March 2014 Sightings

Alice Anderson

Private garden on Circle Drive
Dona Ana County, NM

The Gulf Fritillaries were nectaring on Wolfberry (Lycium torreyi, Solanaceae) in full bloom. One was fresh and bright, the other worn with a large beak mark on one hind wing. After nectaring, they flew around each other as if courting. The Cabbage Whites were investigating London rocket (Sysimbrium irio, Brassicaceae.)

  • Cabbage White 8
  • Gulf Fritillary 2

John Heyse

Carquinez Shoreline Park - Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

63-64F Pipevine swallowtail male on sorrel.
Typical form male cabbage white on Salvia.
Painted lady early - migrants typically arrive on Mar 23. This one (fresh) probably emerged here.
Spring azure = echo blue

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 8
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Spring Azure 5
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Painted Lady 1

Painted Lady

Cabbage White

Pipevine Swallowtail

Laurel Rhodes

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
Okeechobee County, FL

Sunny. Temp. 68-78F. Four hours of observation along main and side roads. Laurel and Dusty Rhodes (photos). Flowers in bloom: Pennyroyal, Blueberry, Fleabane, Lyonia, Pickerel Weed.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 50+
  • Black Swallowtail 8
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 4
  • Phaon Crescent 18
  • Pearl Crescent 12
  • Common Buckeye 7
  • White Peacock 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Aaron's Skipper 1
  • Palmetto Skipper 1
  • Palatka Skipper 1
  • Monk Skipper 2
  • Eufala Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1

Palmetto Skipper

Zarucco Duskywing

Southern Broken-Dash

Jeanette Klodzen

Little Cottonwood Canyon Trail
Salt Lake County, UT

Sighting around 6000ft — trail still covered in snow - 44degrees

  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell 1

Laurel Rhodes

Legacy Trail incl. Osprey Junction Park
Sarasota County, FL

Sunny, 78F.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 9
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 6
  • Barred Yellow 6
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 7
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • White Peacock 4
  • Viceroy 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Fiery Skipper 2

John Heyse

Geo. Miller Shoreline Park, Pt. Richmond
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Silvery Blue 12
  • Common Buckeye 4

Silvery Blue

Spring Azure

Silvery Blue

Silvery Blue

John Heyse

Carquinez Shoreline Park - Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

65F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 15
  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Large Marble 1
  • Mylitta Crescent 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Common Ringlet 1

Pipevine Swallowtail

Large Marble

Jim Lynch

Houston, Inside 610 loop, my front yard
Harris County, TX

70 degrees, late afternoon, unfertilized/pesticide free natural lawn, I have a variety of butterfly plants in the yard.

  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1

Common Checkered-Skipper

Clouded Skipper

Dennis Holmes

Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve. 9 miles west of Redding along Clear Creek Rd.
Shasta County, CA

The Pearly Marble is about 5 weeks earlier than last year.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail abundant
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Pearly Marble 1
  • Sara Orangetip 2
  • Brown Elfin 2
  • California Tortoiseshell 3
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Propertius Duskywing 3

Sara Orangetip

Brown Elfin

Pearly Marble

John Heyse

Briones Park
Contra Costa County, CA

63-68F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Mustard White 14
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Silvery Blue 18
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • Common Buckeye 1

Mustard White

Mustard White

Dennis Holmes

Whiskeytown NRA west of Redding.
Shasta County, CA

  • Mustard White 2
  • Brown Elfin 8
  • Spring Azure 15
  • California Tortoiseshell 1
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • Painted Lady 1

'Margined' Mustard White

Spring Azure

John Heyse

Perkins Canyon, Mt. Diablo
Contra Costa County, CA

female large marble on fiddleneck

  • Mustard White 1
  • Large Marble 1
  • Sara Orangetip 1
  • Silvery Blue 5
  • Mylitta Crescent 4
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • Propertius Duskywing 4

Large Marble

Alice Anderson

Valley View Park,Las Cruces, 88001
Dona Ana County, NM

Around noon on Sunday, March 9. Warm, sunny, still air. The butterflies were nectaring on dandelions. The maps in BtBTW shows 5 definite Duskywing species plus 2 marginal species here. I did see another unidentified Duskywing. The only one likely in town is Funereal, but the one I saw lacked a white fringe. It showed a chain-link pattern on the fw like the Sleepy.

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Sleepy Duskywing 1

Jan Chu

Deadman's Gulch, Roosevelt National Forest, west of Lyons, CO
Boulder County, CO

Mourning Cloak, Hoary Comma both overwintering adults.
No blossoms.

  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Hoary Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Dennis Holmes

Photographed near Clear Creek, near Cline Gulch Rd. about 1 1/2 miles from French Gulch.
Shasta County, CA

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Sara Orangetip 1
  • Brown Elfin 10
  • Moss' Elfin 2
  • Spring Azure 6
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Propertius Duskywing 1

Moss' Elfin

Rob Santry

San Bruno Mountain - summit area along rock wall and stonecrop patches
San Mateo County, CA

Dennis Holmes, Ken Wilson, Dave Bartholomew, and I met at the summit area of San Bruno Mountain to photograph the endangered San Bruno elfin, which is a subspecies of Moss’s Elfin. This butterfly was federally listed as endangered in 1976. Although the day started out as foggy and cold, the afternoon warmed up and we started seeing elfins.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Large Marble 1
  • Bramble Hairstreak 4
  • Moss' Elfin 3
  • Spring Azure 4
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Moss' Elfin

Moss' Elfin

John Heyse

Muir Land Trust - Fernandez Ranch
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 6
  • Mustard White 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Sara Orangetip 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Mourning Cloak 3
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Pipevine Swallowtail

Pipevine Swallowtail

John Heyse

martinez marsh
Contra Costa County, CA

female Cabbage White - note light apical patch typical of winter form, doubled lower spot, and buffy color.

same female Cabbage White underside: uppermost spot is actually on the hind wing; next the top spot, and lowermost, the doubled lower spot.

  • Cabbage White 10
  • Monarch 1

Cabbage White

Cabbage White

Rick Borchelt

American Chestnut Land Trust, Prince Frederick
Calvert County, MD

About three hours 1 pm - 4 pm in most sunny weather, light breeze, temperature in the mid-upper 60’s. Most butterflies were seen along the lower Double Oak Road trail.

  • Question Mark 1
  • Eastern Comma 7
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Mourning Cloak

Eastern Comma

Amelia Grimm

Sugarloaf Key
Monroe County, FL

Sunny, windy, 81 degrees

  • Phaon Crescent 6
  • Mangrove Buckeye 4

Phaon Crescent

Phaon Crescent

Mangrove Buckeye

Amelia Grimm

Key West Botanical Garden
Monroe County, FL

Windy, sunny, 81 degrees

  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • Silver-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Cassius Blue 4
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Julia Heliconian 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 5
  • Monarch 3
  • Mangrove Skipper 3
  • Hammock Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Florida Duskywing 4
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Monk Skipper 1

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak

Cassius Blue

Long-tailed Skipper

Florida Duskywing

Dennis Holmes

Horsetown/Clear Creek Preserve, 9 mi. west of Redding.
Shasta County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail abundant
  • Anise Swallowtail 2
  • Pearly Marble 4
  • Sara Orangetip 2
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Silvery Blue 1
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Propertius Duskywing 1

Pearly Marble

Silvery Blue

Anise Swallowtail

Jan Chu

North Point, Heil Valley Open Space
Boulder County, CO

Unusually small Variegated Fritillaries

  • Checkered White 7
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 12
  • Variegated Fritillary 7
  • Mourning Cloak 5

Alice Anderson

Private garden on Circle Drive, Las Cruces 88001
Dona Ana County, NM

Seen today, March 18, 2014. Wolfberry flowers are fading and falling off, but still attractive to Gulf Fritillaries. Three of them, all fresh, were nectaring today.

  • Cabbage White 3
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 3

Linda & Buck Cooper, Jane & John Lampkin

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
Okeechobee County, FL

A full day in pleasant temps - 66°-82° though not a lot of flowers yet.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 6
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 14
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Little Metalmark 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Phaon Crescent 10
  • Pearl Crescent 70
  • Common Buckeye 10
  • White Peacock 3
  • Viceroy 4
  • Carolina Satyr 27
  • Queen 1
  • Zarucco Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 6
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 14
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Aaron's Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1

Pearl Crescent

Laurel Rhodes

Felts Audubon Preserve, Palmetto FL
Manatee County, FL

Temp. 68-75F. Field time: 3 1/2 hrs. Karen Finch (photo) and Laurel Rhodes. Bidens and Tropical Sage were key nectar sources.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 7
  • Barred Yellow 16
  • Dainty Sulphur 4
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 7
  • Phaon Crescent 6
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 3
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Monarch 2
  • Queen 6
  • Southern Skipperling 7
  • Fiery Skipper 6
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Sachem

John Heyse

Miller Shoreline Park, Pt. Richmond
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 9
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Western Pine Elfin 3
  • Spring Azure 4
  • Silvery Blue 6
  • Common Buckeye 3

Western Pine Elfin

Pipevine Swallowtail

Rick Frederick

Swift Run area east of Elkton
Rockingham County, VA

Quite worn

  • Mourning Cloak 1

John Lampkin

Shell Mound, Cockroach Bay
Hillsborough County, FL

With Jane Lampkin
The fresh Buckeye was sunning and stunning in late afternoon light

  • Great Southern White 2
  • Dainty Sulphur 7
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Queen 3
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1

Common Buckeye

Steven Glynn

Oak Mountain State Park
Montgomery County, AL

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Brown Elfin 1
  • Eastern Comma 1

Steven Glynn

Tannehill State Park
Jefferson County, AL

  • Spring Azure 1
  • Goatweed Leafwing 1

Spring Azure

Goatweed Leafwing

Goatweed Leafwing

Candace Martino

St. Augustine - front yard
St. Johns County, FL

Photo is from February but two specimens continue to stay in the territory of my front yard and are seen every afternoon in the same place sunning themselves as of March 20.

  • Red Admiral 2

Red Admiral

Kenneth Bosso

Baton Rouge - Resthaven Cemetery
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

It was on the ground on an Oak leaf.

  • Pearl Crescent 1

Pearl Crescent

Tom Fiore

Van Cortlandt Park
Bronx County, NY

In sunny glades, air temp. hovering at about 50 F.

  • Mourning Cloak 2

Steven Glynn

Talladega National Forest
Bibb County, AL

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

John Heyse

Briones Park
Contra Costa County, CA

California Sister on buckeye.

  • Mustard White 2
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Silvery Blue 7
  • Mylitta Crescent 6
  • California Sister 1
  • Common Ringlet 6

California Sister

Jim Wilkinson

Rocky Gorge Reservoir at Browns Bridge Road
Howard County, MD

  • Cabbage White 1

Cabbage White

Tom Fiore

Van Cortlandt Park
Bronx County, NY

All seen in afternoon sun, temp. above 60 F. - E. Comma in good condition.

  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 5

Eastern Comma

Rob Santry

Anza Borrego Desert State Park
San Diego County, CA

My wife and I visited Anza-Borrego Desrt State Park and butterflied Yaqui Well and Plum Canyon. Temperatures were a nice 71 degrees when we finished up.
The Juniper Hairstreak were of the ‘Loki’ type.

  • Black Swallowtail 7
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Becker's White 3
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 2
  • Marine Blue 3
  • Sonoran Blue 2
  • Wright's Metalmark 6
  • Mormon Metalmark 6
  • California Patch 2
  • Painted Lady 11
  • Queen 4
  • Funereal Duskywing 4
  • Mojave Sootywing 1
  • Orange Skipperling 3

Wright's Metalmark

Orange Skipperling

Dennis Holmes

Along the last 3 miles of Gilman Rd before McCloud Bridge near where the McCloud River emptys into Lake Shasta.
Shasta County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail common
  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Mustard White 6
  • Sara Orangetip 13
  • Brown Elfin 2
  • Western Pine Elfin 3
  • Spring Azure 4
  • Silvery Blue 12
  • Mylitta Crescent 15
  • California Tortoiseshell 3
  • Mourning Cloak 6
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Common Ringlet 2
  • Propertius Duskywing 18

Mustard White

John Heyse

Perkins Canyon, Mt. Diablo
Contra Costa County, CA

67-72F
Propertius Duskywing
California Sister on buckeye
Eastern Tailed Blue female

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Mustard White 1
  • Sara Orangetip 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Silvery Blue 10
  • Mylitta Crescent 5
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • California Sister 2
  • Propertius Duskywing 5

California Sister

Propertius Duskywing

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Rob Santry

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
San Diego County, CA

My wife and I worked Yaqui Well and Plum Canyon for our second straight day. Temps warmed up a bit to 72 degrees.

Juniper Hairstreaks were of the ‘Loki’ type. The Arizona Powdered Skipper is considered unusual for Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and is a ‘lifer’ for me.

  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Becker's White 5
  • Checkered White 6
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Juniper Hairstreak 8
  • Marine Blue 5
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Sonoran Blue 1
  • Dotted Blue 1
  • Mormon Metalmark 2
  • California Patch 6
  • Painted Lady 16
  • Queen 3
  • Arizona Powdered-Skipper 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 6
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Arizona Powdered-Skipper

Juniper Hairstreak

Steven Glynn

Beach Island Historical Society Building and nearby areas
Aiken County, SC

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Falcate Orangetip common
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2

John Heyse

Carquinez Shoreline Park, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

61-63F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 18
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Sara Orangetip 5
  • Silvery Blue 4
  • Mylitta Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Common Ringlet 2
  • Monarch 2

Sara Orangetip

Sara Orangetip

Rob Santry

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
San Diego County, CA

This was our final day in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. We started out butterflying at Culp Valley campground/trailhead and found a Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak which is unusual for Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Later in the day, we found another one in Plum Canyon. That makes two and is a pretty noteworthy sighting and a ‘lifer’ !

  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 7
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
  • Marine Blue 3
  • Sonoran Blue 1
  • Wright's Metalmark 4
  • Mormon Metalmark 6
  • California Patch 9
  • Variable Checkerspot 1
  • Painted Lady 5
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Orange Skipperling 1

Dainty Sulphur

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak

Wright's Metalmark

Alice Anderson

Private garden on Circle Drive
Dona Ana County, NM

I have seen more Gulf Fritillaries in March 2014 than in my previous 32 years of butterfly watching in southern NM. Where are they all coming from? There is one species of native passion flower here, which is a small, not common plant that grows in the mountains. Some people grow cultivated passion flowers in their urban gardens, and some of my previous sightings were near cultivated passion flowers, but I’d never seen more than one Gulf Fritillary in one year before. The garden owner says he is still seeing Gulf Fritillaries.

  • Checkered White 7
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Marine Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 1

john heyse

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

60-63F

male Western Tailed-Blue - but no tails!

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Sara Orangetip 5
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Western Tailed-Blue 1
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Silvery Blue 9
  • Mylitta Crescent 9
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Common Ringlet 8
  • Monarch 1

Common Ringlet

Western Tailed-Blue

Tom Palmer

Florida Caverns State Park
Jackson County, FL

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 5
  • American Snout 2
  • Pearl Crescent 10
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Carolina Satyr 20
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1

American Snout

Mourning Cloak

Juniper Hairstreak

Steven Glynn

Dick Kleberg Park
Kleberg County, TX

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 5
  • Checkered White common
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Dainty Sulphur common
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Fatal Metalmark 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Funereal Duskywing 4
  • Orange Skipperling 1
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 2

Phaon Crescent

Celia's Roadside-Skipper

Giant Swallowtail

Funereal Duskywing

Fatal Metalmark

Steven Glynn

NABA Butterfly Center
Hidalgo County, TX

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Florida White 2
  • Checkered White common
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 3
  • Lyside Sulphur common
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Dainty Sulphur common
  • Cyna Blue 4
  • Reakirt's Blue 1
  • Fatal Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Mexican Fritillary 1
  • Bordered Patch 1
  • Crimson Patch 1
  • Elada Checkerspot common
  • Texan Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Red Admiral common
  • Tropical Leafwing 2
  • Hackberry Emperor common
  • Tawny Emperor common
  • Monarch 3
  • Queen common
  • Brown Longtail 1
  • Two-barred Flasher 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper common
  • Laviana White-Skipper common
  • Clouded Skipper common
  • Sachem 1

Elada Crescent

Crimson Patch

Two-barred Flasher

Cyna Blue

Elada Crescent

Tropical Leafwing

Crimson Patch

Steven Glynn

Bentsen State Park
Hidalgo County, TX

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Florida White 1
  • Checkered White common
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Southern Dogface common
  • Large Orange Sulphur common
  • Lyside Sulphur common
  • Cyna Blue 2
  • Reakirt's Blue 1
  • American Snout 4
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Mexican Fritillary 1
  • American Lady 6
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Hackberry Emperor common
  • Empress Leilia abundant
  • Monarch common
  • Queen common
  • Guava Skipper 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper abundant
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Sachem 1

Guava Skipper

John Heyse

Back Creek Canyon, Mt. Diablo
Contra Costa County, CA

62-67F Looked for Edith’s Checkerspot - none seen.]

Brown Elfin

male Propertius Duskywing on blue dick

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Large Marble 2
  • Sara Orangetip 6
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Brown Elfin 2
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Silvery Blue 4
  • Painted Lady 1
  • California Sister 2
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Propertius Duskywing 1

Propertius Duskywing

Steven Glynn

Falcon State Park Butterfly Garden and nearby areas
Starr County, TX

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Giant Swallowtail 5
  • Checkered White common
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 3
  • Lyside Sulphur abundant
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Dainty Sulphur common
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Reakirt's Blue 3
  • American Snout 4
  • Theona Checkerspot 2
  • Bordered Patch 3
  • Elada Checkerspot common
  • Vesta Crescent 1
  • Monarch 1

Bordered Patch

Theona Checkerspot

Vesta Crescent

Little Yellow

John Lampkin

Shell Mound, Cockroach Bay
Hillsborough County, FL

With Jane Lampkin
Good number of species for a short time in a small area.

  • Great Southern White 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 16
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 6
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • American Lady 5
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Mangrove Buckeye 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Queen 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 15

John Lampkin

Rye Preserve
Manatee County, FL

With Jane Lampkin

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 5
  • American Lady 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 13

Steven Glynn

Resaca de la Palma SP
Cameron County, TX

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Checkered White common
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Large Orange Sulphur 5
  • Lyside Sulphur common
  • Boisduval's Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur common
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 3
  • Reakirt's Blue 3
  • American Snout 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Bordered Patch 2
  • Texan Crescent 2
  • Phaon Crescent 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Mexican Bluewing 1
  • Tawny Emperor 1
  • Gemmed Satyr 3
  • Carolina Satyr 6
  • Monarch 3
  • Queen 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper common
  • Laviana White-Skipper 4
  • Turk's-cap White-Skipper 2
  • Julia's Skipper 5
  • Clouded Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Southern Broken-Dash 4
  • Sachem 4
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 2

Sleepy Orange

Gemmed Satyr

Julia's Skipper

Dusky-blue Groundstreak

Mexican Bluewing

Jim Lynch

Houston, Texas
Harris County, TX

perfect weather and a beautiful sunny afternoon in central Houston.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Bart Jones

Eagle Lake WMA
Shelby County, TN

  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Question Mark 3
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 1

Jeffrey Glassberg

National Butterfly Center
Hidalgo County, TX

56 species; images are from March 27 when 114 Head Start kids visited the NBC. You can see the profusion of wildflowers blooming in the Geoffrey McAllen Memorial Texas Grassland and Wildflower Refugium that surrounds the Visitors Pavilion. The other photo is along the Hackberry Trail. A Monarch was laying eggs on a Tropical Milkweed.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 10
  • Black Swallowtail 25
  • Giant Swallowtail 5
  • Florida White 3
  • Checkered White 30
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Southern Dogface 4
  • Yellow Angled-Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 3
  • Lyside Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 15
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • Dainty Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 4
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 1
  • Cyna Blue 9
  • Reakirt's Blue 6
  • Fatal Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 5
  • Gulf Fritillary 8
  • Mexican Fritillary 1
  • Bordered Patch 5
  • Crimson Patch 2
  • Elada Checkerspot 7
  • Texan Crescent 2
  • Vesta Crescent 10
  • Phaon Crescent 25
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 30
  • Red Admiral 12
  • Tropical Leafwing 3
  • Tawny Emperor 60
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Monarch 6
  • Queen 8
  • White-striped Longtail 1
  • Brown Longtail 4
  • Two-barred Flasher 1
  • Texas Powdered-Skipper 1
  • Brown-banded Skipper 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 4
  • White Checkered-Skipper 20
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Laviana White-Skipper 7
  • Common Streaky-Skipper 2
  • Common Sootywing 2
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 15
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Southern Broken-Dash 3
  • Sachem 15
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 2