Recent sightings

Michael Diederich

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

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

  • Mourning Cloak 1

Clifford Hence

John Heinz NWR Rt 420 entrance
Delaware County, PA

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

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 1

Cabbage White

John Heyse

Underwood Drive, Palatka
Putnam County, FL

84F

  • Checkered White 1

Checkered White

Greg Prelich

Richloam WMA
Sumter County, FL

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

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

Whirlabout

Monk Skipper

Palamedes Swallowtail

Twin-spot Skipper

Henry's Elfin

Little Wood-Satyr

Dainty Sulphur

Appalachian Brown

Edward Perry IV

Mason Terrace, Melbourne
Brevard County, FL

Yard butters.

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

Zebra Heliconian

Orange-barred Sulphur

Gulf Fritillary

Monarch

Monk Skipper

Scott Singer

Mariton Wildlife Sanctuary
Northampton County, PA

  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 2

Mourning Cloak

Eastern Comma

Linda Cooper

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
Okeechobee County, FL

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

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

White Peacock

Georgia Satyr

Dusted Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Common Buckeye

Palmetto Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Whirlabout

Little Metalmark

Twin-spot Skipper

Swarthy Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Paul Strauss

Allapattah Flats Wildlife Management Area
Martin County, FL

Nectaring on Shrubby False Buttonweed ((Spermacoce verticillata).

  • Fiery Skipper 2

Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Bart Jones

Rick Evans Grandview Prairie WMA
Hempstead County, AR

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

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

Falcate Orangetip

Frosted Elfin

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Frosted Elfin

Frosted Elfin

Frosted Elfin

Gemmed Satyr

Gray Hairstreak

Goatweed Leafwing

Monarch

Juvenal's Duskywing

Pearl Crescent

Red-banded Hairstreak

Ron & Lori Smith

Lower Suwannee WMA
Levy County, FL

(27-198) Always worth a visit. FL93

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

Palamedes Swallowtail

Palatka Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Broad-winged Skipper

Juniper Hairstreak

Aaron's Skipper

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Tom Fiore, Kristine Wallstrom

Van Cortlandt Park
Bronx County, NY

A brief check of some areas for native wildflowers and other signs of spring; with a rather brief interlude of warmer sun. Less than 1/2-mile total walk here on this visit.

  • Mourning Cloak 3

John Heyse

at home, Palatka
Putnam County, FL

81F
Cloudless Sulphur on mounding mandevilla

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

Cloudless Sulphur

Jim Wilkinson

Columbia Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

  • Cabbage White 1

Cabbage White

Linda Cooper

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
Okeechobee County, FL

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

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

Aaron's Skipper

Palatka Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Phaon Crescent

Little Metalmark

Delaware Skipper

Southern Broken-Dash

Variegated Fritillary

Berry's Skipper

Berry's Skipper

Renee Davis

Bashakill WMA
Sullivan County, NY

First of the season for me.

  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Mourning Cloak 3

Mourning Cloak

Mourning Cloak

Ron & Lori Smith

Torreya State Park
Liberty County, FL

(28-141) A bit foggy until just after 11 and then everything came to life. A great day!

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 6
  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Henry's Elfin 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 9
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 11
  • Little Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Texan Crescent 4
  • Pearl Crescent 33
  • Question Mark 4
  • American Lady 3
  • Red Admiral 6
  • Common Buckeye 10
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 3
  • Southern Pearly-eye 5
  • Carolina Satyr 19
  • Little Wood-Satyr 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Pepper and Salt Skipper 2
  • Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 2

American Lady

Texan Crescent

Pepper and Salt Skipper

Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper

Red-spotted Purple

John and Nancy Crosby

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

2 pm temperature was about 75 degrees when we found the Juniper Hairstreak and Henry’s Elfin. Nectar source was thistle, briars and abundant amounts of yapon holly, Ilex vomitoria the host plant for Henry’s Elfin yahwehus subspecies. Both the Zebra Swallowtails and the Juniper Hairstreak were oviposting.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 7
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 14
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Henry's Elfin 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Southern Pearly-eye 7
  • Carolina Satyr common
  • Little Wood-Satyr common
  • Northern Cloudywing 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 7
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1

Little Wood-Satyr

Northern Cloudywing

Zabulon Skipper

Carolina Satyr

Southern Pearly-eye

Juniper Hairstreak

Juniper Hairstreak

Henry's Elfin

Cloudless Sulphur

Palamedes Swallowtail

Zebra Swallowtail

John Heyse

underwood drive, Palatka
Putnam County, FL

ceraunus blue

  • Ceraunus Blue 1

Ceraunus Blue

John Heyse

at home, Palatka
Putnam County, FL

plus 1 unid’d skipper

  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Phaon Crescent 1

Gulf Fritillary

Gulf Fritillary

Phaon Crescent

Phaon Crescent

Greg Prelich

Pasture Reserve
Lake County, FL

Great Southern White laying eggs on Virginia Peppergrass.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 32
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 12
  • Viceroy 1
  • Carolina Satyr 4
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Zebra Swallowtail

Zebra Heliconian

Viceroy

Gray Hairstreak

Great Southern White

Great Southern White egg