKA Monarch Waystation #271
Newport News city, VA

Frit looked like it was scoping out the Violet leaves scattered in the front yard as well as nectaring on various flowers.

  • Variegated Fritillary 1

Marcus Gray

Lincoln
Penobscot County, ME

Naturalized area behind the Whitetail Inn. Thistles, burdock & goldenrod were blooming.

  • American Lady 25
  • Monarch 3

Tom Palmer

Hilochee WMA Osprey Unit
Polk County, FL

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 9
  • Barred Yellow 8
  • Sleepy Orange 18
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 129
  • Zebra Heliconian 5
  • Variegated Fritillary 5
  • White Peacock 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 7
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Sleepy Orange

Variegated Fritillary

Zebra Heliconian

Bob Padgett

Reed Road, Smyrna, Georgia
Cobb County, GA

We last saw a Zebra Longwing in September 2013. We have had one individual in our butterfly garden on and off for a full week. Our last sighting was August 6th 2017.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Admiral 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Fiery Skipper 2

Zebra Heliconian

Zebra Heliconian

Jeff Pavlik

Rose Lake WMA
Clinton County, MI

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 9
  • Gray Comma 1
  • Red-spotted Admiral 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Shelby Heeter

SGL # 282 Akeley Swamp
Warren County, PA

Funereal Duskywing- sorry this is the best of bad photos

  • Funereal Duskywing 1

Funereal Duskywing

Marcus Gray

Lakeville
Penobscot County, ME

Our family camp off Depot Road.

  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Viceroy 1

Painted Lady

Kathy Barylski

Antietam Nat'l Battlefield
Washington County, MD

11:30-4:30, with a lunch break. Temps rising from mid-70s to low 80s; cloudiness decreasing from p/m cloudy to m sunny.
Only covered a small portion of the park - most of West Woods, and Bloody Lane to Roulette Farm and the Nature Trail.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 25+
  • Clouded Sulphur 5-8
  • Orange Sulphur 40+
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • American Copper 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 5-8
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 40+
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 10
  • Meadow Fritillary 11
  • Silvery Checkerspot 15
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Painted Lady 11-13
  • Red Admiral 5
  • Common Buckeye 40+
  • Northern Pearly-eye 3
  • Monarch 9
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 40+
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4-5
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 50+
  • Common Sootywing 12-15
  • Swarthy Skipper 7-8
  • Peck's Skipper 10
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 5-10
  • Crossline Skipper 5
  • Little Glassywing 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 26-30
  • Dun Skipper 6

Common Checkered-Skipper

Juniper Hairstreak

Meadow Fritillary

Northern Pearly-eye

Silvery Checkerspot

Swarthy Skipper

Variegated Fritillary

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Common Buckeye

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Saw several species off and on throughout the day…sunny and muggy conditions this morning and then somewhat cooler after rainfall, only to steam up again!! LOL

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 6
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 3

Black Swallowtail

Long-tailed Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Savage Park
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Northern Pearly-eye 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Zabulon Skipper

Northern Pearly-eye

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

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

Ron Smith

Various parks/preserves within Pinellas County
Pinellas County, FL

Expected, but not seen - E.Tiger, Three-spotted Skipper, Monarch, Monk Skipper & Common Buckeye.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Polydamas Swallowtail 1
  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 17
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 6
  • Statira Sulphur 11
  • Barred Yellow 25
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 8
  • Dainty Sulphur 11
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Pygmy-Blue 14
  • Cassius Blue 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 11
  • Gulf Fritillary 19
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Mangrove Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 76
  • Viceroy 1
  • Queen 4
  • Horace's Duskywing 11
  • White Checkered-Skipper 10
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 3
  • Fiery Skipper 34
  • Whirlabout 5
  • Sachem 2
  • Brazilian Skipper 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 3
  • Obscure Skipper 2

Cloudless Sulphur

Sleepy Orange

Queen

Pearl Crescent

Salt Marsh Skipper

Pipevine Swallowtail

David H. Bartholomew

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Pale Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Coronis Fritillary 1
  • Mylitta Crescent 3
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Lorquin's Admiral 4
  • Common Ringlet 28
  • Mournful Duskywing 10
  • Persius Duskywing 1
  • Woodland Skipper 12

Mournful Duskywing

Mylitta Crescent

Pale Swallowtail

Woodland Skipper

Chris Blazo

Twin Bridge Rd. Fields
Franklin County, PA

A hilltop field with red and white clovers and lespedeza. Unfortunately much Horse Nettle as well. Ouch!

  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur common
  • Orange Sulphur abundant
  • American Copper 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 7
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue common
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • American Snout 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Meadow Fritillary 11
  • Pearl Crescent abundant
  • American Lady 5
  • Painted Lady 8
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Common Buckeye 7
  • Viceroy 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch common
  • Silver-spotted Skipper abundant
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Common Sootywing 2
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper common
  • Peck's Skipper 6
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 4
  • Sachem 12
  • Dun Skipper 2

Chris Blazo

Wilson College Butterfly Garden
Franklin County, PA

A very small garden that attracts decent numbers.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • American Copper 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent 21
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 70+
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Least Skipper 10
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Crossline Skipper 3
  • Sachem 6
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 1

Chris Blazo

Weber and Rolling Rd. fields & power line right-of-way
Franklin County, PA

  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 13
  • Clouded Sulphur 7
  • Orange Sulphur 22
  • American Copper 27
  • Juniper Hairstreak 2
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 4
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 16
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Snout 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Silvery Checkerspot 3
  • Pearl Crescent 40+
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 9
  • Silver-spotted Skipper abundant
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Swarthy Skipper 5
  • Least Skipper 34
  • Peck's Skipper 8
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 3

Brett Badeaux

Fullerton Arboretum
Orange County, CA

Full sun, 86F. I’ve never seen such a white Cloudless Sulphur

  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cabbage White 12+
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Large Orange Sulphur 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 8
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 1
  • Marine Blue abundant
  • Gulf Fritillary 12+
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Monarch 4
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Eufala Skipper 6

Cloudless Sulphur

Eufala Skipper

John Lampkin

Triple Creek Preserve
Hillsborough County, FL

With Karen Finch
87-93; 2.5 hours

  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Sleepy Orange 5
  • Gulf Fritillary 23
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Viceroy 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 2
  • Dorantes Longtail 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 8
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Delaware Skipper 1

Ryan Johnson

Varden Conservation Area
Wayne County, PA

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Viceroy 5
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2

Viceroy

Cabbage White

Robert Bell

Eagle Run trails
Iosco County, MI

Sunny to Mostly Cloudy
76-80 degrees

  • Giant Swallowtail 5
  • Mustard White 1
  • Northern Crescent 2
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Northern Pearly-eye 6
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

70F

  • Anise Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Monarch 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

John Heyse

Carquinez Shoreline, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

69F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Common Ringlet 1

Michael Diederich

19 Chappaqua Mountain Road, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Barb Manning

On a country road
Polk County, IA

It was around the mid 80’s, sunny, a little wind.
I am not positive on the count of Melissa Blues, could of been 5.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Melissa Blue 4
  • Gorgone Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 1

Alan Wells

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

From 1:45 PM to 4 PM; Temperature 79 to 84 F; wind gusts 5-8 mph from NE. With Della Wells.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 9
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 4
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Painted 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

David Barrett

Central Park
New York County, NY

40 minutes of observation. Sunny, 82 F. Fewer butterflies than usual at this time of year.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Monarch 3

Edward Perry IV

McLarty State Treasure Museum, part of Sebastian Inlet State Park
Indian River County, FL

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Great Southern White 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Statira Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Mangrove Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 2
  • Mangrove Skipper 1

Statira Sulphur

Giant Swallowtail

Mangrove Skipper

Michael Drake

Palmyra Cove
Burlington County, NJ

Sunny, low 80’s

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 48
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Question Mark 1
  • Eastern Comma 19
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 28
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 9
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 67
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 6
  • Least Skipper 6
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 68
  • Broad-winged Skipper 35
  • Dun Skipper 35

John J. Collins

Hyper Humus
Sussex County, NJ

Leaderless Walk - 10 participants

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 39
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Monarch 10
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 7
  • Broad-winged Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 1

Allen Belden

Maymont
Richmond city, VA

Mostly sunny, high around 80. Around 200 Sachems and 50 Silver-spotted Skippers seen.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 11
  • American Lady 5
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 10
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper common
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 32
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Sachem abundant
  • Dun Skipper 1

American Lady

Clouded Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Sunny, a little breezy and 80 degrees during observation.

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Tom Palmer

My yard
Polk County, FL

First White M seen in yard

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 21
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Cassius Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • White Peacock 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1

Judy Molnar

Home AKA Monarch Waystation #271
Newport News city, VA

Incidental sighting out the front window of butterfly laying eggs on Swamp milkweed and Tropical milkweed in the front yard. The butterfly’s antics briefly distracted a hummingbird from nectaring nearby.

  • Monarch 1

Lori M. Carlson

1507 US Hwy 70A East, Hillsborough, BC
Orange County, NC

Butterfly observed in our home garden on short-toothed mountain mint. Lifetime first sighting for our yard of this species.

  • White M Hairstreak 1

White M Hairstreak

White M Hairstreak

Michael Diederich

19 Chappaqua Mountain Road, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 7
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1

Robert Bell

Wigwam Bay - East Unit
Arenac County, MI

Partly cloudy - 78 degrees
11:40AM to 3:40PM

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 19
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • Northern Crescent 23
  • Red Admiral 5
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 74
  • Least Skipper 12

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Curtis A. Lehman

Frick Park, Pittsburgh
Allegheny County, PA

Also 6 Sleepy Orange caterpillars on Cassia.

  • Cabbage White 3
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Question Mark 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Peck's Skipper 6
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 8

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Gray Hairstreak 1

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 2

Bill Berthet

Forest Roads East of US 441 to Forest Road 235 including Impassable Bay and Big Gum Swamp in Osceola National Forest Columbia/Baker Counties.
Baker County, FL

6th annual Windshield Survey: Swallowtails Only: Partly Cloudy, Mid 80’s, 0-5 MPH wind. About 80% of Swallowtails were mineralizing on Forest Roads, other 20% were nectaring on Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) or Redroot (Lachnanthes caroliniana)

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 12
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 45
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 331

Michael Drake

Dixon Meadow
Montgomery County, PA

Low 80’s, mostly sunny

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur common
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 22
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Monarch 8
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Tom Palmer

Lucky Hammock
Miami-Dade County, FL

This is an area about a mile outside ENP that contains open fields and a small hammock.

  • Great Southern White 22
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Cassius Blue 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Julia Heliconian 2
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 14
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 16
  • Soldier 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1

Tom Palmer

Flamingo, Everglades National Park
Monroe County, FL

Cloudy,light rain, heavy mosquitoes

  • Great Southern White 52
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 12
  • Mangrove Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Sleepy Orange
  • White M Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • American Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Denis C. Quinn

Eastern Neck NWR Butterfly garden mostly
Kent County, MD

Late season, nectar sources fading, however this is a great place to see butterflies, especially southern migrants.Commas and Question Marks were on Boardwalk Island on Woodpecker workings.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 14
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 8
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 11
  • Gray Hairstreak 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Question Mark 4
  • Eastern Comma 3
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 5
  • Red Admiral 12
  • Common Buckeye 21
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 2
  • Monarch 9
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 35
  • Fiery Skipper 8
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 3
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 5
  • Broad-winged Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 1

Zabulon Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Zebra Swallowtail

Little Glassywing

Dun Skipper

Crossline Skipper

Cloudless Sulphur

Broad-winged Skipper

Chris Herz & Jean Gutsmuth

Chesapeake Farms, Chestertown
Kent County, MD

Driving tour only

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 10
  • Cabbage White 10
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 7
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 6
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 14
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8

Chris Herz & Jean Gutsmuth

Eastern Neck NWR, Rock Hall
Kent County, MD

Partly cloudy but some sunny breaks. Devil’s walking stick in bloom attracting many azures.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 16
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 12
  • Cabbage White 7
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 9
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 7
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 16
  • American Snout 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 7
  • Pearl Crescent 18
  • Question Mark 2
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Red-spotted Purple 6
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 20
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Little Glassywing 2
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 12
  • Dun Skipper 2

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Cloudless Sulphur

Question Mark

Black Swallowtail

Zebra Swallowtail

Bart Jones

My home in midtown Memphis
Shelby County, TN

This is my first sighting of a Harvester at my home and was quite a surprise showing up in an urban neighborhood. My neighbor does have a beech tree in the yard which probably had woolly aphids for the Harvester caterpillars to eat.

  • Harvester 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 6

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Observed in backyard 9:30 am-1:00 pm
Saw Giant Swallowtail fly through yard…did not stop on wild lime bush :-(

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 1

Tropical Checkered-Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

Little Glassywing

Beth Polvino

North Cape May ~ my yard NABA #1151 & Monarch Waystation #8318
Cape May County, NJ

New yard butterfly #45 Hayhurst’s Scallopwing

  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • American Lady 3
  • Painted Lady 8
  • Common Buckeye 9
  • Monarch 9
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Common Sootywing 3
  • Sachem 11
  • Zabulon Skipper 7

Hayhurst's Scallopwing

Common Sootywing

Jeanette Klodzen

Mormon Pioneer Trail
Morgan County, UT

Sunny day 72-82 degrees

Went only about 2.25 miles before turning around — I found the female Great Spangled Frits I was looking for! (The males have been flying for a few weeks already.)

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail
  • Two-tailed Swallowtail
  • Mustard White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Ruddy Copper
  • Blue Copper
  • Lilac-bordered Copper
  • Coral Hairstreak
  • Melissa Blue
  • Great Basin Fritillary common
  • Atlantis Fritillary
  • Field Crescent
  • Mylitta Crescent
  • Satyr Comma
  • Painted Lady
  • Weidemeyer's Admiral
  • Small Wood-Nymph
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Woodland Skipper abundant

Great Spangled Fritillary

Great Spangled Fritillary

Selvi Viswanathan

Our yard 690, Los Pueblos, Los Alamos NM
Los Alamos County, NM

First Monarch sighting in our yard this year at 10.25am. IT stayed on the buddleia blossom for 2 minutes giving a nice show and I took pictures.

  • Painted Crescent 2
  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Monarch

Monarch

Monarch

Monarch

Ron Smith

Weedon Island Preserve
Pinellas County, FL

Mid-day / Statira’s feeding on the many fire bushes at the preserve entrance

  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 3
  • Statira Sulphur 12
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Dainty Sulphur 4
  • Ceraunus Blue 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • Mangrove Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 31
  • White Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 8

Ceraunus Blue

Mangrove Buckeye

Statira Sulphur

Andrew Block

20 Hancock Ave., Yonkers,
Westchester County, NY

The Spicebushes were newly emerged adult males sitting on my plants in my yard. Probably were raised on the big Sassafras in my yard.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2

Michael Diederich

19 Chappaqua Mountain Road, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • American Lady 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Hobomok Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Jeanette Klodzen

Otter Creek and Koosharem Canyon
Sevier County, UT

Just passing thru, didn’t stay long.

  • Orange Sulphur
  • Queen Alexandra's Sulphur 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper

Ken Wilson

Tijuana River Valley, San Diego
San Diego County, CA

Sunny, mid 80s, breezy.

  • Anise Swallowtail
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Marine Blue
  • Mourning Cloak
  • Painted Lady
  • Lorquin's Admiral
  • Fiery Skipper

Western Tiger Swallowtail

Painted Lady

Giant Swallowtail

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

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

Bart Jones

Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park and Eagle Lake WMA
Shelby County, TN

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Checkered White
  • Cabbage White
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • American Snout abundant
  • Silvery Checkerspot
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Red Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Viceroy
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Tawny Emperor
  • Carolina Satyr
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Horace's Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Clouded Skipper
  • Least Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

Cloudless Sulphur

Monarch

Silvery Checkerspot

'Summer' Spring Azure

Viceroy

Zabulon Skipper

Checkered White

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Low humidity, sunny and 72 degrees during the sighting. Monarch visited the milkweeds, salvia, Arizona Blanket and butterfly bushes to mention a few. Peck’s Skipper visited the blossoms on chives

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Lisa Quartararo

Woodbridge, NJ
Middlesex County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Banded Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

John J. Collins

Duke Island Park, Bridgewater
Somerset County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 1

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Mournful Duskywing 1

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

excellent day for backyard butterflying
Very hot and humid, butterflies galore!!
Observed 3 hrs in the am 10:00-1:00 and then again early evening for 2 hrs

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 7
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Black Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Monarch

Gulf Fritillary

Pearl Crescent

Mike Reese

Mariner Trail, Manitowoc to Two Rivers, rest areas
Manitowoc County, WI

My first Sachem (female) and Fiery Skipper (male) of the year.

  • Cabbage White 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Monarch 9
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1

Sachem

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

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

Alan R Mennig

White Horse Village Retirement Community (backyard)
Delaware County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 10
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Walter Wallenstein

Long Key Natural Area
Broward County, FL

  • Giant Swallowtail 5
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 15
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow 9
  • Cassius Blue 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 36
  • Julia Heliconian 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 42
  • Pearl Crescent 19
  • White Peacock 32
  • Ruddy Daggerwing 5
  • Tawny Emperor 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 14
  • Soldier 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 16
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Sachem 1

Mary Lynn Delfino

Springfield Bog Metro Park
Summit County, OH

Did the park loop from 2:00-3:45 p.m. Temps in the high 70s. I could have sworn I saw a Southern Dogface or Cloudless Sulphur flying high and fast around the perimeter of the property, but I couldn’t get close enough for an ID or a picture. Both would be rare for this area.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 6
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Viceroy 2
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Black Swallowtail

Viceroy

Great Spangled Fritillary

Common Checkered-Skipper

Black Swallowtail

Monarch

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Robert Bell

Tuttle Marsh
Iosco County, MI

10:45AM to 3:00PM
Sunny, 63 to 77 degrees
with Phil Odum

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Mustard White 5
  • Cabbage White 19
  • Dorcas Copper 5
  • Striped Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 8
  • Silver-bordered Fritillary 1
  • Northern Crescent 12
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 21
  • Viceroy 18
  • Common Ringlet 4
  • Common Wood-Nymph 4
  • Monarch 14
  • Dun Skipper 1

Andrew Block

various parks, Madison to Stratford,
New Haven County, CT

Went to Hammonasset Bch. S.P., Milford Pt., Stratford Pt., Leete’s Island Marsh and places in between. Mostly in New Haven Co. People at Stratford mentioned they had Swarthy Skipper and one or two other skippers, a Snout or two, and three White M Hairstreaks, but we didn’t. All seen while birding.

  • Black Swallowtail 7+
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8+
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6+
  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur common
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Painted Lady common
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Monarch common
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Michael Drake

Morris Arboretum
Philadelphia County, PA

80, mostly sunny, breezy

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 20
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • Red Admiral 5
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 11
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 15
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Sachem 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 10
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Jean Evoy

Arcadia
DeSoto County, FL

Many butterfliesnectaring on pickerelweed and buttonbush; Zebra Swallowtail puddling on shell road after rain.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail common
  • Zebra Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Palamedes Swallowtail
  • Great Southern White
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Barred Yellow
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Dainty Sulphur
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Zebra Heliconian
  • Viceroy
  • Monarch
  • Queen common
  • Long-tailed Skipper
  • White Checkered-Skipper
  • Least Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Whirlabout common
  • Eufala Skipper

Zebra Swallowtail

Alan Wells

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

Survey from 12:30 PM to 4:15 PM; overcast skies. air temperatures 75-78 F; wind gusts 3-7 mph. Weekly survey with Nancy Slowik.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 11
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Northern Pearly-eye 1
  • Appalachian Brown 3
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Beth Polvino

North Cape May ~ my yard NABA #1151 & Monarch Waystation #8318
Cape May County, NJ

Rare Southern migrant seen in my yard. Last seen in 2014 in Cape May County, Before that 2012 and 2010. This Brazilian Skipper was flying fast and furiously before landing for just seconds on cannas. Seen several times over 3 hrs.

  • Brazilian Skipper 1

Brazilian Skipper

Michael Diederich

19 Chappaqua Mountain Road, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

All butterflies seen feeding on Butterfly Bush.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 7
  • Hobomok Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Saw a Cassius Blue in my garden 8/14/17..I was told this is a very rare sighting for SC Attaching a terrible photo…he flew off so fast

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 12
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1

Cassius Blue

Glenn Koppel

Leonard B Harrison State Park
Tioga County, PA

  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • White Admiral 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Sleepy Orange
  • White M Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Horace's Duskywing
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Horace's Duskywing

Bill Berthet

John Bethea State Forest: Forest Roads 21-6 and 6A Moccasin Swamp F.R. 10 Pinhook Swamp Parts of F.R. 295-296F-296B
Baker County, FL

Windshield Survey Swallowtails Only 10:00am-1:30pm
Sunny to light rain Mid 80’s Winds S.E. 5-15
Overall habitat wet, some roads closed due to flooding
Most are freshly emerged mineralizing on Forest Roads or nectaring on Carolina Redroot (Lachnanthes caroliniana)

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 17
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 86
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 601

Palamedes Swallowtail, Spicebush Swallowtail

Spicebush Swallowtail

Palamedes Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

John J. Collins

Raritan Greenway
Somerset County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 6
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Question Mark 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Judy Molnar

Home AKA Monarch Waystation #271
Newport News city, VA

Incidental sighting while looking out the 2nd story back window and gardening earlier out front. The Coral Honeysuckle out back briefly caught the attention of the sulphur. A Vanessa [either Painted or American Lady] was seen nectaring on Rudbeckia hirta in the back, but from the 2nd floor could not tell which Lady. Two Monarch caterpillars [3rd & 4th instars] were found and reported to Journey North in the front yard earlier in the day.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1

Jim Wilkinson

Elkhorn Garden Plots
Howard County, MD

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 7
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 2
  • Sachem 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 6
  • Dun Skipper 2

Fiery Skipper

Dun Skipper

Painted Lady

Cloudless Sulphur

Beth Polvino

North Cape May ~ my yard NABA #1151 & Monarch Waystation #8318
Cape May County, NJ

American Snout still checking out the Hackberry Tree. Red Admiral laying eggs on False Nettle. 4 pairs of Monarchs mating at the same time mid afternoon, Black Swallowtails also mating. cats in garden continuing.

  • Black Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 9
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • American Snout 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Painted Lady 4
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 8
  • Monarch 12
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Sachem 15
  • Zabulon Skipper 8

Question Mark

Red Admiral

Monarch

Judy Molnar

Virginia Living Museum AKA Monarch Waystation #299
Newport News city, VA

The ET Swallowtail was attracted to a large pink flower made of Legos before it figured out it wasn’t real, behind the main museum building. CW was in Children’s Learning Garden. VLM is hosting a Legos Sculpture exhibition on the grounds in the Conservation and Virginia gardens though Nov 22. Sightings made as I volunteered outdoors between 8:15 and 11 am or so.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1

Brett Badeaux

San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary
Orange County, CA

Sunny, 70F

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 12+
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 1
  • Marine Blue 1
  • Fatal Metalmark 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Monarch 4
  • White Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper common

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak

Western Pygmy-Blue

Marine Blue

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Observed in backyard for approx 3 hrs 9am-12pm
Surprised to see so many butterflies during cloudy conditions…temps in 80’s
Observed 2 hrs afternoon in backyard…sunny and hot

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 7
  • Zebra Heliconian 1

Gulf Fritillary

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Ron Smith

Dunedin Hammock Park
Pinellas County, FL

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • White Peacock 15
  • Viceroy 2
  • Monarch 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2

White Peacock

Tropical Checkered-Skipper

Gray Hairstreak

John J. Collins

Wallkill River NWR - Liberty Loop Tail
Sussex County, NJ

Leaderless Walks. 6 Participants. Cloudy and warm. Only a bit of drizzled rain for 2-3 minutes at one point.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • Monarch 6
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Andy Birkey

Coldwater Spring, Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
Hennepin County, MN

Funereal Duskywing is new for me, and apparently for Minnesota. The closest record I can find is from central and southern Wisconsin. Hazy sunshine, wet trails, calm wind, and highs in the mid-70s. Two stops today. One from 11-noon, and again from 4-5pm.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 10
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • Eastern Comma 3
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Monarch common
  • Funereal Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper common
  • Peck's Skipper 8
  • Sachem 2

Painted Lady

Monarch

Pearl Crescent

Funereal Duskywing

Funereal Duskywing

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

The very fresh Ocola Skipper was the first one of the year for me.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper
  • Ocola Skipper

Ocola Skipper

John J. Collins

Wallkill River NWR - Liberty Loop Trail
Orange County, NY

Leaderless walks - 6 participants. Cloudy but warm. Only a bit of drizzled rain for 2-3 minutes at one point.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Question Mark 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 5
  • Least Skipper 11

Question Mark

Bill Berthet

John Bethea S.F. and N.E. Block Pinhook Swamp: Extend survey from yesterday. FR 295 past FR 296E then turning into FR 3 ending at 125 Eddie Grade Road, FR4, FR9, FR5, FR5a, FR297c, FR297, and FR 8
Baker County, FL

Windshield Survey: Swallowtails Only: 10:45 - 2:15 Sunny Mid 80’s Winds S.E. 5-10
Overall habitat wet, 297c closed due to flooding,
Most are freshly emerged: About 40% mineralizing on Forest Roads, 60% nectaring on Carolina Redroot (Lachnanthes caroliniana)

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 23
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 69
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 952

Kathy Barylski

Antietam Natl Battlefield
Washington County, MD

Covered the southern section - Burnside Bridge, Otto Farm, Final Attack trail, most of Snively Ford trail. Conditions upper 70s rising to mid-80s; mostly sunny. 3.5 hours in the afternoon alone. Additional minimum 10 unid grass skippers. My first field day over 500 individuals!

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 10
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 12
  • Gray Hairstreak 100+
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 90
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 47
  • Silvery Checkerspot 9
  • Pearl Crescent 15
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Red Admiral 4-5
  • Common Buckeye 30
  • Hackberry Emperor 28
  • Monarch 9
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 15
  • Common Sootywing 12
  • Swarthy Skipper 10-15
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 40+
  • Crossline Skipper 12-15
  • Sachem 25
  • Zabulon Skipper 4
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Common Buckeye

Crossline Skipper

Eastern Comma

Gray Hairstreak

Hackberry Emperor

Ocola Skipper

Red Admiral

Red-banded Hairstreak

Silvery Checkerspot

Tawny-edged Skipper

Variegated Fritillary

Zabulon Skipper

Darrell Davis

yard at Walkersville, MD
Frederick County, MD

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 6
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • American Snout 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Monarch 4

Beth Polvino

North Cape May ~ my yard NABA #1151 & Monarch Waystation #8318
Cape May County, NJ

Question Mark laying eggs. Cloudless Sulphur’s mating. Hot and humid temps mid-80’s with little wind.

  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 9
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 9
  • Monarch 12
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Sachem 15
  • Zabulon Skipper 7

Cloudless Sulphur

Question Mark

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mournful Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2

John Heyse

Martinez Marsh, Carquinez Shoreline, Mtz
Contra Costa County, CA

75F

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Woodland Skipper 2

Michael Diederich

19 Chappaqua Mountain Road, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

All feeding on Butterfly Bush.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 9
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Mike Reese

Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve
Manitowoc County, WI

My first American Snout in Wisconsin since 2007!

  • Cabbage White 5
  • American Snout 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Monarch 4
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1

American Snout

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Sunny and about 82 with some humidity early afternoon.

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3

Pearl Crescent

Ellen Honeycutt

Canton
Cherokee County, GA

First time I’ve seen a Zebra Heliconian in my garden.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Zebra Heliconian

Chris Blazo

Bricker Rd. Farm Field
Franklin County, PA

Large field that’s filled with lespedeza.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Clouded Sulphur 21
  • Orange Sulphur 33
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • American Copper 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 5
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 19
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 9
  • American Snout 4
  • Variegated Fritillary 24
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent 35+
  • American Lady 2
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Monarch 11
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 100+
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 10
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Common Sootywing 50+
  • Swarthy Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 30
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 9
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Hayhurst's Scallopwing

Ocola Skipper

Red-banded Hairstreak

Gray Hairstreak

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Fiery Skipper

Ahmet Baytas

Montclair
Essex County, NJ

12-1 pm. Presby Iris Gardens, Upper Montclair.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Sachem 1

Julie Appleget

Mckinney Sink rd
Hernando County, FL

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 6
  • Little Yellow 8
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • White Peacock 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Viceroy 4
  • Queen 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 7
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1

Red-spotted Purple

Robert Bell

Kitchen Rd
Iosco County, MI

4:00 to 4:30PM
Partly cloudy, 75 degrees
My first Leonard’s Skipper of the year

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Northern Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 5
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2
  • Leonard's Skipper 1

Robert Bell

Delano Rd.
Arenac County, MI

2:00 to 3:15PM
Partly Cloudy, 73 degrees

  • Mustard White 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Meadow Fritillary 34
  • Northern Crescent 31
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 3
  • Least Skipper 3

Ron Smith

Fort De Soto Park
Pinellas County, FL

In-between rain drops

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 4
  • Eastern Pygmy-Blue 51
  • Cassius Blue 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 12
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Phaon Crescent 7
  • Painted Lady 1
  • White Peacock 11
  • White Checkered-Skipper 40
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 7
  • Fiery Skipper 14
  • Obscure Skipper 1

Great Southern White

Painted Lady

Fiery Skipper

White Checkered-Skipper

White Checkered-Skipper

Painted Lady

Jeanette Klodzen

Lake Solitude - Twin Lakes Loop (Big Cottonwood Canyon)
Salt Lake County, UT

Elevation: 8760-9600ft

Sun in the late afternoon

  • Mustard White
  • Ruddy Copper
  • Blue Copper
  • Zerene Fritillary

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Seen these butterflies late afternoon,78 degrees and very humid following a rainstorm.

  • Cabbage White 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • American Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Judy Molnar

Virginia Living Museum AKA Monarch Waystation #299
Newport News city, VA

Sightings incidental to volunteering at VLM from 8:15 to about 11 am. Female monarch nectared on Virgin’s Bower on a trellis next to Holt Conservatory @9:30 for a long time. Duskywing nectared on Rudbeckia. ETSwtl at Goodson House, SSS in Children’s Learning Garden area on basking on Ironweed.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1

Joanne Langabee

Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, NE
Douglas County, NE

I was out from 10 - 1. it was a little windy, 15 mph, sunny and average temperature around 75. I saw around 45 skippers I could not identify because they flew off so fast.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Checkered White 139
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 40
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 19
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 8
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Painted Lady 37
  • Common Buckeye 8
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 38
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 32
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Sachem 4
  • Dun Skipper 3

Monarch

Variegated Fritillary

Variegated Fritillary

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Painted Lady

Variegated Fritillary

Monarch

Little Yellow

Marcus Gray

Middle Valley
Morris County, NJ

Gray family garden. Fiery Skipper was a surprise. Monarch was a female.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Least Skipper

Peck's Skipper

Spicebush Swallowtail

Mark and Holly Salvato

Everglades National Park
Miami-Dade County, FL

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Florida Leafwing 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1

Florida Leafwing

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • American Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Elkhorn Garden Plots
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Little Glassywing 4
  • Sachem 15
  • Zabulon Skipper 10
  • Dun Skipper 6

Fiery Skipper

Monarch

Marcie Daniels

Summerville (My Backyard)
Dorchester County, SC

Hot, humid…90’s
Observed 3 hrs 9:30 am-12:30

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 25
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1

Zebra Heliconian

Amelia Grimm

Key West Garden Club, West Martello
Monroe County, FL

Part of Key West count with DOlle, LWilliams, BHarty.

  • Lyside Sulphur 8
  • Fulvous Hairstreak 1
  • Monarch 5
  • Florida Duskywing 4
  • Monk Skipper 1

Amelia Grimm

Sonny McCoy Indigenous Park, Key West
Monroe County, FL

Part of Key West count with DOlle, LWilliams, AGrimm, BHarty.

  • Great Southern White 6
  • Lyside Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Three-spotted Skipper 2

Amelia Grimm

Geiger Beach (Boca Chica Key)
Monroe County, FL

Part of Key West count with DOlle, LWilliams, AGrimm, BHarty.

  • Great Southern White 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Martial Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Cassius Blue 7
  • Hammock Skipper 3, 3 larvae
  • Fiery Skipper 2

Amelia Grimm

Naval Air Station Key West, interior
Monroe County, FL

Part of Key West count, DOlle, LWilliams, AGrimm, BHarty, MMartin.

  • Great Southern White 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow 10
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Pygmy-Blue 15
  • Ceraunus Blue 20
  • Gulf Fritillary 7
  • Mangrove Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 4

Allan R. Loudell

On gas pump at 10 A.M.
Shenandoah County, VA

  • Hackberry Emperor 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

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

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Very hot and humid conditions
Observed in backyard for approx 4 hrs

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 25
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Little Glassywing 1

Palamedes Swallowtail

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Mark and Holly Salvato

Saddlebunch Keys
Monroe County, FL

  • Great Southern White 25
  • Large Orange Sulphur 2
  • Martial Scrub-Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Pygmy-Blue 250
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Mangrove Buckeye 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1

Martial Scrub-Hairstreak

Eastern Pygmy-Blue

Mark and Holly Salvato

Key West Tropical Forest and Botanical Garden, Stock Island
Monroe County, FL

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 24
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 45
  • Lyside Sulphur 35
  • Barred Yellow 10
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Martial Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Cassius Blue 6
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Cuban Crescent 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Mangrove Skipper 1
  • Hammock Skipper 8
  • Florida Duskywing 3
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Monk Skipper 2
  • Brazilian Skipper 1

Lyside Sulphur

Martial Scrub-Hairstreak

Three-spotted Skipper

Cuban Crescent

Cuban Crescent

Brazilian Skipper

Mark and Holly Salvato

Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, Key West
Monroe County, FL

  • Great Southern White 46
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 23
  • Lyside Sulphur 4
  • Barred Yellow 174
  • Little Yellow 139
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 6
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Common Buckeye 37
  • Queen 3
  • Mangrove Skipper 1
  • Hammock Skipper 2

Hammock Skipper

Chris Herz

Longwood Gardens meadow
Chester County, PA

All species from the meadow with the exception of the red admiral. Sunny and 85 degrees. First time seeing a zebra ST here—sorry for the blurry photo. 4 dark E. Tiger ST.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 21
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 15
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 7
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 8
  • Monarch 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 9
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 3
  • Sachem 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 4

Sleepy Orange

Great Spangled Fritillary

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Zebra Swallowtail

Jeanette Klodzen

Koosharem Canyon (outside Koosharem UT)
Sevier County, UT

Sunny, mid-70s in the morning

Elevation: ~6900ft

The Canyonland Satyr and both Meads and Great Basin Wood Nymphs are lifers. (Add that to the Nokomis earlier in the day — it’s a 4 lifers day!)

  • Queen Alexandra's Sulphur
  • Canyonland Satyr
  • Mead's Wood-Nymph
  • Great Basin Wood-Nymph
  • Common Branded Skipper

Great Basin Wood-Nymph

Great Basin Wood-Nymph

Great Basin Wood-Nymph

Great Basin Wood-Nymph

Canyonland Satyr

Jeanette Klodzen

Otter Creek (5 miles north of Koosharem UT)
Sevier County, UT

Sunny, mid-70s in the morning

Elevation ~6900 ft

Went specifically to find the Nokomis Frits - Lifer!

  • Mustard White 1
  • Purplish Copper
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Nokomis Fritillary 7
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper

Common Wood-Nymph

Nokomis Fritillary

Nokomis Fritillary

Nokomis Fritillary

Great Spangled Fritillary

Mark Adams

Piedmont Store, Clark Rd., Shiflett’s Mill Rd., Jarmans Gap Rd.
Albemarle County, VA

11:00 – 16:40 EDT. Mostly sunny, 85-91 deg F, wind variable 0-5 mph. A fine field day that yielded my VA 2017-season-high single-day butterfly species count (30), good numbers of butterflies overall, and my best skipper species diversity this season, though skipper numbers were dominated by the Sachem hordes.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 40
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 25
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Sleepy Orange 12
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 12
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 7
  • American Snout 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 12
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 6
  • Silvery Checkerspot 5
  • Pearl Crescent 10
  • Question Mark 1
  • Eastern Comma 5
  • Common Buckeye 11
  • Red-spotted Purple 11
  • Northern Pearly-eye 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 50
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 11
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Crossline Skipper 10
  • Little Glassywing 2
  • Sachem 150
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Cloudless Sulphur

Cabbage White

Least Skipper

Red-spotted Purple

Great Spangled Fritillary

Zabulon Skipper

Northern Pearly-eye

Eastern Comma

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Sachem

Michael Diederich

19 Chappaqua Mountain Road, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 7
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 15
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 7

Walter Wallenstein

Private residence in Davie, Fl
Broward County, FL

  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Julia Heliconian 2
  • Zebra Heliconian 30
  • White Peacock 2
  • Malachite 2
  • Ruddy Daggerwing 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Queen 4
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 2
  • Three-spotted Skipper 30
  • Clouded Skipper 4
  • Monk Skipper 1

Walter Wallenstein

Long Key Natural Area
Broward County, FL

1:45pm-3:00pm

  • Giant Swallowtail 7
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 13
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 14
  • Julia Heliconian 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 30
  • Pearl Crescent 14
  • White Peacock 16
  • Ruddy Daggerwing 4
  • Tawny Emperor 2
  • Queen 8
  • Horace's Duskywing 6
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2

Jim Wilkinson

Hopewell area Columbia
Howard County, MD

one adult Monarch, one chrysalis and over a dozen caterpillars on tropical milkweed in a garden

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Monarch 15
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 2

Monarch

Zabulon Skipper

Pearl Crescent

Monarch chrysalis

Appalachian Brown

Linda Cooper

Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL

9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 78 to 94 degrees; 90% sun all day. Very few fall flowers in bloom. Surveyed all but Crossover Rd. LCooper, SFarnsworth, DGates, EPerry, RWarner.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 53
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 21
  • Cloudless Sulphur 45
  • Barred Yellow 9
  • Little Yellow 45
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 24
  • Ceraunus Blue 15
  • Little Metalmark 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 7
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • Pearl Crescent 14
  • Common Buckeye 70
  • White Peacock 50
  • Viceroy 25
  • Carolina Satyr 6
  • Monarch 2
  • Queen 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 3
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Confused Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 9
  • Zarucco Duskywing 17
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 33
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Southern Broken-Dash 4
  • Sachem 1
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Palmetto Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Delaware Skipper

Tawny-edged Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Gray Hairstreak

Common Buckeye

Zebra Swallowtail

David L. Amadio

Eastern Neck NWR
Kent County, MD

Observations made from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Mid to high 80’s Mostly sunny. Found some good activity at a sap hole on a small Willow tree. Competing for the sap were several Question Marks, several Red Admirals and two Tawny Emperors. I have included a very poor flight image of a Sleepy Orange. This is only the 2nd time that I have encountered one here.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 14
  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 12
  • Cabbage White 10
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • Cloudless Sulphur 17
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 6
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 11
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 14
  • American Snout 4
  • Variegated Fritillary 4
  • Pearl Crescent 20
  • Question Mark 6
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Red Admiral 7
  • Common Buckeye 9
  • Red-spotted Purple 9
  • Viceroy 2
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Tawny Emperor 2
  • Appalachian Brown 4
  • Common Wood-Nymph 3
  • Monarch 14
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 12
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Sachem 13
  • Zabulon Skipper 7
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Tawny Emperor

Cloudless Sulphur

Painted Lady

Sleepy Orange

Appalachian Brown

Gray Hairstreak

Zebra Swallowtail

Jim Springer

High Point State Park
Sussex County, NJ

10:50am-1:00pm, 79F, partly cloudy

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 7
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 14
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Leonard's Skipper 1

Leonard's Skipper

Common Ringlet

Robert Bell

Tuttle Marsh
Iosco County, MI

10:45 to 2:45PM
Partly Cloudy, 63-75 degrees,

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Mustard White 5
  • Cabbage White 12
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Harvester 1
  • Dorcas Copper 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Northern Crescent 49
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 25
  • Viceroy 28
  • Common Ringlet 3
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2
  • Monarch 12
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Dun Skipper 8

Harvester

Tom Palmer

Bok Tower
Polk County, FL

Only surveyed native gardens surrounding visitor center

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 2
  • Barred Yellow 3
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 20
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 6
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 1
  • Monarch 9
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2

Tom Palmer

Hatchineha Road east of Firetower Road
Polk County, FL

Redroot and Bidens were main attractors. Also found Schinia gaurae (Flower moth)

  • Zebra Swallowtail 4
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Sleepy Orange 7
  • Dainty Sulphur 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 8
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 71
  • Viceroy 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 3
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 10
  • Zarucco Duskywing 13
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 9
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Sachem 4
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 24

Marcus Gray

Drew University
Morris County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Painted Lady 5
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 8

Red-banded Hairstreak

Zabulon Skipper

Laura Wright

Davidsonville State Park
Randolph County, AR

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 4
  • Carolina Satyr 2

Laura Wright

Jacksonport State Park
Jackson County, AR

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Hackberry Emperor superabundant
  • Monarch 3

Steven Glynn

High Point State Park areas
Sussex County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Least Skipper 7
  • Leonard's Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 6
  • Crossline Skipper 1

Leonard's Skipper

Crossline Skipper

Allan R. Loudell

Isaac Hayes/Tina Turner/Booker T. & the MG's Rest Area
Madison County, TN

Silver-Spotted Skipper on bench in rest area;
also many Cloudless Sulphurs later observed flying over the Interstate in west Tennessee

  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Lisa Quartararo

Woodbridge
Middlesex County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Question Mark 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Michael Diederich

19 Chappaqua Mountain Road, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 15
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 6

Curtis A. Lehman

Clarksburg
Indiana County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 6
  • Meadow Fritillary 4
  • Silvery Checkerspot 7
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Question Mark 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Northern Pearly-eye 3
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Denis C. Quinn

2 miles south of Kirkwood, PA 17536
Lancaster County, PA

Seen in a pasture with a thick clover patch about 400 feet long and 40 feet wide, at 10:00 in sunny and breezy conditions 78°-80°. Unusual not to see; Spicebush, S Azure here and Black Swallowtails have been scarce this season.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 66
  • Clouded Sulphur 78
  • Orange Sulphur 56
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 18
  • Variegated Fritillary 46
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Meadow Fritillary 24
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • American Lady 2
  • Painted Lady 35
  • Common Buckeye 42
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 18
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 89
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Common Sootywing 5
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Sachem 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Black Swallowtail

Variegated Fritillary

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Common Checkered-Skipper

Painted Lady

Common Buckeye

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Meadow Fritillary

Mary Lynn Delfino

Springfield Bog Metro Park
Summit County, OH

Very warm and sunny. Walked the park loop and around the pond from 2-4 p.m. I also had an unidentified American or Painted Lady as well as a small frit, possibly a meadow or silver-bordered. Both managed to fly off before I could make a positive ID.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 14
  • Clouded Sulphur 11
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 7
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 11
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 13
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 6
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Monarch

Silver-spotted Skipper

Viceroy

Little Yellow

Monarch

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Great Spangled Fritillary

Monarch

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Little Yellow

Peck's Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

The Pipevine Swallowtail was as small as a Cabbage White.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Mournful Duskywing 1
  • Small Checkered-Skipper 1

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Very hot and humid conditions remain
Observed in backyard 3 hrs in am and 2 hrs in late afternoon

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 15
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1

Palamedes Swallowtail

Gulf Fritillary

Karlo Mirth

Forest Park
Queens County, NY

What started out as a short birding walk ended up with a bang when I saw a completely unexpected Giant Swallowtail, my first sighting of one in Queens or any of the five New York City boroughs.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Red Admiral 1

Giant Swallowtail

Marcus Gray

Great Swamp NWR
Morris County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Orange Sulphur 20
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 31
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 8

Monarch

Black Swallowtail

Pearl Crescent

James L. Monroe

Penn State Univ., Beaver Campus
Beaver County, PA

2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
low 80’s and sunny

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 7
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Peck's Skipper common

Peck's Skipper

American Lady

Judy Molnar

Home AKA MOnarch Waystation #271
Newport News city, VA

Incidental sightings as looked out window to front or back yard. Male monarch has adopted my yard, seen 2 pm and 5:10 pm. Jockeying for nectar with a hummingbird on Tithonia and the bird is backing off. This one is a monarch in more than name only!

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1

Laura Wright

Princeton City Park
Christian County, KY

  • Checkered White 10
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Monarch 1

David H. Bartholomew

Bend
Deschutes County, OR

Went up to Oregon to see the Solar Eclipse. The air was smoky from several forest fires but a few butterflies were venturing out to the rabbitbrush and gathering at moist areas (watered lawns).

  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Ringlet 3
  • Small Wood-Nymph 1
  • Common Branded Skipper
  • Woodland Skipper common

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Hot, humid. Observed for 2 hrs in backyard

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 15
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1

Palamedes Swallowtail

Gulf Fritillary

Zebra Heliconian

Beth Polvino

yard along Mt Sidney Rd, Witmer
Lancaster County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Silver-spotted Skipper

Meadow Fritillary

Judy Molnar

Home AKA Monarch Waystation #271
Newport News city, VA

Incidental sightings while gardening and observing partial solar eclipse. 1 female monarch laying eggs and being courted [unsuccessfully] by 2 males

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Monarch 3

Monarch

Monarch

Allan R. Loudell

Black Kettle National Grassland
Roger Mills County, OK

1-hour walk. Several worn unidentified skippers,
and medium-sized butterflies flying too fast to ID.
Just before Solar Eclipse.
But the real attraction in this county: The Schinia Flower moths!

  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Dainty Sulphur Dozens
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Reakirt's Blue 5
  • Viceroy 2
  • Hackberry Emperor 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Common Sootywing 5
  • Fiery Skipper 3

Matthew Ceplo

Rockland Country Club
Rockland County, NY

Mostly sunny high 86, slight breeze. done with Tom Burns

  • Black Swallowtail 8
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 17
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Monarch 14
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 28
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Peck's Skipper 5
  • Broad-winged Skipper 6
  • Dun Skipper 5

Peck's Skipper

Eastern Comma

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Least Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

Alan Wells

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

Survey from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM; clear skies. air temperatures 70-80 F; dew point temperature 67-71; NE winds gusting from 2-5 mph. Weekly survey with Della Wells.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Appalachian Brown 2
  • Common Wood-Nymph 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Gray Hairstreak

Red-banded Hairstreak

Andrew Block

167 Old Army Rd., Scarsdale,
Westchester County, NY

The Giant Swallowtail was a fresh one. 1st. of the year and the 1st. since 2014. Glad to see they are recovering from the bad winter a few years ago.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Monarch 1

Mary L.

40.764415 -73.764496
Queens County, NY

feeding on butterfly bushes

  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1

Great Spangled Fritillary

Ron Smith

Joe's Creek Greenway
Pinellas County, FL

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 2
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • White Peacock 14
  • Monarch 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 9

Tropical Checkered-Skipper

White Checkered-Skipper

White Peacock

Zebra Heliconian

Virginia Bell

Shepherdsville
Bullitt County, KY

  • American Snout 1

Dave Hanson, David Bratley

Washburn
Bayfield County, WI

Sunny. Between noon and 2:30 pm. Most on Coneflowers or Tanzy. 12 male Sachems and 5 females and a female Fiery Skipper are all far north of their normal range but seem to find this area of Wisconsin on a regular basis compared to the other parts of the state.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 25
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Sachem 17
  • Dun Skipper 1

Sachem

Sachem

Sachem

Painted Lady

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Afternoon rain turned the butterflies off early.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • American Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Laura Wright

Devil's Den State Park
Washington County, AR

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Southern Pearly-eye 10
  • Carolina Satyr 5
  • Hoary Edge 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Michael Diederich

19 Chappaqua Muntain Road, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Zabulon Skipper 6

Scott Diemer

Fort Walton Beach
Okaloosa County, FL

First sighting in this area.

  • Zebra Heliconian 1

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Small Checkered-Skipper 2

Brett Badeaux

San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary
Orange County, CA

Sunny, breezy.

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak
  • Western Pygmy-Blue
  • Fatal Metalmark
  • Mourning Cloak
  • Painted Lady
  • Lorquin's Admiral
  • Monarch
  • Fiery Skipper

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak

Fatal Metalmark

Jim Wilkinson

Hopewell area Columbia
Howard County, MD

several Monarch chrysalids and one caterpillar getting ready to form a chrysalis

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Monarch 18
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Sachem 10
  • Dun Skipper 1

Monarch caterpillar

Red-banded Hairstreak

Jim Wilkinson

Elkhorn Garden Plots
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Little Glassywing 6
  • Sachem common
  • Zabulon Skipper 5
  • Dun Skipper 2

Common Buckeye

Fiery Skipper

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Observed in backyard for 3 hrs in am
Hot and humid.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 20
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Gulf Fritillary

Zabulon Skipper

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

A mostly cloudy, windy day, temp of 78 degrees; observed butterflies early afternoon. Saw a monarch cater on a butterfly weed plant in garden.

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 5

Silver-spotted Skipper

Common Checkered-Skipper

Monarch caterpillar

Common Checkered-Skipper

Glenn Koppel

Moraine State Park, Five Points Trail and Bike Trail from Cabins to Lakeview
Butler County, PA

6 Monarch Caterpillars also found.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 10
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 2

Julie Appleget

Chassahowitzka WMA
Hernando County, FL

Sorry for delay Computer issues

  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 14
  • Southern Dogface 8
  • Cloudless Sulphur abundant
  • Barred Yellow common
  • Little Yellow 8
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Ceraunus Blue common
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Carolina Satyr 5
  • Southern Cloudywing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Dotted Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Delaware Skipper 19
  • Dun Skipper 2

Ceraunus Blue

Dotted Skipper

Michael Diederich

19 Chappaqua Mountain Road, Chappaqua
Westchester County, NY

First Giant Swallowtail seen at this Location.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 6

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Observed 2 hrs in backyard 4-6 pm
Hot, humid conditions

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Long-tailed Skipper

Cloudless Sulphur

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Robert Bell

Wigwam Bay - Langdon West Unit
Arenac County, MI

10:45 to 12:45PM
Partly Cloudy, 67 degrees.
Looks like a great place to find butterflies. No trails. The roadside area was unproductive, but the fields to the south were very good.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Clouded Sulphur 7
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • American Copper 2
  • Bronze Copper 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Northern Crescent 12
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Common Ringlet 19
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 5

William D. Flack

Fiskdale Ma.
Worcester County, MA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

JoAnna N Clayton

Sawgrass Lake Park
Pinellas County, FL

With Ron Smith

  • Giant Swallowtail 6
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 11
  • Cloudless Sulphur 14
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 21
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 7
  • Phaon Crescent 4
  • White Peacock 65
  • Viceroy 8
  • Monarch 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • White Checkered-Skipper 6
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 20
  • Brazilian Skipper 2

Zebra Heliconian

Three-spotted Skipper

David Barrett

Central Park Ramble
New York County, NY

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Monarch 2

Joanne Langabee

Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, NE
Douglas County, NE

We were out for 4 hours. wind was around 13 mph and temperature average of 73.

  • Cabbage White 127
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 22
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 18
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Painted Lady 112
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Monarch 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 29
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 16
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Sachem 7
  • Dun Skipper 2

Andrew Block

167 Old Army Rd., Scarsdale,
Westchester County, NY

  • Dun Skipper 1

James Shelton

Powhite Park
Richmond city, VA

Warm Humid Still Air

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Tawny Emperor 1

Judy Molnar

Virginia Living Museum AKA Monarch Waystation #299
Newport News city, VA

Incidental sightings as I volunteered and later walked the grounds at the VLM. Female monarch was laying eggs on common milkweeds at Otter exhibit, Spicebush was flying in Children’s Learning Garden area, Tiger was nectaring on several plants being staged for the fall plant sale near the greenhouses off public view, RSPurple flying around the Conservation Garden.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Robinson Nature Center
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 5
  • Sachem common
  • Zabulon Skipper 10

Red-banded Hairstreak

Red-spotted Purple

Sleepy Orange

Cloudless Sulphur

john heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mournful Duskywing 1
  • Small Checkered-Skipper 1

Kathy Barylski

Finzel Swamp, and access road
Garrett County, MD

11:15-1:15; 70s and p-m cloudy.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 9-10
  • Aphrodite Fritillary 1-3
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Admiral 4
  • Viceroy 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 11
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 13
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 4

Common Wood-Nymph

Great Spangled Fritillary

Monarch

Painted Lady

Peck's Skipper

White M Hairstreak

Viceroy

Pearl Crescent

Aphrodite Fritillary

Julie Appleget

Lower Suwanee Wildlife Drive
Levy County, FL

Asclepias perennis was a favorite nectar source

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 9
  • Cloudless Sulphur abundant
  • Little Yellow 6
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Little Metalmark 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 11
  • Viceroy 6
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Queen 17
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Byssus Skipper 14
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1

Byssus Skipper

Common Buckeye

Donna Clendenning

Gainesville, Georgia
Hall County, GA

As a long-time north Georgia resident, I have never seen a Giant Swallow-Tail butterfly until today. It was attracted to multitude of zinnias which I grow each summer….August 24, 2017….amazing sight and more aware of human presence that typical swallow-tails I usually observe.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Chris Blazo

State Game Lands #235 Upper Horse Valley
Franklin County, PA

A great Leonard’s Skipper hotspot.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 40+
  • Clouded Sulphur 22
  • Orange Sulphur 50+
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • American Copper 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 16
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 8
  • American Snout 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 4
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 65+
  • Question Mark 1
  • Gray Comma 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 4
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 21
  • Northern Pearly-eye 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 9
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 70+
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 6
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Common Sootywing 2
  • Swarthy Skipper 5
  • Least Skipper 35+
  • Leonard's Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 4
  • Crossline Skipper 2

Swarthy Skipper

Leonard's Skipper

Red-spotted Purple

Pipevine Swallowtail

Common Wood-Nymph

Chris Blazo

Mt. Olivet Rd. lespedeza field
Franklin County, PA

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 6
  • Orange Sulphur 18
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 9
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 15
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 27
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 30+
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Common Sootywing 6
  • Least Skipper 8
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 3
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Beth Polvino

North Cape May ~ my yard NABA #1151 & Monarch Waystation #8318
Cape May County, NJ

New species #46 Sleepy Orange in my yard today. Cloudless Sulphur emerged here today.

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • Painted Lady 5
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Monarch 10
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Sachem common
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Sleepy Orange

Sleepy Orange

John Lampkin

Sun City Center Nature Trails & Environs
Hillsborough County, FL

90’s. With Joe Togger & Pat Knapp
Senna in my yard has 150+ eggs on it.
Southern Broken-Dash pic shows “broken dash” of male.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 11
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 3
  • Barred Yellow 13
  • Cassius Blue 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 53
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • White Peacock 8
  • Viceroy 9
  • Monarch 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 6
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1

Orange-barred Sulphur egg

Orange-barred Sulphur

Southern Broken-Dash

JoAnna N Clayton

62nd Ave NE Water Treatment Facility St. Petersburg
Pinellas County, FL

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 6
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 2
  • Statira Sulphur 2
  • Dainty Sulphur 4
  • Ceraunus Blue 8
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Phaon Crescent 6
  • White Peacock abundant
  • Monarch 1
  • Mangrove Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • White Checkered-Skipper abundant
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Southern Skipperling 6
  • Fiery Skipper abundant
  • Monk Skipper 1
  • Brazilian Skipper 10+

Brazilian Skipper

Ceraunus Blue

Cloudless Sulphur

Dainty Sulphur

Horace's Duskywing

Mangrove Skipper

Monk Skipper

White Checkered-Skipper

White Peacock

Southern Skipperling

Statira Sulphur

Statira Sulphur

Phaon Crescent

Monarch

Tropical Checkered-Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Ken Wilson

Pena Blanca Lake
Santa Cruz County, AZ

Sunny & hot!

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Southern Dogface
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Dainty Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Western Pygmy-Blue
  • Marine Blue
  • Ceraunus Blue
  • Reakirt's Blue
  • Arizona Metalmark
  • American Snout
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Bordered Patch
  • Tiny Checkerspot
  • Elada Checkerspot
  • American Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Satyr
  • Funereal Duskywing
  • White Checkered-Skipper
  • Common Sootywing
  • Orange Skipperling

Arizona Metalmark

Pipevine Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Red Satyr

Tal Pipkin

Saint Petersburg-Unincorporated
Pinellas County, FL

Private Residence

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 2
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 7
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • White Peacock 4
  • Monarch 6
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2

Fiery Skipper

Spicebush Swallowtail

Jeanette Klodzen

Secret Lake to Germania Pass (Little Cottonwood Canyon)
Salt Lake County, UT

Partly cloudy mid-60s

Walked 8-12

Elevation: 9400 - 10,500
The Parnassians, Frits, and Coppers were seen above 10,400 ft.

  • Phoebus Parnassian 15+
  • Ruddy Copper 4+
  • Blue Copper 2+
  • Arctic Blue 1
  • Callippe Fritillary
  • Mormon Fritillary 5+
  • Hoary Comma 1
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell 2
  • Painted Lady 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

Alan Wells

Edwin B. Forsythe NWR
Ocean County, NJ

Warm, sunny, clear, and calm. On refuge from 10:30 AM to 4:00 PM. Primarily a birding trip with Della Wells.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 10
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 15
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Monarch 8
  • Sachem 6

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

80’s for temps…observed 4 hrs in am…several Gulf Fritillaries flying in the 1 pm rain shower

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 20
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1

Sleepy Orange

Horace's Duskywing

Cloudless Sulphur

Andrew Block

Bronx River Pathway, Valhalla to Scarsdale,
Westchester County, NY

The Giant was a fresh individual and was seen just south of the Kensico Reservoir. My second of the year and second in the last week. It’s so great they’re back.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 7+
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Harvester 2+
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper common
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 1

Ron Smith

Possum Branch Preserve
Pinellas County, FL

under cloudy conditions

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Dainty Sulphur 4
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Phaon Crescent 3
  • White Peacock 46
  • Viceroy 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • White Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Sachem 1
  • Brazilian Skipper 5

Brazilian Skipper

Cassius Blue

Karlo Mirth

Forest Park
Queens County, NY

This is the second Giant Swallowtail I’ve seen in this park, a fresh individual compared to the worn one I saw on 8/20. Judging from second-hand reports of Giant sightings in Manhattan parks, looks like a very nice incursion is taking place in the New York City area.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

James Shelton

Wetlands - James River Park
Richmond city, VA

45 minutes Warm Humid Still Partially Cloudy.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Sachem 2

Amelia Grimm

My Backyard
Monroe County, FL

Bidens, Orange Geiger tree, Wild sage, Mahogany tree blooming! Brazilian Skipper on Geiger flowers

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 2
  • Martial Scrub-Hairstreak 2
  • Florida Duskywing 4
  • Brazilian Skipper 1

Tom Palmer

Lake Blue Scrub
Polk County, FL

Brief morning trip before rain began

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Barred Yellow 13
  • Ceraunus Blue 15
  • Gulf Fritillary 11
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • White Peacock 2
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Three-spotted Skipper 2

Edward Perry IV

Tosohatchee WMA
Orange County, FL

Partly cloudy as a low system moved over the region, but periods of sun and high humidity. The area is starting to bloom well with Carphephorus spp., Liatris, Purple Thistle, Pickerel Weed, Goldenrod, and many other fall species; we even saw one pine lily flower. EPerry & RWarner

  • Zebra Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Palamedes Swallowtail
  • Great Southern White
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Barred Yellow
  • Little Yellow
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Dainty Sulphur
  • Ceraunus Blue
  • Little Metalmark
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Phaon Crescent
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Common Buckeye
  • White Peacock
  • Viceroy
  • Carolina Satyr
  • Monarch
  • Queen
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Long-tailed Skipper
  • Dorantes Longtail
  • Northern Cloudywing
  • Horace's Duskywing
  • Zarucco Duskywing
  • White Checkered-Skipper
  • Clouded Skipper
  • Least Skipper
  • Southern Skipperling
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Whirlabout
  • Southern Broken-Dash
  • Sachem
  • Delaware Skipper
  • Palatka Skipper
  • Monk Skipper
  • Twin-spot Skipper
  • Ocola Skipper

Southern Skipperling

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Pearl Crescent

Phaon Crescent

Delaware Skipper

Least Skipper

Palamedes Swallowtail

Ocola Skipper

Southern Skipperling

Giant Swallowtail

Ocola Skipper

Palatka Skipper

Monk Skipper

Zarucco Duskywing

Monk Skipper

Whirlabout

Phaon Crescent

Phaon Crescent

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Northern Cloudywing

Ocola Skipper

Dainty Sulphur

Little Metalmark

Walter Wallenstein

Dinner Island Ranch WMA
Hendry County, FL

10:00am-2:00pm
Very cloudy, lots of heavy rain. Once the rain slowed down to a sprinkle, the butterflies became very active

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 7
  • Sleepy Orange 8
  • Dainty Sulphur 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 60
  • Pearl Crescent 42
  • White Peacock 110
  • Viceroy 5
  • Georgia Satyr 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 12
  • Long-tailed Skipper 3
  • Dorantes Longtail 6
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Three-spotted Skipper 3
  • Clouded Skipper 4
  • Fiery Skipper 15
  • Whirlabout 10
  • Sachem 4
  • Delaware Skipper 4
  • Brazilian Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 26

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Painted Lady
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Marcus Gray & Family

Middle Valley
Morris County, NJ

Ecstatic to see the Giant Swallowtail but unfortunately didn’t get a photo.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Peck's Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Least Skipper

Spicebush Swallowtail

Venice Kelly

bridge meadow between mud lake and caribou open space 2 miles north of nederland
Boulder County, CO

we were out from 11:30 am to1:30 pm. lots of sun for a change, with some clouds toward the end of the walk. it was 74F and breezy. pine whites have just begun to fly in the past couple of days. glad they were hungry enough to come down from the tops of the pine trees.

  • Pine White 6
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Queen Alexandra's Sulphur 14
  • Purplish Copper 5
  • Arctic Blue 2
  • Field Crescent 3
  • Painted Lady 20
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Small Wood-Nymph 11

Pine White

Pine White

Andrew Block

Rte. 9 just south of Rte. 308 Int., Rhinebeck.
Dutchess County, NY

Seen along the side of the road in the middle of town.

  • Meadow Fritillary 1

Andrew Block

Rte. 9 at Old Post Rd. S. int., Red Hook,
Dutchess County, NY

4th. of the year, all seen in the last week.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Jim Wilkinson

Elkhorn Garden Plots
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 7
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 6
  • Least Skipper 8
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Little Glassywing 10
  • Sachem common
  • Zabulon Skipper 15
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Ocola Skipper

Least Skipper

Common Buckeye

Ahmet Baytas

Avis Campbell Gardens, Montclair
Essex County, NJ

2:25-3:00. Sunny, 75 degrees.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Melissa Bruesehoff

Clinton Township
Macomb County, MI

At a nursery on a sunny breezy afternoon.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2

Monarch

Melissa Bruesehoff

Lake St. Claire Metropark
Macomb County, MI

Sunny, breezy and near 70 degrees.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 16
  • Monarch 2

Monarch

Jeanette Klodzen

Big Springs Hollow Trail
Utah County, UT

Sunny morning hike

  • Mustard White
  • Cabbage White
  • Purplish Copper 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Field Crescent
  • Mylitta Crescent
  • Hoary Comma
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Weidemeyer's Admiral
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Woodland Skipper abundant

Melanie Weiss

Long Key Natural Area
Broward County, FL

There had been thunderstorm activity and heavy rains for several days prior to my visit. Yet the butterfly activity seemed normal to what I typically see at this site. We found an Atala Hairstreak on the sidewalk laying on its side. I carried it back to the area with coontie plants. I found six Atala larvae on a young plant.

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 16
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Atala 1
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Julia Heliconian 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 15
  • White Peacock 11
  • Ruddy Daggerwing 2
  • Tawny Emperor 1
  • Queen 12
  • Horace's Duskywing 7
  • Fiery Skipper 4

Horace's Duskywing

Palamedes Swallowtail

Ruddy Daggerwing

Tawny Emperor

Cassius Blue

Fiery Skipper

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • White M Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Painted Lady
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Windy and cooler today ahead of a tropical system
Very surprised to see a good bit of butterflies out due to the wind

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 14
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Whirlabout 1

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Palamedes Swallowtail

Whirlabout

Gulf Fritillary

Daniel Jones

National Butterfly Center
Hidalgo County, TX

11 AM to 2:20 PM, hot with westerly wind

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 8
  • Ornythion Swallowtail 1
  • Southern Dogface 10
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 15
  • Statira Sulphur 5
  • Lyside Sulphur 80
  • Little Yellow 5
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 2
  • American Snout 50
  • Gulf Fritillary 8
  • Julia Heliconian 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Bordered Patch 3
  • Vesta Crescent 2
  • Phaon Crescent 8
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Mexican Bluewing 8
  • Dingy Purplewing 5
  • Many-banded Daggerwing 1
  • Tropical Leafwing 1
  • Goatweed Leafwing 1
  • Tawny Emperor 50
  • Queen 80
  • Soldier 5
  • Brown Longtail 2
  • Brown-banded Skipper 1
  • White-patched Skipper 3
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
  • Desert Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Laviana White-Skipper 5
  • Clouded Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 6
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 8
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 4

Statira Sulphur

Desert Checkered-Skipper

Ornythion Swallowtail

Dingy Purplewing

Brown-banded Skipper

Soldier

Many-banded Daggerwing

Statira Sulphur

Andy Birkey

Bike trails along I-29 just south of US 14
Brookings County, SD

8:30am to 10:30am. Sunny lower 70s. The trails ran along some wetlands on one side and alfalfa fields on the other. Painted Ladies were everywhere. Melissa Blue is a first for me.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur common
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Melissa Blue 3
  • Meadow Fritillary 8
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Painted Lady superabundant
  • Monarch common
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Sachem 6

Meadow Fritillary

Pearl Crescent

Melissa Blue

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest
Sarpy County, NE

I was out for 2 hours. Started out cloudy and then got sunny, around 82 degrees and wind at 8 mph.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 56
  • Orange Sulphur 25
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Little Yellow 4
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Dainty Sulphur 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 132
  • American Snout 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Painted Lady 46
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Least Skipper 10
  • Dun Skipper 1

Great Spangled Fritillary

Great Spangled Fritillary

American Snout

Gray Hairstreak

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Cloudless Sulphur

Gray Hairstreak

Little Yellow

Sleepy Orange

Orange Sulphur

Painted Lady

Rich Kelly, Lindy Nielsen

Clark Botanic Garden, Albertson
Nassau County, NY

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 20
  • American Lady 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 12
  • Sachem 3

Edward Perry IV

9700 South Highway A.1.A., Melbourne Beach, FL 32951
Brevard County, FL

Atala population connected to coonties planted by North Ranger Station at Sebastian Inlet State Park.

  • Atala 15

Atala

Denis C. Quinn

2 miles south of Kirkwood, PA 17536
Lancaster County, PA

Most seen in Chicken pasture in the belly or water retention area of contoured fields 11:00 to noon that have already been mowed this season. A very wet late summer period here, showing typical knee high vegatation in this area. Fiery Skipper is rare here.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 12
  • Clouded Sulphur 12
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 28
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Meadow Fritillary 14
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 29
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 38
  • Common Sootywing 2
  • Least Skipper 36
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Sachem 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Meadow Fritillary

Peck's Skipper

Common Sootywing

Fiery Skipper

Least Skipper

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Common Checkered-Skipper

Judy Molnar

Home AKA Monarch Waystation #271
Newport News city, VA

Male monarch nectared on Tithonia & Tropical Milkweed plus “cruised for chicks;” sulphur seen nectaring on Zinnia Zaharia Fire.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Monarch 1

Amelia Grimm

Bahia Honda State Park
Monroe County, FL

Sunny, hot and humid. Mimic seen and photographed nectaring in a Black Mangrove by the old bridge, from 5:25pm to 6:25pm. A first for Lyside Sulphur at this park.

  • Great Southern White 3
  • Large Orange Sulphur 3
  • Lyside Sulphur 2, around Lignum Vitae tree at entrance station
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Mimic 1
  • Hammock Skipper 1
  • Obscure Skipper 1

Mimic

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Misting rain this morning and heavier afternoon showers.
Several Gulf Fritillaries were out and about in the rain

  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Clouded Skipper 1

Clouded Skipper

john heyse

Martinez Marsh, Carquinez Shoreline, Mtz
Contra Costa County, CA

75F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Sandhill Skipper 1
  • Woodland Skipper 13

Monarch

Woodland Skipper

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • White M Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • American Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

Ellen Honeycutt

Canton
Cherokee County, GA

Northern pearly eye; only photo is wings open.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Silvery Checkerspot 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Northern Pearly-eye 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1

Northern Pearly-eye

Brendan Cramphorn

Syracuse University
Onondaga County, NY

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3

Alan Wells

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

From 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM; air temperature 72-79 F; heavy cloud cover; winds approximately 6 mph from SE. Weekly survey with Della Wells and Nancy Slowik.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • American Copper 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Appalachian Brown 12
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Jim Wilkinson

Columbia, Twin Knolls area
Howard County, MD

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1

Cloudless Sulphur

Raven Anthony Squire

Washington Park, Union City, off Palisade Avenue
Hudson County, NJ

This was my first sighting of a Giant Swallowtail on Buddleia. Another observer had reported to me seeing them on Ogden Avenue, in a rear yard overlooking the Palisades, Jersey City, New Jersey.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 3
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 8
  • Red Admiral 5
  • Monarch 4

Robert Bell

Tuttle Marsh
Iosco County, MI

12:00 to 1:30PM
Mostly sunny, 65-70 degrees

  • Mustard White 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Dorcas Copper 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Northern Crescent 6
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Viceroy 10
  • Monarch 4
  • Least Skipper 2

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Painted Lady
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

Joanne Langabee

Indian Cave State Park
Nemaha County, NE

Unfortunately it was cloudy most of the time that we were out, but we were still able to see quite a few butterflies. Temperatures in the high 70. We were out from around 11:30 - 2:00

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Orange Sulphur 21
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 19
  • Dainty Sulphur 9
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 97
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Painted Lady 33
  • Viceroy 2
  • Monarch 11
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 25
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Zabulon Skipper

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Little Yellow

Little Yellow

Viceroy

Little Yellow

Zabulon Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Cloudy and cooler all day…80 degrees

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1

Gulf Fritillary

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Zebra Heliconian

Ellen Honeycutt

Canton
Cherokee County, GA

First ever Red Admiral spotted here; also had a ‘Summer’ Spring Azure laying eggs on wingstem. Hairstreaks were very active in the morning.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 4
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Silvery Checkerspot 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1

'Summer' Spring Azure

Red Admiral

Allen Belden

Carolina Sandhills NWR
Chesterfield County, SC

Partly sunny, high in the mid 80s.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 7
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 18
  • Cloudless Sulphur 16
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 16
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Variegated Fritillary common
  • Common Buckeye 7
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Southern Pearly-eye 1
  • Carolina Satyr 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Southern Cloudywing 2
  • Zarucco Duskywing 2
  • Swarthy Skipper 4
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Dotted Skipper 1

Andrew Block

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

The hairstreak was pretty worn.

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Monarch 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • White M Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Common Wood-Nymph
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

John Heyse

suisun marsh
Solano County, CA

71 F
Yuma Skipper, second brood
The asters and goldenrod were just beginning to bloom.

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Sandhill Skipper 3
  • Yuma Skipper 2

Yuma Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Elkhorn Garden Plots
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Little Glassywing 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Eastern Comma

Fiery Skipper

Eastern Comma

Robert Bell

Huron National Forest -Silver Valley
Iosco County, MI

1:45 to 3:00PM
Partly sunny, 75 degrees
Pine/Oak habitat with a small stream
Coral Hairstreak was a surprise for this date.

  • Mustard White 3
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Coral Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • Aphrodite Fritillary 1
  • Northern Crescent 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 3
  • Leonard's Skipper 1

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Black Swallowtail came out of its chrysalis and flew away this afternoon. Was foggy early in the day, but by afternoon sun was shining - reaching 80 degrees. Monarch was seen later in afternoon

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Monarch 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Painted Lady
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Marcie Daniels

Summerville
Dorchester County, SC

Observed in backyard for approx 3 hrs in am

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 12
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1

Gulf Fritillary

Horace's Duskywing

Cloudless Sulphur

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

90F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • West Coast Lady 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Mournful Duskywing 1

Michael Drake

Springfield Township Middle School, Oreland
Montgomery County, PA

Sunny 80

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Sachem 45

Ahmet Baytas

Montclair
Essex County, NJ

1:45-2:45. Mostly cloudy, 78 degrees.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Sachem 11

Jim Wilkinson

Oxford Square, Elkridge
Howard County, MD

  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Sachem 24

Orange Sulphur

Cloudless Sulphur

Common Buckeye

Jeffrey Glassberg

Convent Station
Morris County, NJ

11:30 to 12:00

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 7
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 5
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 6