March 2021 Sightings

John and Nancy Crosby

Dagny Johnson State Park, North Key Largo.
Monroe County, FL

2 hour hike on Old Hwy 905 with plenty of shade through the hardwoods.

  • Julia Heliconian 12
  • Zebra Heliconian 10
  • Florida Purplewing 9

Zebra Heliconian

Florida Purplewing

Florida Purplewing

John and Nancy Crosby

Everglades Natl Park
Monroe County, FL

On February 26 hiked 3.5 hours from Gate 4 walking in water in several spots. Target was FL Leafwing. March 1st hiked 2 hours from Gate 10, no water on the previously flooded trail. March 2 walked similar trail w/o water then at Pineland Nature Trail found blooming croton. In 3 days we hiked 10 hours total targeting FL Leafwing.

  • Black Swallowtail 9
  • Large Orange Sulphur 7
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Zebra Heliconian 10
  • White Peacock 1
  • Monk Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 5

Gulf Fritillary

Twin-spot Skipper

Large Orange Sulphur

David H. Bartholomew

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

  • Mustard White 3
  • Spring Azure 22
  • California Tortoiseshell 12
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Propertius Duskywing 1

California Tortoiseshell

Propertius Duskywing

Tom Palmer

Marion Creek
Polk County, FL

  • Zebra Swallowtail 6
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Barred Yellow 4
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 7
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Sleepy Duskywing 4
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Monk Skipper 1

Black Swallowtail

Red Admiral

Monk Skipper

Linda Cooper

Dinner Island Ranch WMA
Hendry County, FL

10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Weather: 62°-71°, mostly cloudy all day. No butterflies seen until 11:30. Nectar: pickerelweed, Spanish needles, vicia spp, spermacoce spp. LCooper, BDeWitt, AHartman.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 5
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Julia Heliconian 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 22
  • Phaon Crescent 13
  • White Peacock 10
  • Viceroy 1
  • Carolina Satyr 14
  • Georgia Satyr 1
  • Monarch 6
  • Queen 14
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 12
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 16
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Viceroy

Zebra Swallowtail

Whirlabout

Dorantes Longtail

Hayhurst's Scallopwing

Hayhurst's Scallopwing

Georgia Satyr

Julia Heliconian

Queen

Monarch

Hayhurst's Scallopwing

Julia Heliconian

Whirlabout

Phaon Crescent

Roy Cohutta

Chickasawhatchee WMA, West Section, Large Area
Calhoun County, GA

61-67F, 4-6 MPH Northerly gusting to 9, Sunny, 12:04-16:23, Habitat: Swamps and roads VERY flooded right now, fields, upland pine woods. Covered a large area. Despite beautiful day, did not see many butterflies (and not for lack of effort). The butterflies were moving quite briskly and taking minerals (or on scat); none were taking nectar.

I have not recorded the 5 male Duskywings observed with Papilio II 6.5x21 bins. All had dark faces with fairly prominent FW hyaline spots (with cell-end dot). Had some light gray over-scaling. Could not see the pair of light dots on outer ventral HW.

The Zebra Swallowtail was flying in one shot and at a far distance in the other.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Sleepy Orange 4

Zebra Swallowtail

Zebra Swallowtail

David H. Bartholomew

Sunol-Ohlone Regional Park
Alameda County, CA

Along Alameda Creek, not many butterflies but nice to see what there was.

  • Sara Orangetip 12
  • Spring Azure 9
  • Silvery Blue 18
  • Acmon Blue 3
  • Mylitta Crescent 1
  • Propertius Duskywing 1

Spring Azure

Silvery Blue

Silvery Blue

Propertius Duskywing

Acmon Blue

John and Nancy Crosby

Tabby Oaks, Shellman Bluff, GA 31331
McIntosh County, GA

72 degrees and sunny. Our earliest sighting of Yawehus subspecies of Henry’s Elfin that uses our native Yapaon Holly for a host plant was today. Usually not seen until mid-March.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Henry's Elfin 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1

Cloudless Sulphur

Henry's Elfin

Carolina Satyr

Scott Anderson

Sleeping Turtles Preserve North
Sarasota County, FL

12noon-3pm, 75-75 degrees, sunny, calm

  • Great Southern White 1
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 8
  • Dainty Sulphur 77
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 8
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • Phaon Crescent 29
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 14
  • White Peacock 9
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 6
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 9
  • Whirlabout 9
  • Southern Broken-Dash 5
  • Eufala Skipper 1

Mark and Holly Salvato

St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park, Fellsmere
Indian River County, FL

  • Zebra Swallowtail 6
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 4
  • Great Southern White 6
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Common Buckeye abundant
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Sleepy Duskywing 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 2

Juvenal's Duskywing

Zarucco Duskywing

Juvenal's Duskywing

Juvenal's Duskywing

Sleepy Duskywing

Sleepy Duskywing

Sleepy Duskywing

Laurel Rhodes

Lost Maples State Natural Area in Vanderpool
Bandera County, TX

With Dusty Rhodes. Spent 2 hours hiking. Temp. 75F. Full sun, winds 15-20mph. The park had wind damage from the massive Arctic front hitting TX a few weeks ago. However, its plants did not appear to have sustained ice damage. A few trees were in early bloom.

  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Henry's Elfin 5
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1

Henry's Elfin

Roy Cohutta

Chickasawhatchee WMA, East Side, Large Area
Dougherty County, GA

67-71F, Partly-Mostly Cloudy, 5-7NE gust to 11, 12:20-15:30. Dirt roads, swamps, planted pines, managed pine habitats, fields.

Counted 13 jumpy Duskywings along 3+ miles of dirt road. Identified 2 as Juvenal’s.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Question Mark 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2

Black Swallowtail, Spicebush Swallowtail

Carolina Satyr

Ron Smith

Brooker Creek Preserve (Ridgemoor)
Pinellas County, FL

(11-45) Lots of sunshine. Only nectar sources I saw utilized were sneezeweed and pennyroyal.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 4
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Little Metalmark 7
  • Phaon Crescent 11
  • Pearl Crescent 10
  • White Peacock 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 1

Little Metalmark

Pearl Crescent

Phaon Crescent

Zebra Swallowtail

Little Metalmark

Little Metalmark

Tom Palmer

Crooked Lake Prairie
Polk County, FL

Unusual number; total is conservative

  • Great Southern White 129

Great Southern White

Great Southern White

Bart Jones

Everett Jones Lane north of Parsons
Decatur County, TN

  • Question Mark 3

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

T about 58F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1

Ken Wilson

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
San Diego County, CA

Mostly sunny, temp 78, calm winds.

  • Black Swallowtail
  • Becker's White
  • Spring White
  • Sara Orangetip
  • Bramble Hairstreak
  • Brown Elfin
  • Sonoran Blue
  • Silvery Blue

Bramble Hairstreak

Brown Elfin

Sara Orangetip

Sonoran Blue

Silvery Blue

Becker's White

Bart Jones

Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park
Shelby County, TN

First truly emergent butterflies of the year.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Question Mark 3

Question Mark

Orange Sulphur

Barbara Peck

Anderson River Park, Natural Area
Shasta County, CA

First of season pipevines. Almost all males.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 15
  • Cabbage White 1

Pipevine Swallowtail

John and Nancy Crosby

Tabby Oaks, Shellman Bluff, GA 31331
McIntosh County, GA

64 degrees, sunny.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2

Juvenal's Duskywing

Cloudless Sulphur

Red-banded Hairstreak

Roy Cohutta

Chickasawhatchee WMA, East Side, Large Area
Dougherty County, GA

This is an addendum to my NABA Sighting of 9 March 2021 at Chickasawhatchee WMA, Dougherty County, Georgia. I have been traveling and required additional time to verify the identification.

I observed and photographed this Duskywing from approximately 1:01:42 - 1:03:57 PM.

Smaller-sized Duskywing Male taking minerals from soil at Chickasawhatchee WMA. Row of distinct prominent dark “fingers” along postmedian area of FW. No cell-end dot. 4th or bottom dot of wrist bracelet is offset towards apex. All 4 wrist bracelet dots are small. (Only 5 white dots overall on each FW.) Cell is dark with “some pattern” evident. Beyond the cell is a light patch.

  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Dennis Vollmar

Three Lakes WMA
Osceola County, FL

9:30 to 3:30, mostly sunny, wind 10-15mph, 72 - 80 degrees

  • Zebra Swallowtail 27
  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Little Metalmark 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • White Peacock 1
  • Carolina Satyr 14
  • Northern Cloudywing 8
  • Confused Cloudywing 4
  • Sleepy Duskywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Sachem 1
  • Palmetto Skipper 1

Juvenal's Duskywing

Whirlabout

Pearl Crescent

Palmetto Skipper

Red-banded Hairstreak

Sleepy Duskywing

Phaon Crescent

Palamedes Swallowtail

Northern Cloudywing

Gulf Fritillary

Horace's Duskywing

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Little Metalmark

Barred Yellow

Confused Cloudywing

Carolina Satyr

Ceraunus Blue

Venice Kelly

deadman's gulch 1.5 miles west of lyons
Boulder County, CO

first sightings this year. had to drop down the mountain a few thousand feet to see any butterflies. it was 60F not much sun. still plenty of icy patches but some standing water in the barely flowing creek. big snow forecast for the mountains as well as the flat land starting tomorrow night.

  • Hoary Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Mourning Cloak

Mourning Cloak

Hoary Comma

Roy Cohutta

Chickasawhatchee WMA, East Side, Large Area
Dougherty County, GA

Nice warm spring day. Wind not a factor. Full sun.
Several Duskywing(s) seen but not fully identified.
Gray Hairstreak #1 missing a chunk of wing(s) (photo).
Gray Hairstreak #2 high in tree (photo).
Mated Queen pair photo.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Sleepy Orange 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Queen 5
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1

Gray Hairstreak

Queen

Gray Hairstreak

American Lady

Denis C. Quinn

1 mile west of US route 1 on Mason-Dixon MD/PA line.Nottingham,PA
Chester County, PA

Seen in woods along the path, where I usually see early season anglewing.

  • Eastern Comma 1

Allen Belden

James River Park: The Wetlands area
Richmond city, VA

Sunny, high 71. The first warn day of the year.

  • Eastern Comma 2

Eastern Comma

Linda Cooper

Goethe State Forest
Levy County, FL

Cow Creek Rd area. 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Weather: 60°-82°, clear all day, winds: 10-12 mph. Nectar: willow, lyre-leaf sage, thistle, yellow jessamine. LCooper, JAppleget, EPerry, DVollmar. Notes: although NABA doesn’t recognize Intricate Satyr as a separate species we noted 3 of them and 22 Carolina Satyrs for a total of 25. Photos are labeled.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 5
  • Zebra Swallowtail 5
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 7
  • Cloudless Sulphur 15
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Henry's Elfin 2
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Little Metalmark 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Texan Crescent 5
  • Phaon Crescent 25
  • Pearl Crescent 35
  • Red Admiral 2
  • White Peacock 1
  • Gemmed Satyr 3
  • Carolina Satyr 25
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 5
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1

Texan Crescent

Carolina Satyr

Queen

Pipevine Swallowtail

Texan Crescent

Carolina Satyr

Texan Crescent

White M Hairstreak

Palamedes Swallowtail

Juvenal's Duskywing

Spicebush Swallowtail

Gemmed Satyr

Juvenal's Duskywing

Carolina Satyr

Gemmed Satyr

Gemmed Satyr

Cloudless Sulphur

Carolina Satyr

Carolina Satyr

Linda Romine

William H. Harsha Lake
Clermont County, OH

Partly to mostly cloudy, upper 60’s to low 70’s. 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Third day in a row for commas at this location, first Mourning Cloak of the year. Nice to see, since their numbers have been low for the last two years.

  • Eastern Comma 4
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Denis C. Quinn

Downtown Havre de Grace
Harford County, MD

  • Cabbage White 1

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest
Sarpy County, NE

Saw the first butterflies of the year, Eastern Comma. It was around 70 degrees with wind gust up to 50 mph. Very surprised to see the butterflies with the high winds. All week we have been near or above 70 degrees.

  • Eastern Comma 2

Tom Fiore

Central Park, Manhattan
New York County, NY

with milder weather and sun

  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Mourning Cloak 3

Ron & Lori Smith

Torreya State Park
Liberty County, FL

(16-109) Sunny with temps reaching 73. Always a great day afield at Torreya. Lots of prescribed burning going on, but ALL trails are cleared of hurricane debris and open.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 7
  • Cloudless Sulphur 14
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 8
  • Henry's Elfin 7
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 33
  • American Snout 1
  • Pearl Crescent 13
  • Question Mark 2
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Southern Pearly-eye 1
  • Carolina Satyr 16
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 5
  • Fiery Skipper 1

American Snout

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Question Mark

Juvenal's Duskywing

Denis C. Quinn

1 mile west of US route 1 on Mason-Dixon MD/PA line.
Chester County, PA

First of the year and seen here on the edge of the garden

  • Cabbage White 1

Roy Cohutta

Altamaha WMA
McIntosh County, GA

This WMA is on the coast near Darien. Area is managed for waterfowl. Pleasantly warm day in the 70s and a little windy at times.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3

Cloudless Sulphur

Black Swallowtail

Roy Cohutta

Paulks Pasture WMA
Glynn County, GA

Pleasantly warm day, 70s. At times a little windy.

This WMA is near the coast. Large areas of planted pines, wet areas, etc.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 11
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 10
  • Carolina Satyr 3

Palamedes Swallowtail, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Edward Perry IV

Mason Terrace, Melbourne, FL, 32935
Brevard County, FL

One female laying eggs on Cassia/Senna alata. Yard butterfly.

  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1

Orange-barred Sulphur

Orange-barred Sulphur

Orange-barred Sulphur

Orange-barred Sulphur

Kathy Beza Richardson

Louisa County High School
Louisa County, VA

  • Mourning Cloak 1

Tom Fiore

Hook Mtn., north of Upper Nyack
Rockland County, NY

Late-day visit with milder temperatures and full sun

  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Mourning Cloak 5

David H. Bartholomew

San Bruno Mountain, State and County Park
San Mateo County, CA

With David Rawlinson, John Hibbard, Sarab Seth, and Tom Peterson. Reasonably nice weather but a bit breezy. Just a few butterflies seen, unfortunately no San Bruno Elfins, our hoped-for species.

22 Checkerspot caterpillars seen, probably all chalcedona. Also, 2 hilltopping Blues not stopping for ID.

  • Anise Swallowtail 3
  • Spring Azure 4
  • California Tortoiseshell 3
  • West Coast Lady 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 1

Variable Checkerspot caterpillar

West Coast Lady

Red Admiral

Anise Swallowtail

Ron Smith

Brooker Creek Preserve
Pinellas County, FL

w/ D.Fraser. Specifically Henry’s hunting.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 9
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Henry's Elfin 4
  • Monarch 1

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Dennis Vollmar

Winding Waters Natural Area
Palm Beach County, FL

12:45 to 2pm, Sunny, wind 15mph, 80 degrees

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 5
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 4

Little Yellow

Common Buckeye

Spicebush Swallowtail

Dennis Vollmar

John Dickinson State Park
Martin County, FL

9:45 - noon, wind 15mph, sunny, 73-80 degrees

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 2
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Palmetto Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 3

Northern Cloudywing

Pearl Crescent

Twin-spot Skipper

Whirlabout

Common Buckeye

Palmetto Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

first pipevine arrived at 55F and settled on victorian
box and later on flowering pear.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2

Linda Cooper

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
Okeechobee County, FL

10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Weather: 73°-83°, winds: 8-10 mph, clear to partly cloudy. Scouting for upcoming butterfly walks. Nectar: thistle, fleabane, lobelia, sneezeweed, tickseed, Spanish needles.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 5
  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Great Southern White 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Little Metalmark 12
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Phaon Crescent 15
  • Pearl Crescent 25
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 6
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Georgia Satyr 10
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Palmetto Skipper 3
  • Monk Skipper 1

Palamedes Swallowtail

Swarthy Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

Pearl Crescent

Little Metalmark

White Peacock

Palmetto Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Georgia Satyr

Monk Skipper

Little Metalmark

Scott Anderson

Carlton Reserve
Sarasota County, FL

1120am-145pm, 76-80 degrees, sunny, light wind

  • Great Southern White 1
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 17
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 19
  • Phaon Crescent 7
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 12
  • White Peacock 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 8
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Whirlabout 3

Northern Cloudywing

Roy Cohutta

Chickasawhatchee WMA, East Side
Dougherty County, GA

Pleasant spring day high 70s/low 80s.

Two (2) distant shots of the identical Wild Indigo Duskywing, including the ventral HW showing the rows of “well defined pale spots”. (Sequential shots 9 seconds apart on same flower.)

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 8
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Sleepy Orange 10
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 4
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Queen 5
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4

Gray Hairstreak

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Paul Teter

Rails To Trails
Lee County, GA

  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1

Juvenal's Duskywing

Linda Cooper

Three Lakes WMA
Osceola County, FL

Hwy. 60 Unit. 11:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Weather: 78°-83°, winds: 5-7 mph, clear all day. Nectar: thistle, fleabane, Spanish needles. Most activity between water crossing and Prairie Lakes Unit gate. Male Whirlabouts were trying to mate with anything available!

  • Zebra Swallowtail 4
  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 9
  • Great Southern White 12
  • Cloudless Sulphur 6
  • Little Metalmark 7
  • Phaon Crescent 10
  • Pearl Crescent 15
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 1
  • Georgia Satyr 7
  • Northern Cloudywing 7
  • Swarthy Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 30
  • Southern Broken-Dash 8
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Palmetto Skipper 10
  • Monk Skipper 5
  • Twin-spot Skipper 7

Palmetto Skipper, Whirlabout

Palamedes Swallowtail

Palmetto Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Monk Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Whirlabout, Palmetto Skipper, Fiery Skipper

Georgia Satyr

Twin-spot Skipper

Northern Cloudywing

Monk Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Bart Jones

Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park
Shelby County, TN

Not-so-great iphone pics.

  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Spring Azure 3
  • Question Mark 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Goatweed Leafwing 1

Spring Azure

Orange Sulphur

Allen Belden

Pocahontas State Park
Chesterfield County, VA

High in the mid 60s. Sunny. Azures not determined to subspecies. One azure with badly deformed wings appeared to have no difficulty flying. Four additional anglewings seen that could not be determined to species. This park is good for Henry’s Elfins, which were not seen and apparently were not yet flying.

  • Spring Azure 2
  • Question Mark 1

Spring Azure

Antonia S Krueger

St Petersburg
Pinellas County, FL

In a residential area

  • Orange-barred Sulphur 2
  • Cassius Blue 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Monarch 1

Paul Teter

Rails To Trails
Lee County, GA

  • Zarucco Duskywing 1

Zarucco Duskywing

Roy Cohutta

Kolomoki State Park
Early County, GA

1:00-4:06PM, 74-78, Overcast-Mostly Cloudy, 10-14MPH S.

The Leafwing showed very bright orange when it flew. It looked very worn and was wary.
The Pipevine flew continuously, dabbing at the leaves/ground in the woods.
Several Duskywings eluded ID.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Zebra Swallowtail 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 3
  • Goatweed Leafwing 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 3

Juvenal's Duskywing

Zebra Swallowtail

Pipevine Swallowtail

Goatweed Leafwing

Goatweed Leafwing

Ken Wilson

Escondido yard
San Diego County, CA

Mostly sunny, breezy, 58 degrees.

  • Cabbage White 1

Cabbage White

Roy Cohutta

Albany Nursery WMA
Dougherty County, GA

12:15-1:45PM, 75-79F, 13-23MPH SW (Windy), Cloudy. Nothoscordum bivalve in full glory along with many other spring flowers and blooms. Woods next to swamp. Open fields with mustard.

Could not ID some dark swallowtails - maybe Black or Pipevine (?)

  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • American Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2

Common Buckeye

Pearl Crescent

Red-banded Hairstreak

Red-banded Hairstreak

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Pearl Crescent

Linda Cooper

Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area
Osceola County, FL

Williams Road Unit. 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Weather: 65°-84°, winds 9-12, clear to partly cloudy all day. Looking for Yucca Giant-Skippers - no adults but 26 eggs ob Yucca filamentosa. Nectar: thistle, blackberry, blueberry, pennyroyal, sneezeweed, fleabane. LCooper, EPerry.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 17
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 27
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 12
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Little Metalmark 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Pearl Crescent 9
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • White Peacock 3
  • Carolina Satyr 16
  • Georgia Satyr 5
  • Northern Cloudywing 5
  • Confused Cloudywing 1
  • Sleepy Duskywing 3
  • Swarthy Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 25
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Palmetto Skipper 13
  • Twin-spot Skipper 2

Zebra Swallowtail

Cloudless Sulphur

Northern Cloudywing

Gulf Fritillary

Red-banded Hairstreak

Confused Cloudywing

Swarthy Skipper

Sleepy Duskywing

Northern Cloudywing

Carolina Satyr

Palmetto Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Palamedes Swallowtail

Sleepy Duskywing

Georgia Satyr

Gray Hairstreak

Pearl Crescent

Little Metalmark

Whirlabout

Common Buckeye

Roy Cohutta

Chickasawhatchee WMA
Dougherty County, GA

Photos include Cloudless Sulphur ovipositing with two sequential pics within same second show egg emergence.

12:30-5:00PM, Partly cloudy-overcast, 11-22MPH S

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 10
  • Sleepy Orange 9
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Question Mark 2
  • American Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 7
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 3
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2

Palamedes Swallowtail, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Spicebush Swallowtail

Juvenal's Duskywing

Cloudless Sulphur

Cloudless Sulphur

Roy Cohutta

Albany Nursery WMA
Dougherty County, GA

Photos include Cloudless Sulphur pair and Falcate Orangetip. 2:16-3:18PM, Clear-Mostly Sunny, 71-77F, 17-29MPH SW, Weedy fields next to wooded swamps.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Falcate Orangetip 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Zebra Swallowtail

Zebra Swallowtail

Falcate Orangetip

Falcate Orangetip

Cloudless Sulphur

Cabbage White

John and Nancy Crosby

Tabby Oaks, Shellman Bluff, GA 31331
McIntosh County, GA

73 degrees, little sun. Highest 1 day count for Henry’s Elfin, Yawehus subspecies using Yapon Holly for host. Only nectar plants were thistle, Carolina Jasamine & Briars are just beginning to bloom.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 6
  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 11
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Henry's Elfin 18
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Carolina Satyr 20
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 6
  • Clouded Skipper 1

Zebra Swallowtail

Red Admiral

Juvenal's Duskywing

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Carolina Satyr

Clouded Skipper

Juvenal's Duskywing

Barred Yellow

Cloudless Sulphur

Ken Wilson

San Clemente area
Orange County, CA

Sunny, 68 degrees,light winds became gusty in the afternoon. Searched 12 PM - 4 PM.

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail
  • Checkered White
  • Sara Orangetip
  • Great Purple Hairstreak
  • Bramble Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Silvery Blue
  • Mormon Metalmark
  • American Lady
  • Common Ringlet
  • Mournful Duskywing

Mournful Duskywing

Great Purple Hairstreak

Gray Hairstreak

Checkered White

Bramble Hairstreak

John and Nancy Crosby

Tabby Oaks, Shellman Bluff, GA 31331
McIntosh County, GA

Sunny & 74 degrees. March 18th we had 18 Henry’s Elfin 1st time ever to have more than 12! Today we had 49! Our hike out of the woods was through the cane in the woods targeting Pearly-eyes then along the marsh checking Red Cedar Trees for Juniper Hairstreaks but instead we saw 47, 48 & 49th Henry’s Elfin!

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 6
  • Cloudless Sulphur 7
  • Henry's Elfin 49
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 11
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Gemmed Satyr 1
  • Carolina Satyr 30
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 14
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1

Gemmed Satyr

Palamedes Swallowtail

Red-banded Hairstreak

Zarucco Duskywing

Juvenal's Duskywing

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Carolina Satyr

Cloudless Sulphur

Roy Cohutta

Albany Nursery WMA
Dougherty County, GA

Same location as yesterday, but so different.
Cloudless and Sleepy were “common” yesterday, but not a single one flying this chilly windy day.
Seemingly the only butterflies were those startled from their hidden perches. A couple of the duskywings did not allow ID.
59-64F, 10-13MPH+ NW Cold Wind, Cloudy.

  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1

Zarucco Duskywing

Pearl Crescent

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest
Sarpy County, NE

After 5 days of cloudy, rainy weather finally had some sun and saw an eastern comma basking in the sun. It was right at 50 degrees.

  • Eastern Comma 1

Walter Wallenstein

Big Cypress National Preserve
Collier County, FL

Fire Prairie Trail & Turner River Road. Cloudy start, didn’t see a butterfly till 10:15. Main nectar source was Bull Thistle, but they were well past their prime. With B.Dewitt & K.& P Spencer

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 6
  • Great Southern White 4
  • Cassius Blue 3
  • Little Metalmark 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 12
  • Zebra Heliconian 7
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 10
  • Viceroy 4
  • Georgia Satyr 2
  • Queen 8
  • Mangrove Skipper 2
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 6
  • Delaware Skipper 6
  • Palatka Skipper 27
  • Berry's Skipper 1
  • Monk Skipper 9
  • Twin-spot Skipper 32

Great Southern White

Southern Broken-Dash

Clouded Skipper

Palamedes Swallowtail

Palatka Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

Delaware Skipper

Viceroy

Berry's Skipper

Twin-spot Skipper

Mangrove Skipper

Linda Romine

William H. Harsha Lake
Clermont County, OH

Sunny, upper 50’s, 1:30-3:30, calm to light breeze.

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • Eastern Comma 4
  • Mourning Cloak 2

Kathy Beza Richardson

Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens
Henrico County, VA

Sunny, mid- 50’s, light breeze

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Question Mark 1

Question Mark

John & Nancy Crosby & Robert Edmunc

Tabby Oaks, Shellman Bluff, GA 31331
McIntosh County, GA

What a difference a day makes! Temp dropped nearly 20 degrees to high of 56 with some wind chill & partly cloudy. March 18 we had 18 Henry’s Elfin, March 19th we saw 49 & today only 3. All were soaking up the suns rays either on Wax Myrtle shrubs or on the ground.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Henry's Elfin 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 14
  • Carolina Satyr 5
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Red-banded Hairstreak

Red-banded Hairstreak

Zebra Swallowtail

Carolina Satyr

Jeff Pavlik

Dansville SGA
Ingham County, MI

First butterflies of 2021 for me.

  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Mourning Cloak 8

Mourning Cloak

Bart Jones

Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park
Shelby County, TN

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Falcate Orangetip 4
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Spring Azure 3
  • Question Mark 1

Southern Dogface

Southern Dogface

Orange Sulphur

Spring Azure

Spring Azure

Mike Reese

Avoca WA
Iowa County, WI

My first butterflies of the year!

  • Mourning Cloak 4

Mourning Cloak

Denis C. Quinn

1 mile west of US route 1 on Mason-Dixon, MD/PA line.Nottingham,PA
Chester County, PA

Three Commas and nothing else today with all seen in the woods.

  • Eastern Comma 3

Eastern Comma

Eastern Comma

Robert Bell

Highbanks trail
Iosco County, MI

60 degrees and sunny.
My first butterflies of the year.
Very early for northern Michigan. Patches of snow still in the woods.

  • Eastern Comma 3

William D. Flack

Nymphalis Woods.
Plymouth County, MA

Overwintering Brood has just awakened.

  • Mourning Cloak 1

Mourning Cloak

Roy Cohutta

Chickasawhatchee WMA
Dougherty County, GA

57-63F, Partly Cloudy, 13-26MPH NE, 12:30-2:20PM

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 3
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Spicebush Swallowtail

Pipevine Swallowtail

Michael Diederich

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

1:14 PM - First Butterfly for 2021.

  • Mourning Cloak 1

Linda Cooper

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
Okeechobee County, FL

Two butterfly walks for Friends of Kissimmee Prairie. 10:30-12:30 weather - 65°-70°, north winds 8-10 mph, sun 70%. 1:30-3:30 weather - 70°, north winds 10-15 mph, sun 10%. Ten participants in each group. Covered only Kilpatrick Hammock and areas around visitors center. 1 Monarch cat on tropical milkweed; 1 Spicebush Swallowtail cat on Red Bay; White Peacock laying eggs on Bacopa. Nectar: thistle, pickerelweed, daisy fleabane

  • Zebra Swallowtail 4
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 5
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Little Metalmark 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Phaon Crescent 18
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Question Mark 1
  • White Peacock 5
  • Carolina Satyr 18
  • Georgia Satyr 6
  • Queen 2
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 10
  • Southern Broken-Dash 7
  • Palmetto Skipper 1
  • Palatka Skipper 2
  • Monk Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 3

Palamedes Swallowtail

Monk Skipper

Palatka Skipper

Little Metalmark

Jan Hansen

Sandhills Community College Horticultural Gardens
Moore County, NC

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Henry's Elfin 6
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • American Snout 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Southern Cloudywing 1

Southern Cloudywing

White M Hairstreak

Henry's Elfin

Matt Orsie

Green Ridge State Forest
Allegany County, MD

First outing of the year.
Temps: Mid50s - Mid 60’s

  • Cabbage White 3
  • Falcate Orangetip 1
  • Eastern Comma 3

Jean Evoy

Livingston Loop adjacent to orange groves
DeSoto County, FL

Late afternoon, temperature in the low 70s
There was abundant Spanish needles and Virginia peppergrass growing along the roadside and between the rows of orange trees.

  • Great Southern White superabundant
  • Dainty Sulphur common
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • White Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Fiery Skipper 3

White Checkered-Skipper

Dainty Sulphur

Great Southern White

Edward Perry IV

Mason Terrace, Melbourne, FL, 32935
Brevard County, FL

Yard butterflies. The Fulvous Hairstreaks were utilizing blooming avocado, along with the honeybees!

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Fulvous Hairstreak 3
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Monarch 1

Fulvous Hairstreak

Roy Cohutta

Doerun Pitcherplant Bog WMA
Colquitt County, GA

Well managed bog ecosystem with upland pine areas. Contains very rare plants and insects well above my pay-grade.
I would not consider this a great Spring butterfly destination, but I wanted to check it out, as I have only been here previously later in the season. The area I (mostly) walked was burned well last May. There were a couple duskywings which I could not get close enough to ID.
12:00-2:30PM. 64-71F, Partly Cloudy, 12-24MPH NE.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Carolina Satyr 2

Cloudless Sulphur

Carolina Satyr

Alan Wells

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

Clear, sunny, very light breeze; air temperature about 55 F. First butterflies of the season!

  • Mourning Cloak 2

Mourning Cloak

Allen Belden

James River Park: Reedy Creek area
Richmond city, VA

Sunny, high in the mid 60s. Azures not determined to subspecies.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Spring Azure 2
  • American Snout 1
  • Eastern Comma 2

Jim Wilkinson

Columbia Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

  • Cabbage White 1

Cabbage White

Paul Teter

Rails to Trails
Lee County, GA

  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1

Juvenal's Duskywing

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Paul Teter

Pirates Cove
Lee County, GA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

Sarab Seth

Shafter Bridge, Lagunitas
Marin County, CA

Marin Elfin (Callophrys mossii marinensis)

Weather was sunny and 62 degrees. Photographed 5 different individuals, at 2 different spots. Both spots had a large patch of scattered sedum in good sunlight.

  • Moss' Elfin 5

Moss' Elfin

Denis C. Quinn

1 mile west of US route 1 on Mason-Dixon MD/PA line.Nottingham,PA
Chester County, PA

All three seen on my property as I drove out my lane, however a thirty-plus mile trip, each way to Delaware and back yielded no other sightings.

  • Cabbage White 3

David H. Bartholomew

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

Chilly and gusty, but some butterflies were out and about in sheltered areas.

  • Mustard White 9
  • Brown Elfin 1
  • Spring Azure 8
  • California Tortoiseshell 5
  • Mourning Cloak 3
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Propertius Duskywing 1
  • Mournful Duskywing 6
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Common Checkered-Skipper

Propertius Duskywing

Mournful Duskywing

Brown Elfin

Ron Smith

Brooker Creek Preserve
Pinellas County, FL

(13-44) Spring is here! First Twin-spots and Delawares of the year.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 6
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Little Metalmark 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Phaon Crescent 9
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • White Peacock 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Delaware Skipper 4
  • Twin-spot Skipper 4

Little Metalmark

Palamedes Swallowtail

Twin-spot Skipper

Delaware Skipper

Roy Cohutta

Chickasawhatchee WMA
Dougherty County, GA

69-76F, Partly-Mostly Cloudy, 7-13MPH SE, 12:30-3:00PM
When clouds covered the sun, it would feel a little cool, and the butterflies would disappear for a while. The count on the Queen butterflies would have been higher but I spent little time in the field where I usually see them.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Carolina Satyr 6
  • Queen 2

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Pearl Crescent

American Lady

Jim Wilkinson

Jones Falls at Falls Road
Baltimore County, MD

very dark blue, almost purple above

  • Spring Azure 1

Dale Bonk

Floracliff Nature Sanctuary
Franklin County, KY

  • White M Hairstreak 1

White M Hairstreak

Karen Michul (NABA-Central KY)

Floracliff Nature Sanctuary, Lexington, KY
Fayette County, KY

Spotted one White M Hairstreak on a early blooming Spicebush at Floracliff Nature Sanctuary. Not uncommon to our area, but very elusive. Not many noted over the years.

  • White M Hairstreak 1

White M Hairstreak

White M Hairstreak

White M Hairstreak

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

first Painted Lady migrant - they typically arrive about
24 March - today.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Painted Lady 1

John & Nancy Crosby, Mary Ann & Sam Teal

Tabby Oaks, Shellman Bluff, GA 31331
McIntosh County, GA

75 degrees, sunny. We had rain over the weekend & briar blooms were really fresh. We had Sweadner’s Juniper Hairstreaks & Yawehus subspecies of Henry’s Elfin using Yapon Holly here on GA’s Coast.

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 6
  • Cloudless Sulphur 10
  • Henry's Elfin 42
  • Juniper Hairstreak 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 12
  • Southern Pearly-eye 3
  • Gemmed Satyr 3
  • Carolina Satyr 20
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 7
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Henry's Elfin

Southern Pearly-eye

Carolina Satyr

Dun Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Palamedes Swallowtail

Red-banded Hairstreak

Gemmed Satyr

Juniper Hairstreak

Henry's Elfin

Roy Cohutta

Albany Nursery WMA
Dougherty County, GA

Mostly cloudy and light rain (for an hour). Used the rain cover for the camera. 74-79F, 7-12MPH SW. 1:15-2:44PM. Swamp and field habitat. I am fairly sure this was my earliest Red Admiral ever.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Carolina Satyr 12

Red Admiral

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Linda Cooper

Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area
Osceola County, FL

Williams Road Unit. 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 75°-91°, winds 10-15 mph, partly cloudy all day. Continuing to search for Yucca Giant-Skippers.Still no adults but 2 emerging caterpillars and two in leaf shelters or just starting to weave leaf shelters close to the tip of yuccas. Nectar: thistle, daisy fleabane, blackberry. Early flight date for Arogos Skipper. LCooper, EPerry

  • Zebra Swallowtail 8
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 15
  • Checkered White 1
  • Great Southern White 6
  • Cloudless Sulphur 6
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Little Yellow 2
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Little Metalmark 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Pearl Crescent 50
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 2
  • Carolina Satyr 11
  • Georgia Satyr 20
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 10
  • Whirlabout 22
  • Southern Broken-Dash 6
  • Arogos Skipper 1
  • Palmetto Skipper 16
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 3

Gulf Fritillary

Horace's Duskywing

Tawny-edged Skipper

Tawny-edged Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Barred Yellow

Georgia Satyr

Pearl Crescent

Palmetto Skipper

Gray Hairstreak

Arogos Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

Tawny-edged Skipper

Common Buckeye

Whirlabout

Great Southern White

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Palamedes Swallowtail

Southern Broken-Dash

Tom Fiore

Central Park, Manhattan
New York County, NY

first of the year for me; also seen in other parts of N.Y. City by other butterfly observers, on same day.

  • Cabbage White 4

Barbara Peck

Battlecreek, near the gate where driving access ends
Tehama County, CA

First of the season Sara Orangetip for me.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Sara Orangetip 1

John and Nancy Crosby

Townsend WMA, McIntosh County, GA
McIntosh County, GA

82 degrees, sunny. We covered a large area but had few butterflies overall. Sparkleberry is beginning to bloom, we found plum trees in bloom and briar blooms too.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 12
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 8
  • Southern Dogface 10
  • Cloudless Sulphur 15
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Pearl Crescent 25
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Carolina Satyr 10
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 18

Southern Dogface

Juvenal's Duskywing

Northern Cloudywing

Pearl Crescent

Cloudless Sulphur

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Roy Cohutta

Chickasawhatchee WMA, West Side
Calhoun County, GA

Toured habitat of upland open pine woods and hardwood swamps and the transitions areas between. Area had been recently burned.

Sprouts were coming up from the charred ground, as seen in the photo of the Cloudless Sulphur ovipositing on a tender young sprout. Nearby was a swarm of Eastern Tailed-Blue, probably numbering in excess of 100 individuals.

I observed the Leafwing with binoculars, but was not able to photograph this very wary individual. An hour was spent on this fruitless stalking effort.

The several Duskywings not reported looked like Juvenal’s or Horace’s (seen with aid of binoculars).

75-84F, Partly Cloudy, 14-33MPH S (Very windy all day), 12:24-3:00PM

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 5
  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 6
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue abundant
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Goatweed Leafwing 1
  • Carolina Satyr 7

Cloudless Sulphur

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Marcus Gray

Huguenot
Orange County, NY

FOY Butterfly!

  • Cabbage White 1

James L. Monroe

along Ohio River near town of Beaver
Beaver County, PA

FOY for me in southwest PA
IDed as Spring Azure based on time of year. Could not get a photo to examine.
Low 70’s and overcast.

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Spring Azure 2

Scott Anderson

Walton Ranch Preserve
Sarasota County, FL

1125am-135pm, 83-89 degrees, sunny, calm. After finding only one Least Skipper in the county during all of 2020, I found 8 today.

  • Great Southern White 5
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Little Metalmark 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 8
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • Phaon Crescent 9
  • White Peacock 4
  • Least Skipper 8
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 6
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 4

Southern Broken-Dash

Southern Skipperling

Least Skipper

White Peacock

Least Skipper

Little Metalmark

Least Skipper

Little Metalmark

Delaware Skipper

Delaware Skipper

Barbara Peck

Anderson River Park
Shasta County, CA

Male and female Pipevine Swallowtails were flying throughout the park. One male that was basking on a California pipevine may have been waiting for a female who was flying nearby. 70 counted during a 2 1/2 stroll. The only other butterfly I saw was a Cabbage White.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 70
  • Cabbage White 1

Pipevine Swallowtail

Pipevine Swallowtail

Jim Wilkinson

High Tech Drive, Elkridge
Howard County, MD

  • Spring Azure 1

Spring Azure

Spring Azure

Ken Wilson

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
San Diego County, CA

Sunny, upper 60s, windy.

  • Pale Swallowtail
  • Spring White
  • Pearly Marble
  • Sara Orangetip
  • Bramble Hairstreak
  • Sonoran Blue
  • California Patch
  • Sleepy Duskywing
  • Propertius Duskywing

Variable Checkerspot

Sleepy Duskywing

Propertius Duskywing

California Patch

Bramble Hairstreak

Walter Wallenstein

Everglades National Park
Miami-Dade County, FL

4.5 miles walked with a crew of 13 butterfliers in the pinelands looking for Florida Leafwings. None sighted this time, but we did see some other leps. With A.Grimm, L.Williams, B.Dewitt, M.Rose, L.Evans, S. Southerland, L.Cuni, M.Jackson, B.Jackson, A.Roda, K.Spencer, & P.Strump
9:00-2:00

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 22
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 16
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 20
  • Julia Heliconian 1
  • Georgia Satyr 4
  • Monk Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 8

Palamedes Swallowtail

Twin-spot Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

Monk Skipper

Large Orange Sulphur

Jan Hansen

Bynum Beach Road
Chatham County, NC

Walked the road on the south side of the Haw River. Chilly, but sunny with temp of 50-55F

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Falcate Orangetip 11
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1

Falcate Orangetip

Denis C. Quinn

1 mile west of US route 1 on Mason-Dixon MD/PA line.Nottingham,PA
Chester County, PA

At home in the back field, that is only winter weeds of; Roadside Penny-cress, Corn Speedwell, or Hairy Bittercress I had four Cabbage Whites with one flying into the open door of my small 10X12 greenhouse.
No other butterflies were seen today.

  • Cabbage White 4

Cabbage White

Tom Fiore

Hook Mt. - north of Upper Nyack
Rockland County, NY

a possible early date record in NY state; seen by 4 others in addition to me; not able to obtain a photo as this was only seen in low, fluttering flight for a few moments at the summit. Also seen were some Mourning Cloaks, but no other leps, for the day on the mountain, & the native plants are not quite in bloom yet, and seemingly none of the native rock cresses which are host plants for Falcate Orangetips; will be out in April. The single Falcate was a male, as is usual for the first to be seen around here. A warm day, following a record high temp. of about 80 (F.) the day before.

  • Falcate Orangetip 1

John Lampkin

Fort DeSoto Park
Pinellas County, FL

With the Florida Native Plant Society, Suncoast Chapter. Special thanks to Valerie Giles for the successful caterpillar search! 9-12; mid-upper 70’s; 2.7 mi (one trail)
Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak larvae munch on the flowers of Sleepy Morning. Two color forms were found.

  • Great Southern White 1
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Pygmy-Blue 17
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Mangrove Skipper 14
  • White Checkered-Skipper
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper
  • Obscure Skipper 2

Eastern Pygmy-Blue

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak caterpillar

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak caterpillar

Mangrove Skipper

Michael Diederich

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

1:10 PM - Feeding on large Andromeda bush.

  • Mourning Cloak 2

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

71F One was large - about 4 inches;
another was very small - barely larger than a cabbage white.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 6

Jeff Gesell

Lower Nazareth Township
Northampton County, PA

After venturing on a four-plus mile hike through wild terrain to find my lone FOY butterfly (see other post), I stumble upon two more across the road from my house in a featureless grass yard…without any effort…

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Jeff Gesell

Jacobsburg State Park
Northampton County, PA

First of the year…took a little longer than expected with a couple of previous outings with zero sightings!

  • Cabbage White 1

Dale Bonk

Aucilla WMA West Woods
Jefferson County, FL

  • Banded Hairstreak 1
  • Little Wood-Satyr 1

Little Wood-Satyr

Ron & Lori Smith

San Felsaco Hammock Preserve SP
Alachua County, FL

(20-103) Partly sunny. Had some fun. Yucca’s were all fresh.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Zebra Swallowtail 8
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 9
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Question Mark 3
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 22
  • Carolina Satyr 19
  • Little Wood-Satyr 13
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Southern Cloudywing 2
  • Northern Cloudywing 2
  • Confused Cloudywing 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 4
  • Yucca Giant-Skipper 7

Yucca Giant-Skipper

Pipevine Swallowtail

Zabulon Skipper

Little Wood-Satyr

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest
Sarpy County, NE

Finally sunny and mid 60’s. Only seeing a butterfly every so often yet. Hasn’t warmed up enough

  • Eastern Comma 1

Eastern Comma

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

Pipevines now appearing in largish numbers, about 2 weeks
late.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 8
  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Painted Lady 1

John Kern

San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park
Alachua County, FL

Start weather: 70 degrees and clear
End Weather: 87 degrees, mostly sunny
Start Time: 9:45 a.m.
End Time: 1:30 p.m.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Zebra Swallowtail 8
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • American Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Goatweed Leafwing 1
  • Carolina Satyr 20
  • Little Wood-Satyr 15
  • Monarch 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 6
  • Confused Cloudywing 2
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Yucca Giant-Skipper 2

American Lady

Phaon Crescent

Yucca Giant-Skipper

Little Wood-Satyr

Confused Cloudywing

Goatweed Leafwing

Common Buckeye

Roy Cohutta

Cohutta Mountains
Gilmer County, GA

Pretty afternoon in the North Georgia Mountains.
Many blooms / nectar sources.
For pics, just posting a few of the Elfin shots.
Not counting/posting any of the Azures.
All Duskywings appeared to be Juvenal’s. (Observed ventral on several individuals.)
2:00-4:30pm, 62-66F, Full Sun, 4-6MPH S, N. GA Mountains, Chattahoochee National Forest

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Brown Elfin 5
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 10

Brown Elfin

Brown Elfin

Brown Elfin

Brown Elfin

Brown Elfin

Tom Palmer

Huckleberry Island
Polk County, FL

  • Zebra Swallowtail 4
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 2
  • Carolina Satyr 4
  • Little Wood-Satyr 3
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 3
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Monk Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Little Wood-Satyr

Little Wood-Satyr

Walter Wallenstein

John Stretch Park
Palm Beach County, FL

Only at site from 2:00-3:30. Hordes of dragonflies around, keeping the butterflies limited in their activities!

  • Great Southern White 15
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 21
  • Julia Heliconian 9
  • Zebra Heliconian 38
  • Cuban Crescent 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • White Peacock 7
  • Monarch 4
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Ocola Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

Julia Heliconian

Cuban Crescent

Cuban Crescent

Orange-barred Sulphur

Tropical Checkered-Skipper

Jan Hansen

Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area
Orange County, NC

Clear and cool after several days of rain. Temp 55-60F.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8
  • Falcate Orangetip 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Brown Elfin 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Snout 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 7

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Juvenal's Duskywing

Brown Elfin

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 6
  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Spring Azure 3
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 1

Tina M Ramsey

Indian Mound
Stewart County, TN

  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1

Juvenal's Duskywing

Karen Canon

Embudito Canyon
Bernalillo County, NM

NE of Albuquerque at about 6100 feet. Morning; Temps in 40’s. No flowers blooming in area.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Common Sootywing 2

Scott Anderson

Scherer Thaxton
Sarasota County, FL

With John and Jane Lampkin, Veronica Battles. 950am-1230pm, 77-86 degrees, sunny, light wind

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 7
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 6
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Little Metalmark 9
  • Gulf Fritillary 10
  • Phaon Crescent 18
  • Pearl Crescent 11
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 16
  • Viceroy 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 18

Red-banded Hairstreak

Little Metalmark

Twin-spot Skipper

John and Nancy Crosby

Tabby Oaks, Shellman Bluff, GA 31331
McIntosh County, GA

70 degrees,overcast until we were leaving when we saw the Henry’s Elfin.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 9
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 8
  • Henry's Elfin 2
  • Southern Pearly-eye 4
  • Gemmed Satyr 4
  • Carolina Satyr common
  • Little Wood-Satyr 8
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 5
  • Clouded Skipper 1

Spicebush Swallowtail

Southern Pearly-eye

Long-tailed Skipper

Juvenal's Duskywing

Clouded Skipper

Northern Cloudywing

Gemmed Satyr

Little Wood-Satyr

Little Wood-Satyr

Carolina Satyr

Palamedes Swallowtail

David H. Bartholomew

Long Ridge Open Space Preserve
San Mateo County, CA

Very few butterflies, other than Whites. Tortoiseshells were all very worn. Orange Sulphur was first of season for me.

  • Mustard White 16
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Acmon Blue 1
  • Mylitta Crescent 2
  • California Tortoiseshell 5

Mustard White

Mustard White

Orange Sulphur

Mylitta Crescent

Spring Azure

California Tortoiseshell

Jan Hansen

Occoneechee Mountain SNA
Orange County, NC

I spent about 45 minutes checking a patch of creeping Charlie near the ranger’s residence. Cool and sunny with temp of 65F.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1

Eastern Pine Elfin

Penelope Stritch

Edward Drive
Berkeley County, WV

I see other people from New York & Pennsylvania talking about their FOY sightings. My FOY Cabbage White was on 3-21, and Spring Azure on 3-27. But I didn’t get photos until today.

  • Cabbage White 8
  • Spring Azure 2

Spring Azure

Cabbage White

Alan Wells

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

Sunny cloudless day, air temperatures 44-55 F; sustained winds 3-5 mph with gusts to 8-11 mph.

  • Mourning Cloak 1

Andrew Block

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

1st. of butterfly of the year.

  • Cabbage White 1

John J. Collins

Lord Stirling Park
Somerset County, NJ

  • Spring Azure 1

John and Nancy Crosby

Tabby Oaks, Shellman Bluff, GA 31331
McIntosh County, GA

Intermiddent sun & clouds, 79 degrees midday. Henry’s Elfin was Yawehus subspecies which uses Yapon. We photographed Henry’s Elfin nectaring on Yapon Holly. Carolina Jasamine, briars & Thistle were the primary nectar sources.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 14
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 9
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 11
  • Cloudless Sulphur 8
  • Henry's Elfin 7
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Southern Pearly-eye 5
  • Creole Pearly-eye 1
  • Gemmed Satyr 4
  • Carolina Satyr commom
  • Little Wood-Satyr 12
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 7
  • Clouded Skipper 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 4
  • Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1

Clouded Skipper

Common Buckeye

Creole Pearly-eye

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Gemmed Satyr

Zebra Swallowtail

Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper

Juvenal's Duskywing

Zabulon Skipper

Little Wood-Satyr

Salt Marsh Skipper

Palamedes Swallowtail

Zabulon Skipper

Cloudless Sulphur

Carolina Satyr

Henry's Elfin

Carolina Satyr

Mark and Holly Salvato

Osprey Acres Park and Nature Preserve, Vero Beach
Indian River County, FL

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 6
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 1
  • Oak Hairstreak 12
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • White Peacock 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1

Oak Hairstreak

Oak Hairstreak

Oak Hairstreak

Horace's Duskywing

Great Purple Hairstreak

Great Purple Hairstreak

Tom Fiore, Kristine Wallstrom

Van Cortlandt Park
Bronx County, NY

surprised to see this on a mild but mostly-cloudy day, and an uncommon sight in our experience for this park; the Summer Azure is by far the more common there, later in the year. Temp. around 60 F. and the azure flew directly in front of and below us, but did not settle. First of year for us.

  • Spring Azure 1