September 2016 Sightings

Beth Polvino

University of CA at Santa Cruz Arborteum
Santa Cruz County, CA

On a trip to CA ~ Both new butterflies to me

  • Common Ringlet 3
  • Woodland Skipper 5

Common Ringlet

Jim Egbert

Oyster Bay Rd Gulf Shores
Baldwin County, AL

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 8
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 7
  • Ocola Skipper 6

Brett Badeaux

Lake Cuyamaca and nearby
San Diego County, CA

Sunny, many flowers. A lot of oddball singletons this visit. The Variegated fritillary is a rare stray to California which will have to live on as the one that got away as I was unable to get a picture after apparently startling it. A lot of the monarchs seemed to be just hanging out in shady areas.

  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 30+
  • Pale Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cabbage White 30+
  • Orange Sulphur 60+
  • Queen Alexandra's Sulphur 1
  • California Dogface 1
  • Purplish Copper 42
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Leda Ministreak 1
  • Marine Blue 4
  • Dotted Blue 2
  • Melissa Blue 100+
  • Acmon Blue 100+
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Coronis Fritillary 9
  • Mylitta Crescent 60+
  • Satyr Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • American Lady 8
  • Painted Lady 10
  • Common Buckeye 14
  • California Sister 6
  • Monarch 50+
  • Queen 5
  • Afranius Duskywing 30+
  • Northern White-Skipper 1
  • Woodland Skipper 40+

Coronis Fritillary

Gulf Fritillary

Purplish Copper

Melissa Blue

Anise Swallowtail

Dotted Blue

Todd Eiben

Pete's Pond Preserve
Lake County, OH

  • Ocola Skipper 1

Ocola Skipper

Ocola Skipper

Jeffrey Glassberg

Baytown Nature Center
Harris County, TX

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 9
  • Little Yellow 17
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 6
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Phaon Crescent 18
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Tawny Emperor 7
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 13
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 8
  • Fiery Skipper 15
  • Bay Skipper 3
  • Dun Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 1

Bay Skipper

Raymond Osmolski

Harvey Public Schools, Dist 152 (Parking Lot)
Cook County, IL

The north winds are blowing hard. The Monarch is on the move south.

  • Monarch 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

John Heyse

Martinez Marsh, Carquinez Shoreline, Mtz, Franklin Cyn. Rd.
Contra Costa County, CA

74F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Great Basin Wood-Nymph 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Sandhill Skipper 3
  • Woodland Skipper 9
  • Umber Skipper 2

Great Basin Wood-Nymph

Common Ringlet

Woodland Skipper

Kit Goodwin

S County Line Rd, Johnstown
Licking County, OH

  • Peck's Skipper 1

Peck's Skipper

Peck's Skipper

Kent (KC) Jensen

McCrory Gardens
Brookings County, SD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Meadow Fritillary
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Monarch abundant
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem

Allan R. Loudell

Front of liquor store window, Naamans Road, Brandywine Hundred
New Castle County, DE

Always interesting to observe “weird” butterfly behavior!

In this case, a Peck’s Skipper landing and sitting on the window of a liquor store at midday.

Overcast day!

  • Peck's Skipper 1

Ben Cacace

Battery Park--Carousel Garden
New York County, NY

In the garden at the carousel at the south end of Battery Park two Black Swallowtails continue to interact with each other and one Monarch was seen after the rain.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Monarch 1

Ben Cacace

Battery Park City--R.F. Wagner Jr. Park
New York County, NY

I was looking for butterflies after the rain passed and spotted a male Black Swallowtail flying over the lawn. It settled on the lawn allowing a close approach. Heavily cropped iPhone image taken at 11:50a.

  • Black Swallowtail 1

Black Swallowtail

Rob Santry

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
Josephine County, OR

Forest Service lands near Oregon Caves National Monument, driving along Forest Service Road 4612. Cathy and I saw at least 50 Golden Hairstreaks along the route!

  • Golden Hairstreak 50

Raymond Osmolski

Northwest of Peotone, Illinois
Will County, IL

Mile Marker 327 on Interstate 57

  • Monarch 1

Raymond Osmolski

Northwest of Peotone, Illinois
Will County, IL

Mile marker 186 on Interstate 57

  • Monarch 1

David H. Bartholomew

Long Ridge Open Space Preserve
San Mateo County, CA

11:15-2:15 Sunny and pleasant 72 degrees.

  • Acmon Blue 34
  • Coronis Fritillary 14
  • Mylitta Crescent 5
  • American Lady 3
  • California Sister 5
  • Common Ringlet 12
  • Mournful Duskywing 13
  • Woodland Skipper 5
  • Umber Skipper 4

Mournful Duskywing

Acmon Blue

American Lady

Coronis Fritillary

David H. Bartholomew

Montebello Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

I was expecting to see Golden Hairstreaks here, but despite a 4-mile effort, shaking canyon oak branches and tossing pebbles, I was unable to flush a single hairstreak.

  • Acmon Blue 8
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • California Sister 3
  • Common Ringlet 4
  • Mournful Duskywing 3
  • Woodland Skipper 4
  • Umber Skipper 1

Todd Eiben

Oxbow Lagoon at North Chagrin Reservation
Lake County, OH

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • Pearl Crescent 14
  • Viceroy 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 7
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Least Skipper 7
  • Fiery Skipper 29
  • Peck's Skipper 16
  • Zabulon Skipper 3
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Fiery Skipper

Ocola Skipper

Ocola Skipper

Ocola Skipper

John J. Collins

797 Ashton Street, Raritan
Somerset County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Sachem 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

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

Jesse Back

In Walton, directly southwest of Triple Crown.
Boone County, KY

Looks like we’ll be seeing more of these guys within the next few months.

  • Red-spotted Purple 2

Red-spotted Purple

Robert Bell

Sand Ridge State Forest
Mason County, IL

77 degrees, light wind, beautiful—but no Regal Fritillaries seen this year!

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White abundant
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Cloudless Sulphur abundant
  • Little Yellow superabundant
  • Gray Hairstreak 4
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 8
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Red-spotted Purple abundant
  • Hackberry Emperor 2
  • Monarch 12
  • Silver-spotted Skipper superabundant
  • Fiery Skipper common

John J. Collins

Negri-Nepote Grasslands
Somerset County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 7
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 71
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 33
  • Pearl Crescent 12
  • Monarch 3
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Common Checkered-Skipper

Alan Wells

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly Odonate and Butterfly count. Survey with Della Wells, Nancy Slowik, and Karen Nickeson.

09:00 AM to 12:30 PM; air temperature ranged from 64 to 71 F; dew point temperature ranged from 58 to 60 F; high wind speed 6 to 11 mph from NE.

  • Cabbage White 2
  • American Copper 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 10
  • Pearl Crescent 15
  • Appalachian Brown 5
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 4

Steven Rosenthal, Steve Walter

Jones Beach State Park, NY (West End, and Central Mall)
Nassau County, NY

highlight from 8:30-1:30
sunny, breezy

  • Cloudless Sulphur 6

Michael Drake

Pennypack at Pine Road
Philadelphia County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Sachem 11

Raymond Osmolski

North of Dalhgren, Illinois 62828
Hamilton County, IL

  • Black Swallowtail 150
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 47

Black Swallowtail

Raymond Osmolski

North of Dalhgren, Illinois
Hamilton County, IL

Lots of Monarchs, feeding in a CRP Field.

  • Monarch 20

Monarch

Ken Wilson

Box Canyon
Pima County, AZ

Stopped there around 9 AM briefly and again at 3 PM for 1 hour. The morning stop was a wet wash less than a quarter mile west of Box Canyon. The numbers of butterflies seen was staggering and quite amazing to witness. There were so many that initially I had a difficult time focusing on the smaller species.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Southern Dogface 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Mexican Yellow 10
  • Tailed Orange 1
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Leda Ministreak common
  • Marine Blue abundant
  • Ceraunus Blue abundant
  • Reakirt's Blue abundant
  • Fatal Metalmark 1
  • Palmer's Metalmark abundant
  • American Snout superabundant
  • Bordered Patch common
  • Tiny Checkerspot common
  • Elada Checkerspot 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Empress Leilia 8
  • Queen common
  • Golden-headed Scallopwing 2
  • Arizona Powdered-Skipper 1
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Tropical Least Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 2

Fatal Metalmark

Ken Wilson

Off Harshaw Rd, near Patagonia
Santa Cruz County, AZ

Sunny with temps nearing the mid 90s. Species diversity at this location was way down from previous visit.

  • Checkered White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Juniper Hairstreak 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Leda Ministreak common
  • Marine Blue common
  • Ceraunus Blue common
  • Reakirt's Blue common
  • Palmer's Metalmark abundant
  • American Snout abundant
  • Bordered Patch common
  • Tiny Checkerspot common
  • Queen common
  • Dull Firetip 20+
  • Orange Skipperling 2

Bordered Patch

Dull Firetip

Palmer's Metalmark

Kent (KC) Jensen

Wind Cave National Park
Custer County, SD

  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Marine Blue
  • Boisduval's Blue
  • Monarch

Orange Sulphur

Orange Sulphur

John J. Collins

797 Ashton Street, Raritan
Somerset County, NJ

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

Jim Egbert

Roscoe Rd Orange Beach
Baldwin County, AL

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Sleepy Orange 1

Andrew Block

20 Hancock Ave., Yonkers,
Westchester County, NY

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

Todd Eiben

Euclid Creek Reservation
Cuyahoga County, OH

Excited to find 2 Sachems. They rarely migrate to the lakeshore counties of Ohio. This is my 3rd Ocola Skipper in 3 days in different fields of Cuyahoga and Lake county!

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 108
  • Clouded Sulphur 24
  • Orange Sulphur 15
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 13
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 137
  • Monarch 9
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 14
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 31
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 22
  • Peck's Skipper 43
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 7
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Sachem

Sachem

Sachem

Ocola Skipper

Ocola Skipper

William D. Beck

Ruby Road
Santa Cruz County, AZ

“Seep willow” in canyon bottoms continues as a key nectar source for a large number of butterflies.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail common
  • Checkered White common
  • Southern Dogface
  • Cloudless Sulphur abundant
  • Lyside Sulphur common
  • Mexican Yellow common
  • Tailed Orange
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Gray Hairstreak common
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Leda Ministreak abundant
  • Arizona Metalmark 2
  • Palmer's Metalmark sa
  • American Snout sa
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Variegated Fritillary common
  • Bordered Patch common
  • Tiny Checkerspot common
  • Elada Checkerspot common
  • Pearl Crescent
  • American Lady
  • Tropical Buckeye 4
  • Empress Leilia
  • Monarch
  • Queen common
  • Dull Firetip common
  • Hammock Skipper 2
  • Acacia Skipper 2
  • Funereal Duskywing common
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Common Sootywing
  • Orange Skipperling
  • Pahaska Skipper 1
  • Nysa Roadside-Skipper 1

Palmer's Metalmark

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • American Lady
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Sachem

Curtis A. Lehman

Frick Park, Pittsburgh
Allegheny County, PA

  • Cabbage White 14
  • Clouded Sulphur 16
  • Orange Sulphur 24
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 28
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 2
  • Hackberry Emperor 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 12
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Jim Wilkinson

Stevens Forest, Columbia
Howard County, MD

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1

Barry Stevenson

Avra Valley/12 miles west of I-10 near Ironwood Forest National Monument
Pima County, AZ

I was shocked and delighted to spot this White Peacock in our garden. I’ve never seen one before but recognized it instantly.

  • White Peacock 1

White Peacock

Ken Wilson

Sycamore Canyon
Santa Cruz County, AZ

Visited 8:30-11:30. Mid 80s on arrival and mid 90s by time of departure. The number of species seen was less that half from previous visit. For the species present, some were seen in the hundreds. Despite arriving early, roadside skippers were notably absent or missed.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 10
  • Southern Dogface 10+
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Sleepy Orange 5
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Leda Ministreak common
  • Marine Blue common
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Reakirt's Blue common
  • American Snout common
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Bordered Patch common
  • Elf 3
  • Tiny Checkerspot common
  • Queen common
  • Dull Firetip 10+
  • Funereal Duskywing common
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Toltec Roadside-Skipper 1

Elf

Ken Wilson

Madera Canyon
Pima County, AZ

Sunny, 98 degrees. Visited 12:30 to 3:00.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 8
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Southern Dogface 7
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Marine Blue common
  • Ceraunus Blue common
  • Reakirt's Blue common
  • Palmer's Metalmark 1
  • American Snout common
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Bordered Patch common
  • Tiny Checkerspot common
  • Elada Checkerspot 1
  • Texan Crescent 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • California Sister 3
  • Nabokov's Satyr 2
  • Red-bordered Satyr 3
  • Queen common
  • Dull Firetip 10+
  • Dorantes Longtail 3
  • Orange Skipperling 2

Little Yellow

Southern Dogface

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

Tom Fiore, Mike Freeman

Central Park (Manhattan), northern section
New York County, NY

Common Buckeye was different, fresher individual than a week ago at same area; Sachem in numbers, sought any more-rare skippers but didn’t find. Monarchs at various flowers, not actively migrating; sunny & breezy (E wind), 80+F. Mostly a mid-day search. 3 Black Swallowtail cat’s seen on a garden umbellifer, or Apiaceae if you prefer.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 8+
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 12+
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 10+
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Sachem 12+

Karlo and Alison Mirth

Kissena Corridor Park
Queens County, NY

Sightings made from 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM. It was good to see nice numbers of duskywings and other butterflies. The giant spider that was ingesting the unfortunate Orange Sulphur appears to be Argiope aurantia, or the Yellow Garden Spider.

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White common
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 10
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent common
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 8
  • Common Sootywing 5
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Sachem 10
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Orange Sulphur

Variegated Fritillary

Variegated Fritillary

James Shelton

Cumberland Marsh Natural Area Preserve
New Kent County, VA

Tropical Storm Yesterday

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Monarch 1

Venice Kelly

Glacier lake 5 miles north of nederland
Boulder County, CO

there isn’t much flying these days up here at nearly 9,000 feet. we have been having chilly and stormy weather. i was happy to see these today.

  • Pine White 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Green Comma 1
  • Hoary Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • Red Admiral 1

Pine White

Dainty Sulphur

Michael Drake

Bryn Athyn College Gardens
Montgomery County, PA

Sunny, breezy, upper 70’s

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 15
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Variegated Fritillary 5
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Peck's Skipper 12
  • Sachem 143

Michael Drake

High school park, Elkins park
Montgomery County, PA

Warm and windy

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 10
  • Peck's Skipper 6
  • Sachem 36

Mark Adams

Albemarle County: Piedmont Store, Jarman Gap Rd, Shifflett Mill Rd. Greene County: Simmons Gap Rd.
Albemarle County, VA

Sunny, 79 – 85 deg F, wind light & variable.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 40
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 16
  • Cabbage White 35
  • Clouded Sulphur 30
  • Orange Sulphur 15
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Sleepy Orange 7
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 60
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • American Snout 6
  • Variegated Fritillary 6
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 9
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent 40
  • Question Mark 4
  • Eastern Comma 12
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 35
  • Red-spotted Purple 15
  • Viceroy 1
  • Northern Pearly-eye 2
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Least Skipper 8
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Sachem 45

Viceroy

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Little Glassywing

Jim Egbert

US Hwy 31 road side in Flomaton
Escambia County, AL

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Whirlabout 1

Jim Egbert

Bee Tree Creek on Co Rd 87
Baldwin County, AL

This is rich location,this list of sightings was from a 30 min walk.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Clouded Skipper 5
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 4
  • Sachem 1
  • Dun Skipper 4
  • Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 3
  • Twin-spot Skipper 7

Jeanette Klodzen

Sentry Trail (Antelope Island)
Davis County, UT

The area this trail goes thru was burned a few months ago. (Part of a 15,000 acre fire burning over 1/2 the island). A couple small patches of grassland remain in the burned area.

And one hardy skipper.

  • Common Branded Skipper 1

Steven Glynn

Roadside nectar patches along Back Neck Road, near Fairton
Cumberland County, NJ

Also includes number from nearby Dix WMA, where Sleepy Oranges had been found last month, but not again today.

This stretch of Back Neck Road is probably the best patch of butterflying in the county. More than 300 individuals and 28 species seen in less than 90 minutes during this late afternoon search.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 14
  • American Copper 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 11
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue common
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Snout 3
  • Pearl Crescent common
  • American Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Monarch 13
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper common
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Sachem abundant
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Aaron's Skipper 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 6
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Spicebush Swallowtail

Aaron's Skipper

White M Hairstreak

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

American Snout

Ocola Skipper

Tom Fiore, Mike Freeman

north end of Central Park (Manhattan)
New York County, NY

Two White M Hairstreaks were the highlight, seen at 5 pm in same area but not together on same Eupatorium. The first seen was worn, the 2nd in very good shape. The 2 more-regular ‘fall’ hairstreak species here were also seen. Sunny, north wind, 80F. - all observations late in day.

  • Black Swallowtail x
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail x
  • Spicebush Swallowtail x
  • Cabbage White x
  • Orange Sulphur x
  • White M Hairstreak 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 5+
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Pearl Crescent x
  • American Lady 2
  • Red Admiral x
  • Monarch 12+
  • Silver-spotted Skipper x
  • Sachem 20+

White M Hairstreak

White M Hairstreak

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Crossline Skipper
  • Sachem

Tom Palmer

Loyce Harpe Park, Mulberry
Polk County, FL

Rain and closed section of park affected totals. Lots of Bidens and other nectar sources.

  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 7
  • Barred Yellow 96
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 8
  • Gulf Fritillary 13
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 11
  • Viceroy 3
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Dorantes Longtail 19
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 3

White M Hairstreak

Barred Yellow

Chris Blazo

Wenger & Coble Rd. field
Franklin County, PA

A huge field filled with Lespedeza. I wasn’t able to get a picture of the Leonard’s and I think I saw a Eufala Skipper. It landed and took off within a second.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 70+
  • Clouded Sulphur 1000+
  • Orange Sulphur 700+
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 30+
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 9
  • Pearl Crescent 20+
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 12
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 8
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 12
  • Leonard's Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Sachem 50+
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Ocola Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Melanie Link Taylor

Residential Butterfly Garden, Apple Valley CAL
San Bernardino County, CA

This Satchem was attending to dandelion blossoms in the wildlife habitat.

  • Sachem 1

Sachem

Rich Kelly

William Cullen Bryant Preserve
Nassau County, NY

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 40
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 10
  • Peck's Skipper 35
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Sachem 15

Andrew Block

20 Hancock Ave., Yonkers,
Westchester County, NY

A new species for me in this part of NY.

  • Red-spotted Purple 1

Kathy Barylski

Antietam Natl Battlefield
Washington County, MD

Over 7 hours of observation across two days (9-4 and 9-6). Both days with temps rising from 80 to 90, sunny. Covered West Woods, Mumma Farm, Roulette Farm and educational trail, Balls Farm, and a small portion of Burnside Bridge area.
All Monarchs were female and at least 4 caterpillars found.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 9
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 120
  • Clouded Sulphur 26
  • Orange Sulphur 46
  • Gray Hairstreak 7-8
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 26
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 13
  • American Snout 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 42
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 11
  • Silvery Checkerspot 11-12
  • Pearl Crescent 65
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 5
  • Common Buckeye 75-80
  • Red-spotted Admiral 3
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Northern Pearly-eye 1
  • Monarch 3-5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 22
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 65-70
  • Least Skipper 13
  • Peck's Skipper 5
  • Crossline Skipper 6
  • Sachem 160+
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Black Swallowtail

Common Checkered-Skipper

Common Checkered-Skipper

Common Buckeye

Meadow Fritillary

American Snout

Gray Hairstreak

Horace's Duskywing

Monarch caterpillar

Red-banded Hairstreak

Sachem

Silvery Checkerspot

Jim Wilkinson

Oxford Square, Elkridge
Howard County, MD

small dark grass skipper looks like Northern Broken-Dash but is late in the season here

  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Monarch 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 25

Northern Broken-Dash

Cloudless Sulphur

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 14
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 9
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Common Buckeye 8
  • Monarch 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Sachem 45
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Ocola Skipper

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Sunny and 91 degrees with high dewpoint.

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3

Curtis A. Lehman

Panhandle Trail, Burgettstown to the West Virginia border.
Washington County, PA

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 7
  • Cabbage White 42
  • Clouded Sulphur 56
  • Orange Sulphur 78
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 54
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 9
  • Pearl Crescent 24
  • Question Mark 5
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 4
  • Viceroy 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 12
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 28
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Leonard's Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 9
  • Crossline Skipper 4

Leonard's Skipper

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Red Admiral
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem

John J. Collins

Roy WMA, Flatbrookville
Sussex County, NJ

  • American Copper 3
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Least Skipper 1

John J. Collins

Wallpack Center
Sussex County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3

Leslie Romesberg

My native garden
York County, PA

Sunny 85 degrees

  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1

Laurel Rhodes

Celery Fields Park and Audubon Center
Sarasota County, FL

With Fred Allen, Karen Finch, Steve Freedman, Dusty Rhodes. Full sun, 90-92F. Abundant weeds that were not mowed offered good nectar opportunities.

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 8
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 6
  • Barred Yellow abundant
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 9
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 28
  • White Peacock abundant
  • Queen 10
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 3
  • Fiery Skipper 22
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Brazilian Skipper 2

Jim Egbert

Blakeley State Park;Spanish Fort
Baldwin County, AL

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 8
  • Carolina Satyr 6
  • Monarch 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 4
  • Horace's Duskywing 2

Jim Egbert

Upper Delta WMA
Baldwin County, AL

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 7
  • Little Yellow common
  • Sleepy Orange 8
  • Gray Hairstreak 5
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Snout common
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Question Mark common
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Red-spotted Purple common
  • Viceroy 18
  • Hackberry Emperor common
  • Tawny Emperor 2
  • Carolina Satyr common
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Long-tailed Skipper common
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Clouded Skipper 5
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Northern Broken-Dash 3
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 2

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Red Admiral
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem

Jim Wilkinson

Harmans
Anne Arundel County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 8
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Sachem 13

American Lady

Beth Polvino

Prineville Reservoir ~ Nature Preserve "Unmaintained" road
Crook County, OR

tons of butterflies on Rabbitbrush including the Purplish Cooper and Juba Skipper picture below

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Blue Copper 2
  • Purplish Copper 19
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Juba Skipper 15

Common Checkered-Skipper

Juba Skipper

Purplish Copper

David L. Amadio

Desert Road, Between White Marsh Rd & Dismal Swamp Refuge office.
Suffolk city, VA

Stopped here shortly after 5 p.m.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Fiery Skipper 2

David L. Amadio

White Marsh Rd. between Washington & Jericho ditch trails
Suffolk city, VA

A 15 min. stop along a fairly productive roadside. Appeared to have been partially sprayed with herbicides killing off much of the mistflower.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1

David L. Amadio

Great Dismal Swamp NWR, Washington & Jericho ditch trails
Suffolk city, VA

Observations made from 9:45 to 4:40. Rain showers for the first half hour.Sun appeared at 11:25 and continued most of the day with the high temp.around 90 late in the afternoon. Primary nectar source was Eupatorium ( Joe-Pye Weed).

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 12
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 13
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 62
  • Sleepy Orange 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 15
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 9
  • American Snout 6
  • Variegated Fritillary 4
  • Pearl Crescent 21
  • Eastern Comma 10
  • American Lady 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 14
  • Red-spotted Purple 17
  • Viceroy 8
  • Southern Pearly-eye 3
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 12
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 23
  • Carolina Roadside-Skipper 2

Cloudless Sulphur

American Snout

Carolina Roadside-Skipper

Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper

Southern Pearly-eye

Palamedes Swallowtail

Sleepy Orange

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma
  • Red Admiral
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper

Brett Badeaux

Santa Margarita River Trail
San Diego County, CA

80F

  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Cabbage White 20+
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Acmon Blue 1
  • Fatal Metalmark 14
  • Mormon Metalmark 25
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Lorquin's Admiral 14
  • California Sister 6
  • Mournful Duskywing 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Woodland Skipper 40+
  • Umber Skipper 7

Woodland Skipper

Common Buckeye

Kent (KC) Jensen

McCrory Gardens
Brookings County, SD

Hundreds of Monarchs and many Painted Ladies in McCrory Gardens today.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White abundant
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Painted Lady abundant
  • Red Admiral
  • Monarch abundant
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Monarch

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Painted Lady

Sachem

David H. Bartholomew

Mountain View, Shoreline Park
Santa Clara County, CA

Pleasant day by the Bay. Surprises of the day were several Woodland Skippers and a Coronis Fritillary, a long way from their usual habitats.

  • Western Pygmy-Blue 16
  • Coronis Fritillary 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Sandhill Skipper 2
  • Woodland Skipper 8

Sandhill Skipper

Sandhill Skipper

Woodland Skipper

Michael Drake

Morris Arboretum
Philadelphia County, PA

Overcast and hot. Peck’s numbers are building up

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 37
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 7
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 23
  • Peck's Skipper 34
  • Sachem 110

Michael Drake

Springfield Butterfly Garden
Montgomery County, PA

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Peck's Skipper 30
  • Sachem 47

Nancy Edelman

Town of Briarcliffe Acres
Horry County, SC

Finally seeing Gulf Fritillaries. Usually we have lots of cats by late July, not this year. Here is a photo of a Gulf on a passion flower

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 6
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1

Gulf Fritillary

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Sachem 15

Orange Sulphur

Fiery Skipper

Rich Kelly, Mary Normandia

Elmira
Chemung County, NY

  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Rich Kelly, Seth Ausubel

Newtown Battlefield State Park
Chemung County, NY

  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1

Rich Kelly, Seth Ausubel, Mary Normandia

Waverly Glen Park, Waverly
Tioga County, NY

  • Cabbage White 20
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 15

Eastern Tailed-Blue

David L. Amadio

Norfolk Botanical Gardens
Norfolk city, VA

Observations made from 11:10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 86-92 degrees with hazy sun & increasing cloud cover in the afternoon.A very ambitious search here today in this outstanding Botanical garden. A great balance between horticultural perfection and suitable pollinator habitat. Fiery & Ocola count is very conservative.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 13
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 17
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 8
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 8
  • Cabbage White 11
  • Cloudless Sulphur 70
  • Sleepy Orange 12
  • Gray Hairstreak 11
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 11
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 47
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 22
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 30
  • Long-tailed Skipper 4
  • Horace's Duskywing 21
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 124
  • Sachem 26
  • Dion Skipper 2
  • Brazilian Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 43

Fiery Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

Pipevine Swallowtail

Brazilian Skipper

Long-tailed Skipper

Sleepy Orange

Ocola Skipper

David L. Amadio

Great Dismal Swamp NWR, Washington Ditch
Suffolk city, VA

Observations made between 8:35 & 10:25 a.m. 76-80 degrees and sunny.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8
  • Cloudless Sulphur 7
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 14
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 20
  • Viceroy 4
  • Southern Pearly-eye 1
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 12

Alan Wells

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly Odonate and Butterfly count. Survey with Della Wells and Nancy Slowik.

09:00 AM to 12:00 PM; air temperature ranged from 79 to 87 F; dew point temperature ranged from 72 to 73 F; high wind speed 6 to 12 mph from SW.

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • American Copper 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 12
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Appalachian Brown

Gray Hairstreak

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Mostly cloudy and damp with a few showers.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper

Todd Eiben

Euclid Creek Reservation
Cuyahoga County, OH

I got to see this very dark and fresher looking Ocola Skipper from the first 2 pics. I was pretty excited startled to find another Ocola Skipper on the other side of the field 10 minutes later! I only got one crummy photo, but it will do. This is the first time I have seen 2 Ocola Skippers on the same weekly butterfly transect walk on the same visit ever! Monarchs are on their way migrating through NE Ohio!

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Checkered White 62
  • Clouded Sulphur 11
  • Orange Sulphur 9
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Pearl Crescent 58
  • American Lady 1
  • Monarch 102
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 16
  • Peck's Skipper 20
  • Sachem 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Ocola Skipper

Ocola Skipper

Ocola Skipper

Tom Fiore

Hook Mt., summit area (north of Nyack)
Rockland County, NY

Cloudless Sulphur is very uncommon in Rockland Co., even though not far from shore areas where the species is less rare. Sun & many clouds, very humid & very warm; these sightings in afternoon.

  • Black Swallowtail x
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail x
  • Cabbage White x
  • Orange Sulphur x
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue x
  • Red-spotted Purple x
  • Hackberry Emperor x
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Dun Skipper x

Jeanette Klodzen

Mill D N Trail to Dog Lake
Salt Lake County, UT

  • Field Crescent 1
  • Mylitta Crescent 1

Ron Smith

Fort De Soto Park
Pinellas County, FL

An abbreviated afternoon survey due to the intensity of the mosquitoes. I checked all the sites where I’ve seen Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak in the past. This is one week after the receiving the major rain and winds from the outer edge of Hurricane Hermine.

  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Barred Yellow 7
  • Eastern Pygmy-Blue 5
  • Cassius Blue 25
  • Ceraunus Blue 15
  • Gulf Fritillary 7
  • Phaon Crescent 6
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 5
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • White Checkered-Skipper 13
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Monk Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Eastern Pygmy-Blue

Ocola Skipper

Monk Skipper

Rich Kelly, Shai Mitra

Elmira
Chemung County, NY

  • Monarch 1

Rich Kelly, Shai Mitra, Patricia Lindsay, Jeff Bolsinger, et alet al

Sperr Memorial Park, Big Flats
Chemung County, NY

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 60
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Viceroy 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

John Heyse

Temelec
Sonoma County, CA

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Acmon Blue 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Woodland Skipper 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Very windy and temps in the upper 80’s.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Red Admiral
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper

Melanie Link Taylor

Residential Butterfly Garden, Apple Valley CAL
San Bernardino County, CA

This butterfly has been a frequent visitor this summer. Late this warm afternoon 90F it favored the Mexican Sunflower and marigolds.

  • Funereal Duskywing 1

Funereal Duskywing

Funereal Duskywing

Jim Wilkinson

Oxford Square
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Monarch 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Sachem 12

Monarch

Gray Hairstreak

Allan R. Loudell

White Clay Creek Preserve
Chester County, PA

Mid-afternoon walk, one hour, temperature: 95 degrees

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 20+
  • Clouded Sulphur 6
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 15+
  • Meadow Fritillary 5
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Question Mark 1
  • Eastern Comma 5
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Least Skipper 30+
  • Sachem 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Harry Zirlin

Ward Pound Ridge
Westchester County, NY

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Clouded Sulphur 7
  • Orange Sulphur 14
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • American Copper 20+
  • White M Hairstreak 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 20+
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 9
  • Pearl Crescent 30+
  • American Lady 1
  • Viceroy 5
  • Appalachian Brown 1
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 12
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Dun Skipper 1

Pat Garner

Hawk Point
Lincoln County, MO

Second sighting of this beauty on our private property. One month and four days after first sighting, thinking it is not the same ind. as seen in Aug. Rare find this far north into MO.

  • Gemmed Satyr 1

Gemmed Satyr

Rich Kelly, Seth Ausubel, Mary Normandia

Blue Mountain Resort
Carbon County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 35
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 7
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 20
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 10
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 6

Rich Kelly

Little Gap at Appalachian Trail on crest of Blue Mountain
Northampton County, PA

  • Cabbage White 40
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Viceroy

Ken Wilson

Roxborough State Park
Douglas County, CO

85 degrees & partly cloudy. Some nectar source was still available but butterfly activity is minimal. Five sulphurs seen, ID not confirmed. Either Orange Sulphur or Clouded Sulphur. Two No ID fritillary seen.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Colorado Hairstreak 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Melissa Blue 3
  • Aphrodite Fritillary 1
  • Hoary Comma 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Uncas Skipper 1

Uncas Skipper

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem

Leslie Romesberg

my native garden on little joe pye weed
York County, PA

sunny 80 degrees 3:45 pm

  • Monarch 1

Jeanette Klodzen

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

All butterflies were seen between 10,400 - 10,520ft

  • Purplish Copper 3
  • Zerene Fritillary 1
  • Field Crescent 2

Chris Blazo

Falling Spring Greenway Trail
Franklin County, PA

A rural spring fed creek that travels through different habitats. The Clouded Skipper was a pure luck find! Ocola Skippers are being found in the county fairly regularly. 77 degrees with no humidity, sunshine and a light breeze.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 40
  • Clouded Sulphur 30
  • Orange Sulphur 45+
  • American Copper 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Question Mark 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Northern Pearly-eye 2
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 11
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Swarthy Skipper 2
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 15
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Sachem 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Ocola Skipper

Clouded Skipper

William D. Beck

Pena Blanca Lake and Ruby Road to California Gulch
Santa Cruz County, AZ

The seep willow patches continue to be awesome!

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Checkered White
  • Southern Dogface
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Mexican Yellow
  • Tailed Orange
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Dainty Sulphur
  • Creamy Stripe-streak 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak common
  • Leda Ministreak abundant
  • Western Pygmy-Blue
  • Marine Blue abundant
  • Ceraunus Blue abundant
  • Reakirt's Blue common
  • Palmer's Metalmark abundant
  • American Snout abundant
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Variegated Fritillary common
  • Bordered Patch common
  • Elf 1
  • Tiny Checkerspot common
  • Elada Checkerspot common
  • Texan Crescent common
  • California Sister 2
  • Red Satyr 2
  • Queen common
  • Dull Firetip common
  • Hammock Skipper common
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Acacia Skipper
  • Funereal Duskywing common
  • Orange Skipperling
  • Pahaska Skipper 1

Creamy Stripe-streak

Elf

Hammock Skipper, Dull Firetip

Mike Reese

Mariner Trail, Two Rivers/Manitowoc
Manitowoc County, WI

Feeding mostly on Rigid Goldenrod.

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 31
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • American Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Common Buckeye 12
  • Monarch 251
  • Fiery Skipper 13
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Red Admiral

Common Buckeye

Monarch

Fiery Skipper

Bo Zaremba

Westport
Bristol County, MA

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White X
  • Clouded Sulphur X
  • Orange Sulphur X
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • American Lady 7
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 10
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Sachem 6
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Sachem

Red-banded Hairstreak

Common Buckeye

Cloudless Sulphur

Jim Egbert

Oyster Bay Rd. Gulf Shores
Baldwin County, AL

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 7
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Sleepy Orange 17
  • Gray Hairstreak 4
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Carolina Satyr 11
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper common
  • Horace's Duskywing 5
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 5
  • Ocola Skipper common

Jean Evoy

Arcadia
DeSoto County, FL

For the past two weeks we have been seeing a lot of action in a nearby small Liatris patch.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail common
  • Zebra Swallowtail common
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail common
  • Spicebush Swallowtail common
  • Palamedes Swallowtail common
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Zebra Heliconian common
  • Phaon Crescent abundant
  • Common Buckeye common
  • White Peacock common
  • Long-tailed Skipper
  • Horace's Duskywing common
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Three-spotted Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Whirlabout
  • Monk Skipper 1

Zebra Swallowtail

Palamedes Swallowtail

Gulf Fritillary

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Rich Kelly, Seth Ausubel

Fiddler's Creek Preserve
Mercer County, NJ

Most plants here were severely drought stressed.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Sachem 3

Rich Kelly, Seth Ausubel

Baldpate Mountain
Mercer County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

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

Rich Kelly, Seth Ausubel, Mary Normandia

Little Gap at Appalachian Trail on crest of Blue Mountain
Carbon County, PA

  • Leonard's Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Jim Wilkinson

Oxford Square, Elkridge
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 10
  • Variegated Fritillary 5
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 20
  • Monarch 12
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Sachem 28

Checkered White

Red Admiral

Michael Drake

Springfiel Township Middle school Butterfly Garden
Montgomery County, PA

74 and sunny

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Peck's Skipper 11
  • Sachem 35

Andrew Block

20 Hancock Ave., Yonkers,
Westchester County, NY

Fresh adult seen on my patio this am.

  • Question Mark 1

Denis C. Quinn

1 mile west of US route 1 at MD/PA line, my home
Chester County, PA

Quite dry here, only nectar sources are Budelia, Mexican Sunflowers, few Mint species, Sunflowers, Buckwheat in bloom, New York Ironweed and some Zinnias. Fiery- Sachem comparison in one pic.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 118
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 14
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 4
  • Monarch 9
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 9
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Common Sootywing 3
  • Least Skipper 18
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 9
  • Sachem 14
  • Zabulon Skipper 8

Fiery Skipper

Sachem

Christopher Leslie

Devereux Creek
Santa Barbara County, CA

These butterflies were flying around and feeding at Plumbago flowers next to bike path near Devereux Creek. Partly cloudy day in the 70’s F.

  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 12
  • Marine Blue 30
  • Gulf Fritillary 1

Gulf Fritillary

Giant Swallowtail

Marine Blue

Cloudless Sulphur

Marine Blue

Cloudless Sulphur

Tom Fiore, Kristine Wallstrom

shore areas - Gerritsen Beach park, F. Bennett Field, & other areas.
Kings County, NY

All photos except Q-Mark by K. Wallstrom; the Little Yellows were all seen at Gerritsen Beach park, a traditional, known location for the species; Cloudless Sulphurs also seen there & one was cooperative for photos on red flowers: that one at F. Bennett Field; a search of the gardens at F.B. Field did not reveal any unexpected species to us. Warm & sunny, south wind.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 15++
  • Cabbage White 8+
  • Orange Sulphur 10+
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4+
  • Little Yellow 6+
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 3+
  • Red Admiral 4+
  • Common Buckeye 3+
  • Monarch 12+
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Sachem 15+

Cloudless Sulphur

Common Sootywing

Checkered White

Checkered White

Little Yellow

Question Mark

Jim Egbert

Roscoe Rd Orange Beach & Graham Creek Nature Preserve Foley
Baldwin County, AL

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail common
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Sleepy Orange 9
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Southern Pearly-eye 1
  • Carolina Satyr common
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper common
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Southern Broken-Dash 3
  • Northern Broken-Dash 5
  • Dun Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper common

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Photo of Common Checkered-Skipper taken late afternoon. Temp 80 degrees, mostly sunny and humid. It was flying around with another of its same type.

  • Cabbage White 7
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2

Common Checkered-Skipper

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem

Curtis A. Lehman

Roaring Run Recreation Area
Armstrong County, PA

Also found several Silver-spotted Skipper carerpillars on Bristly Locust.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 14
  • Clouded Sulphur 9
  • Orange Sulphur 23
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 14
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Question Mark 2
  • Eastern Comma 6
  • Red-spotted Purple 4
  • Viceroy 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 8
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Silver-spotted Skipper caterpillar

Julie Appleget

Tide Swamp Unit Big Bend WMA
Taylor County, FL

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 6
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Queen 10
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 10
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Clouded Skipper 4
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper abundant

Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

Unknown dark grass skipper

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 12
  • Variegated Fritillary 4
  • Common Buckeye 10
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Sachem 20

Fiery Skipper

Gray Hairstreak

Common Buckeye

Jim Wilkinson

Oxford Square, Elkridge
Howard County, MD

Cloudless Sulphurs mating

  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Common Buckeye 8
  • Monarch 4
  • Sachem 10

Cloudless Sulphur

Sandy-Crystal Vaughn

backyard in southeast Houston (Clear Lake City)
Harris County, TX

A yard first! Uncommon visitor to this area (Clear Lake City/Houston/Harris County). Off-white female Large Orange Sulphur. She nectared on Duranta and Jamaica (blue) Porterweed; both plants from a Cockrell Butterfly Center plant sale.

  • Large Orange Sulphur 1

Large Orange Sulphur

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem

Denis C. Quinn

SW of Nottingham- 1 mile W of US route 1 on Mason/Dixon
Chester County, PA

Yesterday was similar to the day before, however today the main nectar source, before noon turned to a strip of Buckwheat with: Bees, Wasps, Butterflies and even Hummingbirds trying this new taste sensation here.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 107
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 7
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 4
  • Monarch 12
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 11
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Common Sootywing 2
  • Least Skipper 14
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 9
  • Sachem 8
  • Zabulon Skipper 7

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest and my home
Sarpy County, NE

Cloudy and 65 degrees. The monarchs were really out today but very few other butterflies

  • Cabbage White 19
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 32

Michael Drake

Morris Arboretum
Philadelphia County, PA

80, sunny, no wind - perfect!

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 67
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 9
  • Variegated Fritillary 5
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Red-spotted Admiral 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 6
  • Least Skipper 41
  • Peck's Skipper 32
  • Sachem 215

Mike Marcelli

Villanova
Delaware County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Edward Perry IV

Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL

  • Zebra Swallowtail 45
  • Black Swallowtail 7
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 6
  • Cloudless Sulphur 19
  • Barred Yellow 3
  • Little Yellow 4
  • Sleepy Orange 7
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Pearl Crescent 15
  • Common Buckeye 21
  • White Peacock 10
  • Viceroy 8
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Georgia Satyr 1
  • Queen 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 3
  • Confused Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Zarucco Duskywing 19
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Sachem 1
  • Arogos Skipper 28
  • Delaware Skipper 6
  • Aaron's Skipper 2
  • Palmetto Skipper 16
  • Monk Skipper 2
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 6
  • Brazilian Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 3

Confused Cloudywing

Aaron's Skipper

Zebra Swallowtail

Curtis A. Lehman

West Penn Trail, Saltsburg.
Indiana County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Clouded Sulphur 14
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • Meadow Fritillary 7
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Question Mark 4
  • Eastern Comma 3
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 4
  • Northern Pearly-eye 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 8
  • Least Skipper 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper

David H. Bartholomew

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

Coyotebush (Baccharis pilularis) is just starting to come into bloom, may be more attractive next week. Yellow star thistle and a small yellow composite are the main nectar sources at present.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Acmon Blue 6
  • Coronis Fritillary 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • California Sister 3
  • Common Ringlet 10
  • Mournful Duskywing 1
  • Woodland Skipper 36
  • Umber Skipper 2

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 25
  • Variegated Fritillary 8
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 18
  • Monarch 12
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Sachem 30

Variegated Fritillary

Painted Lady

Brett Badeaux

Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve, Mira mesa
San Diego County, CA

High 75F. Rather weedy and heavily traveled site. It was nice to see many Pygmies and Eufala which I don’t see in most areas I go to.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 20+
  • Gray Hairstreak 4
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 50+
  • Marine Blue 6
  • Fatal Metalmark 7
  • Mormon Metalmark 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Lorquin's Admiral 12
  • California Sister 25+
  • Mournful Duskywing 5
  • Funereal Duskywing 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 7
  • Fiery Skipper 7
  • Woodland Skipper 80+
  • Umber Skipper 4
  • Eufala Skipper 6

Eufala Skipper

Western Pygmy-Blue

Umber Skipper

Mike Reese

private land near Puchyan Prairie
Green Lake County, WI

3:30-4:30. 70 degrees and sunny

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 6
  • Monarch 1

Denis C. Quinn

SW of Nottingham, PA
Chester County, PA

Significant drop in numbers of butterflies and temperature here today.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 88
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 11
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Monarch 10
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 12
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Least Skipper 11
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Sachem 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 4

Jim Springer

Horseshoe Bend Park
Hunterdon County, NJ

11:00am-2:30pm, 73F, sunny
I was able to photograph all 4 White M Hairstreaks, all on Late-flowering Thoroughwort.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 160
  • Clouded Sulphur 25
  • Orange Sulphur 35
  • American Copper 1
  • White M Hairstreak 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 12
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 15
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 7
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Sachem 1

White M Hairstreak

Sachem

Gray Hairstreak

Common Checkered-Skipper

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1

Andrew Block

Bronx River Pathway, Valhalla to N. White Plains,
Westchester County, NY

Also had one female white form sulphur. Most of the species were pretty fresh looking.

  • Cabbage White 7
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Peck's Skipper 4

Alan Wells

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly Odonate and Butterfly count. Survey with Della Wells and Nancy Slowik.

09:30 AM to 12:30 PM; air temperature ranged from 61 to 65 F; dew point temperature ranged from 54 to 58 F; high wind speed 5 to 10 mph from ESE.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • American Copper 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Pearl Crescent 11
  • American Lady 1
  • Monarch 1

American Lady

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem

Raymond Osmolski

East on Peotone, Illinois
Will County, IL

There are lots of Monarchs in the area right now. Working in a Hay field and they are all over the place

  • Monarch 32

John Heyse

Mt. Hamilton
Santa Clara County, CA

80F with Dave Bartholomew, David Rawlinson, Nancy Asquith

  • Orange Sulphur 16
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Acmon Blue 3
  • Coronis Fritillary 15
  • American Lady 4
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 14
  • California Sister 4
  • Common Ringlet 8
  • Great Basin Wood-Nymph 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Woodland Skipper 100+

Orange Sulphur

Coronis Fritillary

Woodland Skipper

Common Buckeye

Jeanette Klodzen

Red Pine Lake (Little Cottonwood Canyon)
Salt Lake County, UT

7600-9600ft

Saw coming down from the lake.

  • Hoary Comma 1

Dennis Holmes

My yard in Redding
Shasta County, CA

The Gulf Frit was a nice yard sighting for this far north - although it is 98 degrees here today.

  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 8

Gulf Fritillary

Gulf Fritillary

Michael Drake

ASpringfield Middle School Butterfly Garden
Montgomery County, PA

Cooler day - some very worn looking Sachems and many mint fresh Peck’s

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Peck's Skipper 26
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Sachem 21

Mark and Holly Salvato

Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL

  • Zebra Swallowtail 27
  • Black Swallowtail 24
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 9
  • Cloudless Sulphur 25
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 15
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 25
  • White Peacock 10
  • Viceroy 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Confused Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 7
  • Zarucco Duskywing 12
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 6
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Arogos Skipper 91
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Palmetto Skipper 30
  • Twin-spot Skipper 8
  • Ocola Skipper 12

Zarucco Duskywing

Palmetto Skipper

Confused Cloudywing

Arogos Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Edward Perry IV

Bull Creek Wildlife Management Area
Osceola County, FL

  • Zebra Swallowtail 32
  • Black Swallowtail 11
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 8
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Common Buckeye 9
  • White Peacock 6
  • Viceroy 8
  • Queen 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 7
  • Southern Cloudywing 2
  • Confused Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 4
  • Zarucco Duskywing 25
  • Swarthy Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 14
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 8
  • Southern Broken-Dash 6
  • Arogos Skipper 225
  • Delaware Skipper 4
  • Aaron's Skipper 2
  • Palmetto Skipper 8
  • Twin-spot Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper 10

Long-tailed Skipper

Silver-spotted Skipper

Confused Cloudywing

Twin-spot Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Mike Freeman

Central Park (Manhattan)
New York County, NY

Found in Conservatory Garden’s French garden area, in the morning. Photo by Mike Freeman, submitted to Sightings by Tom Fiore - seen & photo’d only by Freeman, only on the 17th. (prior records for this species in this park total more than ten, over many years.)

  • Ocola Skipper 1

Ocola Skipper

Harry Zirlin

Ward Pound Ridge
Westchester County, NY

Black Swallowtail was laying eggs on fresh growth Queen Anne’s Lace. Great Spangleds very worn. See image

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 20+
  • Clouded Sulphur 20+
  • Orange Sulphur 20+
  • American Copper 10
  • Gray Hairstreak 4
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 30+
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 5
  • Pearl Crescent 10+
  • American Lady 4
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Viceroy 6
  • Common Ringlet 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 10+
  • Peck's Skipper 2

Great Spangled Fritillary

Rebecca Smith

Edwin B. Forsythe NWR Oceanville, NJ
Atlantic County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Sachem 6

Sachem

Orange Sulphur

Roger Rittmaster

42 William Glen Drive, Camden
Knox County, ME

Maine state record!

  • Ocola Skipper 1

Ocola Skipper

Ocola Skipper

Ken Wilson

Mount Laguna
San Diego County, CA

Sunny, 85 degrees with very gusty winds.

  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Dotted Blue 1
  • Acmon Blue 1
  • Mormon Metalmark 8
  • Northern White-Skipper 2
  • Juba Skipper 6
  • Woodland Skipper common

Juba Skipper

Ken Wilson

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
San Diego County, CA

Sunny, 94 degrees, breezy to gusty.

  • Western Pygmy-Blue 1
  • Mormon Metalmark 1
  • Palmer's Metalmark 3
  • Eufala Skipper 1

Palmer's Metalmark

Mormon Metalmark

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma
  • Monarch
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper

Denis C. Quinn

1 mile west of US route 1 on Mason/Dixon line, 19362
Chester County, PA

Early in Lancaster County, PA I only had 2 Monarchs, later at home in Chester County PA (7 miles distance) it became warmer with the sun shining on and off again, bringing out the butterflies. Again, Fiery Skipper nectaring on Buckwheat blossoms

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 88
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 11
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Monarch 9
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 15
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Common Sootywing 2
  • Least Skipper 16
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 7
  • Sachem 12
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Fiery Skipper

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Common Checkered-Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Matt Juskowich

Greencove Wetlands
Washington County, PA

  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Northern Pearly-eye 1
  • Monarch 1

Northern Pearly-eye

Matt Juskowich

Dutch Fork Lake
Washington County, PA

2 Monarch Caterpillars found on milkweed plant onside of the road

  • Monarch 2

Monarch caterpillar

Monarch caterpillar

Andrew Block

Brigantine N.W.R., Oceanville,
Atlantic County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 6+
  • Clouded Sulphur 3+
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5+
  • Common Buckeye common
  • Monarch 2

Tom Palmer

Marion Creek
Polk County, FL

Roadsides were more productive than woodlands

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Barred Yellow 34
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 60
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 7
  • Phaon Crescent 9
  • Pearl Crescent 8
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 14
  • Viceroy 1
  • Carolina Satyr 4
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 2
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Southern Skipperling 24
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 29

White Peacock

Southern Skipperling

Allan R. Loudell

Along Dutch Neck Road, just south of the C & D Canal
New Castle County, DE

1-hour walk, 3—4 p.m., mostly sunny & 80 degrees.

2nd brood of Bronze Coppers; of those which opened their wings, all males.

One episode of three butterflies chasing one another in a circle: Two Bronze Coppers & one Common Buckeye.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Bronze Copper 11
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 40+
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 5

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Monarch 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Sachem 15

Zebra Swallowtail

Jim Wilkinson

Oxford Square, Elkridge
Howard County, MD

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 30
  • Variegated Fritillary 8
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 35
  • Monarch 18
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Sachem 6

Painted Lady

Cloudless Sulphur

Michael Drake

Dixon Meadow Preserve, Whitemarsh
Montgomery County, PA

Warm, overcast, breezy.
This area is an overflow basin - mostly dried up.
Crescent explosion.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 32
  • Clouded Sulphur 37
  • Orange Sulphur 23
  • Pearl Crescent 40
  • Monarch 3
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Sachem 2

Michael Diederich

Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Pound Ridge
Westchester County, NY

  • Cabbage White 14
  • Clouded Sulphur 23
  • Orange Sulphur 30
  • American Copper 14
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 24
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 30
  • American Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Viceroy 3
  • Common Ringlet 3
  • Monarch 8
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Karlo and Alison Mirth

Kissena Corridor Park
Queens County, NY

Sightings made between 2:00 - 3:00 PM.

  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Orange Sulphur 15
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 10
  • Pearl Crescent 12
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Common Checkered-Skipper

Rebecca Smith

Winterthur Gardens, Wilmington
New Castle County, DE

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Silver-spotted Skipper

Gray Hairstreak

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Cabbage White

Tom Fiore, Mike Freeman

Central Park (Manhattan), mostly in northern end of park
New York County, NY

A small surge of Fiery Skippers for over a week here. On the 17th, an Ocola Skipper was found by Mike Freeman in Central Park, for which a report with his photo is in these sightings. There are more than 10 prior records of that species from Central Park in Manhattan.
An attempt to find one there again on the 18th was not successful.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 15+
  • Orange Sulphur 4+
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8+
  • American Snout 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Question Mark 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • American Lady 3
  • Red Admiral 4+
  • Monarch 25+
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 6+
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Sachem 30+

Steven Rosenthal

Point Pelee National Park
Essex County, incl. Windsor & Twp of Pelee, ON

Six hour visit after a business trip, park was beautiful, but diversity and abundance were lower than I was expecting. Still, the sight of monarchs “launching” southward from the tip of the point was impressive.

Also: one unidentified anglewing

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White abundant
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 3-4
  • Viceroy 4
  • Monarch 44
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Suzanne Simpson

Windsor, Ontario 1600 block of George Avenue
Essex County, incl. Windsor & Twp of Pelee, ON

Saw several in my neighbours backyard.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3

Chris Herz

Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Meadow only
Chester County, PA

Humid and 85 degrees, partly cloudy. One dark female E. Tiger ST, and one white form sulphur sp., one anglewing sp.

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 37
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 8
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • American Snout 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • American Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 13
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 16
  • Least Skipper 6
  • Peck's Skipper 8
  • Sachem 20

Bill & Nancy Callahan

Northampton Comm.Garden
Hampshire County, MA

Cloudy,humid day in 70’s 2:30-4:00 PM
Rare MA sighting of Checkered White

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cabbage White 50+
  • Clouded Sulphur 8
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • American Copper 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • American Lady 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Checkered White

Checkered White

Checkered White

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

4 butterflies flew briefly betweeen rain showers.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Monarch
  • Fiery Skipper

William D. Beck

Peppersauce Canyon and Oracle State Park
Pinal County, AZ

Calm, hot and sunny, a perfect butterfly day!

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Checkered White
  • Southern Dogface
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Mexican Yellow
  • Tailed Orange
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Dainty Sulphur
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak common
  • Leda Ministreak common
  • Western Pygmy-Blue
  • Marine Blue
  • Ceraunus Blue common
  • Reakirt's Blue common
  • Spring Azure
  • Rita Blue
  • Mormon Metalmark common
  • Palmer's Metalmark common
  • American Snout
  • Variegated Fritillary common
  • Bordered Patch
  • Tiny Checkerspot
  • Elada Checkerspot
  • Texan Crescent common
  • Painted Lady
  • Tropical Buckeye 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • California Sister 2
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Empress Leilia
  • Red Satyr
  • Queen
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Desert Cloudywing 1
  • Acacia Skipper
  • Arizona Powdered-Skipper 3
  • Funereal Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Common Sootywing
  • Orange Skipperling common

Desert Cloudywing

Rita Blue

Gray Hairstreak

Jim Wilkinson

Woodmore
Prince George's County, MD

This Snout perched on our car antenna for several minutes.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1

American Snout

Ken Wilson

Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego
San Diego County, CA

72 degrees, partly cloudy, breezy.

  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 1
  • Marine Blue 5
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Monarch 2
  • Fiery Skipper 6

Melanie Link Taylor

Residential Butterfly Garden, Apple Valley CAL
San Bernardino County, CA

This is a new butterfly to me, very pretty. It is very small, rubbing its wings together, flitting on native plants, on a warm afternoon (90F)

  • Western Pygmy-Blue 1

Chris Blazo

Mennohaven Gardens
Franklin County, PA

The Long-tailed Skipper stayed in view for about 10 minutes until it flew up into a maple tree.

  • Cabbage White 12
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 6
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 4
  • Pearl Crescent 8
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Sachem 4
  • Dun Skipper 1

Monarch

Long-tailed Skipper

Long-tailed Skipper

Dotty Moore

Bear Hollow Zoo Butterfly Garden @ Memorial Park
Clarke County, GA

Approximately 7 Monarch caterpillars about a week old no adult Monarch sighted.

Lisa Quartararo

Woodbridge Tswp (backyard)
Middlesex County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Monarch 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Eastern Comma
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Ocola Skipper

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Sunny afternoon and a little humid. Temp around 85 when the monarch visited the milkweeds.

  • Cabbage White 6
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Kathy Barylski

Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship, Butterfly Alley area
Loudoun County, VA

mid-80s; m sunny. Walked about 4 miles in 3 hours

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 10-12
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 16-18
  • Cabbage White 55+
  • Clouded Sulphur 15-20
  • Orange Sulphur 40+
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Sleepy Orange 40+
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 8
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 200+
  • American Snout 5
  • Variegated Fritillary 50+
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 6
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 70+
  • Eastern Comma 3
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 50+
  • Monarch 140+
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6-8
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 15-20
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Sachem 20+

American Snout

Sleepy Orange

Pearl Crescent

Monarch

Common Buckeye

Beth Polvino

Yellowstone National Park - Grand Tour Rd Pullover above Mammoth Hot Springs
Park County, WY

I was excited to find 8 species of butterflies. Snow on 9/13/16 and today 80 degrees, sunny with about winds 15 MPH. I saw another Sulphur species that I wasn’t able to ID.

  • Checkered White 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Purplish Copper 1
  • Green Comma 2
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell 1
  • Red Admiral 1

Purplish Copper

Milbert's Tortoiseshell

Green Comma

Beth Polvino

Yellowstone National Park Blacktail Plateau
Park County, WY

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Green Comma 1

Scott Fisher

Crosswicks Greenway Province Line Rd
Monmouth County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 30
  • Clouded Sulphur 8
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • White M Hairstreak 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 5
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 20
  • Pearl Crescent 100
  • Question Mark 1
  • Common Buckeye 7
  • Viceroy 6
  • Monarch 10
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 20
  • Least Skipper 20
  • Sachem 20

Pearl Crescent

White M Hairstreak

Common Checkered-Skipper

Red-banded Hairstreak

White M Hairstreak

Question Mark

Bo Zaremba

Northampton
Hampshire County, MA

Two MA lifers for me in one day!

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cabbage White abundant
  • Clouded Sulphur abundant
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • American Lady 2
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Ocola Skipper

Common Checkered-Skipper

Long-tailed Skipper

Checkered White

Jeanette Klodzen

Willow Heights Lake Trail (Big Cottonwood Canyon)
Salt Lake County, UT

4:00-5:30pm

7800-8400 ft

  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Field Crescent 2

Curtis A. Lehman

Butler/Freeport Community Trail, Sarver to Butler.
Butler County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 42
  • Clouded Sulphur 54
  • Orange Sulphur 100+
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Meadow Fritillary 17
  • Pearl Crescent 48
  • Question Mark 2
  • Eastern Comma 4
  • Gray Comma 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Viceroy 4
  • Monarch 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5

Jim Wilkinson

Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

snout captured by an ambush bug

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • American Snout 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Sachem 20
  • Ocola Skipper 3

Ocola Skipper

American Snout

White M Hairstreak

Melanie Link Taylor

Huntington Botanical Garden, San Marino (Herb Garden)
Los Angeles County, CA

This Monarch was in the herb section of the expansive gardens on a mild autumn day (75F)

  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Andrew Block

Pelham Bay Park, Bronx,
Bronx County, NY

All seen along the trail going along the west side of the dump.

  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur 7+
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue common
  • Pearl Crescent common
  • Monarch 4

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Ocola Skipper

Bill & Nancy Callahan

Stratford Point Audubon
Fairfield County, CT

Beautiful day.sunnyin the low 80’s
Lifer -Little Yellow

  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 20
  • Clouded Sulphur 40+
  • Orange Sulphur 50+
  • Cloudless Sulphur 6
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 20+
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 9
  • American Lady 4
  • Common Buckeye 12
  • Monarch 20+
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Sachem 12
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Little Yellow

Common Buckeye

Variegated Fritillary

Cloudless Sulphur

Little Yellow

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Cabbage White

John Gorey

Homer AK
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK

Sunny day after a storm.

  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell 1

Milbert's Tortoiseshell

Scott Fisher

Crosswicks Creek Greenway Province Line Rd
Monmouth County, NJ

  • Little Yellow 1

Ashley Gardner

Huckleberry Trail, Christiansburg, VA
Montgomery County, VA

Coal Miner’s Heritage Trail Loop

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent + s

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Orange Sulphur

Pearl Crescent

Cabbage White

Pearl Crescent

Great Spangled Fritillary

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper

Kathy Barylski

Lilypons Water Gardens
Frederick County, MD

11:10 am - 2:40 pm; temps from mid-70s to mid-80s; mostly sunny

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 50+
  • Clouded Sulphur 30+
  • Orange Sulphur 180+
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 40+
  • Variegated Fritillary 50+
  • Meadow Fritillary 5-8
  • Pearl Crescent 120+
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Common Buckeye 30+
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 12-15
  • Monarch 15-17
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 17-20
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 40+
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 50+
  • Least Skipper 9-12
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Peck's Skipper 8-10
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Sachem 60+
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Viceroy

Matthew Ceplo

Rockland Country Club
Rockland County, NY

sunny and warm. mid 80”s

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White abundant
  • Clouded Sulphur 10
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 8
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Peck's Skipper 9
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

American Lady

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Brett Badeaux

Batiquitos Lagoon
San Diego County, CA

Low 70s, partly cloudy and breezy. Unfortunately the trail here is far away from most of the water.

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Marine Blue 3
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Wandering Skipper 15

Wandering Skipper

Tom Palmer

State Road 471
Polk County, FL

Most of roadside is not being mowed. Lots of Bidens etc.

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Giant Swallowtail 5
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 12
  • Barred Yellow 28
  • Little Yellow 7
  • Sleepy Orange 16
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 16
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 43
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 7
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Long-tailed Skipper 9
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 6
  • Zarucco Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 9
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 5
  • Fiery Skipper 36
  • Whirlabout 11
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 3
  • Dun Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Brazilian Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 20

Barred Yellow

Gulf Fritillary

Alan Wells

Lily Pond, Harriman State Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly Odonate and Butterfly count. Survey with Della Wells and Nancy Slowik.

09:30 AM to 01:00 PM; air temperature ranged from 67 to 85 F; dew point temperature ranged from 53 to 59 F; high wind speed 3 to 7 mph from S.

  • Cabbage White 7
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • American Copper 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 9
  • Pearl Crescent 10
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Common Checkered-Skipper

Edward Perry IV

Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL

Hot, sunny, humid.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 14
  • Black Swallowtail 10
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 11
  • Cloudless Sulphur 38
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Little Yellow 11
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Common Buckeye 20
  • White Peacock 5
  • Viceroy 6
  • Georgia Satyr 1
  • Queen 3
  • Long-tailed Skipper 3
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Zarucco Duskywing 43
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 12
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 7
  • Southern Broken-Dash 6
  • Arogos Skipper 180
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Aaron's Skipper 2
  • Palmetto Skipper 22
  • Berry's Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 8
  • Brazilian Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 11

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Berry's Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Oxford Square, Elkridge
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 24
  • Variegated Fritillary 5
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 28
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Sachem 20

Painted Lady

Andrew Block

Trout Brook Valley Preserve, Easton,
Fairfield County, CT

  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur common
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent common
  • Monarch 3

Jim Rodgers

Nearly Native Nursery 776 Mc bride rd Fayetteville Ga 30215
Fayette County, GA

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  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 21
  • Cloudless Sulphur 18
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 20
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • American Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 7
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Viceroy 4
  • Little Wood-Satyr 5
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Long-tailed Skipper 5
  • Hoary Edge 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 8

Great Purple Hairstreak

Red-spotted Purple

Variegated Fritillary

Cloudless Sulphur

Common Buckeye

Giant Swallowtail

'Summer' Spring Azure

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

American Lady

Clouded Sulphur

Great Purple Hairstreak

Viceroy

Pearl Crescent

Harry Zirlin

Mount Loretto
Richmond County, NY

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 8
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • American Snout 1
  • Pearl Crescent 20+
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 20+
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 6
  • Sachem 8

David H. Bartholomew

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

11:00-4:30, breezy but sunny, 75 degrees.

Surprise of the day was a Northern White Skipper, I rarely see them here. The pattern on the Woodland Skipper pictured is unusually crisp.

  • Acmon Blue 1
  • Mylitta Crescent 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • California Sister 5
  • Common Ringlet 5
  • Mournful Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Northern White-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Woodland Skipper 40
  • Umber Skipper 1

Woodland Skipper

Northern White-Skipper

William D. Beck

California Gulch off Ruby Road
Santa Cruz County, AZ

Everywhere I turned there were Elves today!

  • Pipevine Swallowtail common
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Checkered White
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Mexican Yellow common
  • Tailed Orange
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Dainty Sulphur common
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Leda Ministreak
  • Marine Blue
  • Ceraunus Blue
  • Reakirt's Blue
  • Fatal Metalmark 2
  • Palmer's Metalmark common
  • American Snout common
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Bordered Patch abundant
  • Elf common
  • Tiny Checkerspot abundant
  • Elada Checkerspot common
  • Texan Crescent
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Tropical Buckeye common
  • White Peacock 1
  • California Sister 2
  • Empress Leilia
  • Red Satyr 3
  • Monarch 3
  • Queen abundant
  • Dull Firetip common
  • White-striped Longtail 2
  • Dorantes Longtail 3
  • Acacia Skipper 1
  • Funereal Duskywing common
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Common Sootywing
  • Orange Skipperling common
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Carus Skipper 1

Carus Skipper

White Peacock

Elf

Elf

Denis C. Quinn

1 mile west of US route 1 on Mason/Dixon line, 19362
Chester County, PA

Recent 1.6 inchs of rain have helped nectar sources improve, along with my patch of;Cannas, sunflowers, buckwheat and Mexican Sunflowers, etc, however Butterfly bush is being neglected now.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 12
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 12
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Least Skipper 11
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Sachem 10
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Sachem

Peck's Skipper

Clouded Sulphur

John Heyse

Suisun Marsh - wildlife area and Peytonia Slough
Solano County, CA

75-78F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 16
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 12
  • Mylitta Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Monarch 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Sandhill Skipper 2
  • Yuma Skipper 2

Orange Sulphur

Yuma Skipper

Michael Drake

Springfield Middle School Butterfly Garden
Montgomery County, PA

Apparently the same beat-up Buckeye has been hanging around the garden for at least a week.

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Peck's Skipper 7
  • Sachem 15

Michael Drake

Morris Arboretum
Philadelphia County, PA

Hot and sunny, no wind.
An apparent cabbage White male (black wing tips) mating with a Clouded Sulphur. No picture I’m afraid. How often does this happen?

  • Cabbage White 43
  • Clouded Sulphur 8
  • Orange Sulphur 11
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 6
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 9
  • Sachem 96

Brett Badeaux

Wash behind the Dripping Springs Campground in the Agua Tibia Wilderness
San Diego County, CA

Mostly sunny. A 3 hour search for Great Purple Hairstreak and Electra Buckmoth resulted in very little of interest.

  • Fatal Metalmark 4
  • Mormon Metalmark 100+
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Mournful Duskywing 3
  • Woodland Skipper 4

Common Buckeye

Metalmarks

Raven Anthony Squire

3rd Street & Palisade Avenue in Washington Park
Hudson County, NJ

Monarchs seen flying around and nectaring upon white Butterfly Bush.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Monarch 6

Steven Rosenthal

Lido Preserve, just west of Pt Lookout NY
Nassau County, NY

one hour, 75 degrees, sunny. The cloudless sulphur stuck around for about two minutes which is a long time for them to linger in one spot up here, then headed east….

  • Cabbage White common
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Question Mark 1-2
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 3

Steven Rosenthal

north side of Fireman's Memorial Park, Point Lookout NY
Nassau County, NY

about an hour, 75 degrees, sunny. The cloudless sulphur was around the whole time, and quite possibly is the same one seen earlier at Lido Preserve which is just to the west.

The south side of this area has been bulldozed down to bare dirt/sand since my last visit, which may explain why the buckeyes were where they were; 4 were on one scraggly weed at one time- a mated pair and two ‘onlookers’, the most I have seen in one spot at one time in the NE.

  • Checkered White 1
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Clouded Sulphur 2-3
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Monarch 2

Scott Fisher

Crosswicks Creek Greenway Province Line Rd Upper Freehold
Monmouth County, NJ

  • Little Yellow 2

Christopher Leslie

Lake Hemet North Shore
Riverside County, CA

Many Melissa Blues landing on grass in area with California Buckwheat, yellow flowering lotus, and sand asters on North shoreline of Lake Hemet. Sunny day in the 80’s F with breezes.

  • Melissa Blue 12
  • Lorquin's Admiral 1
  • Umber Skipper 1

Umber Skipper

Umber Skipper

Melissa Blue

Melissa Blue

Melissa Blue

Melissa Blue

Melissa Blue

Mike Reese, Bob Bergen

Wautoma
Waushara County, WI

I was at Bob’s house when he noticed a swallowtail flying around his backyard. To my amazement it a Giant Swallowtail, only the 4th Giant Swallowtail I have seen in Waushara County since 2000.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1

Mark and Holly Salvato

Turkey Creek Sanctuary, Palm Bay
Brevard County, FL

  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Cassius Blue
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Julia Heliconian 2
  • Zebra Heliconian
  • White Peacock
  • Long-tailed Skipper
  • Three-spotted Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1

Julia Heliconian

Mark and Holly Salvato

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville
Brevard County, FL

  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Ceraunus Blue
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Mangrove Buckeye
  • White Peacock
  • Long-tailed Skipper
  • Salt Marsh Skipper
  • Obscure Skipper

Salt Marsh Skipper

Ken Wilson

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
San Diego County, CA

Sunny, 86 degrees, breezy at times. The deserts of San Diego County received its first rain recently since last winter. This resulted in quite an increase in activity compared to my last visit there, one week ago.

  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Leda Ministreak 5
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 2
  • Dotted Blue 1
  • Mormon Metalmark 2
  • Palmer's Metalmark 3
  • Mojave Sootywing 7
  • California Giant-Skipper 4

Mormon Metalmark

Dotted Blue

California Giant-Skipper

William D. Beck

FR 61 Duquesne Road, Nogales to Harshaw, Patagonia Mts
Santa Cruz County, AZ

Cloudy and cooler

  • Checkered White
  • Southern Dogface
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Tailed Orange
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Dainty Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Leda Ministreak
  • Marine Blue
  • Ceraunus Blue
  • Reakirt's Blue
  • Fatal Metalmark
  • American Snout
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Bordered Patch
  • Elf
  • Tiny Checkerspot
  • Elada Checkerspot
  • Texan Crescent
  • California Sister
  • Empress Leilia
  • Queen
  • Funereal Duskywing
  • Arizona Giant-Skipper 1

Arizona Giant-Skipper

Jeanette Klodzen

White Rock Trail - Antelope Island
Davis County, UT

The inner loop.

  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Eastern Comma
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper

Jim Wilkinson

Oxford Square, Elkridge
Howard County, MD

  • Cabbage White 8
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 12
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 30
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Common Buckeye 15
  • Monarch 4
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Sachem 15

Little Yellow

Edward Perry IV

Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL

Sunny, hot, humid. Bow Hunting Season open. Major nectar sources are Rayless Sunflower, Tall Elephant’s Foot, Vanilla Leaf, Bidens sp.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 23
  • Black Swallowtail 9
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 16
  • Cloudless Sulphur 27
  • Little Yellow 37
  • Sleepy Orange 13
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 24
  • White Peacock 12
  • Viceroy 6
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Georgia Satyr 3
  • Queen 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 4
  • Dorantes Longtail 2
  • Southern Cloudywing 3
  • Confused Cloudywing 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Zarucco Duskywing 46
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 10
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Arogos Skipper 223
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Aaron's Skipper 2
  • Palmetto Skipper 23
  • Berry's Skipper 4
  • Dusted Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 12
  • Ocola Skipper 11

Arogos Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Arogos habitat

Berry's Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Joanne Langabee

my home
Sarpy County, NE

early this morning around 9 am, sunny around 70. We have been having a record number of monarchs in our back yard. One day saw over 50. They have been feeding on zinnia, aster, dahlia, lantana and butterfly bush

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Painted Lady 9
  • Monarch 30
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest
Sarpy County, NE

It was 75 degrees, started out sunny then turned cloudy, windy

  • Cabbage White 24
  • Orange Sulphur 30
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 9
  • American Snout 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Viceroy 3
  • Monarch 12
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 1

American Snout

Orange Sulphur

Viceroy

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Red Admiral, Viceroy

Variegated Fritillary

Red Admiral

Pearl Crescent

Common Buckeye

Pearl Crescent

Curtis A. Lehman

Panhandle Trail
Allegheny County, PA

  • Cabbage White 14
  • Clouded Sulphur 16
  • Orange Sulphur 22
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 8
  • Eastern Comma 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4

Melanie Weiss

Lake Tipsoo, Mt. Rainier National Park
Pierce County, WA

The temperature was in the low 60s and sunny. Butterflies were still flying on this beautiful day at this high altitude. The most abundant species we saw was the ‘Anna’s’ Northern Blue, male and female, a very common northwest butterfly.

  • Mariposa Copper 5
  • Northern Blue
  • Mormon Fritillary 3
  • Red Admiral 1

'Anna's' Northern Blue

'Anna's' Northern Blue

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Red-banded Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Great Spangled Fritillary
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Question Mark
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper

Bart Jones

Eagle Lake WMA
Shelby County, TN

Two hours spent this afternoon. Eagle Lake is one of the most reliable sites in the state for Dainty Sulphurs and Phaon Crescents. Goatweed Leafwings were a bit of a surprise this late in the season.

  • Orange Sulphur
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Little Yellow
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Dainty Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure
  • American Snout
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Phaon Crescent
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma
  • Common Buckeye
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Viceroy
  • Goatweed Leafwing
  • Hackberry Emperor
  • Tawny Emperor
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Common Sootywing
  • Least Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Ocola Skipper

Cloudless Sulphur

Dainty Sulphur

Goatweed Leafwing

Andrew Block

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

  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2

Allan R. Loudell

University of Delaware Botanic Gardens, south Newark
New Castle County, DE

45-minute walk, late afternoon

  • Cabbage White 20+
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 10
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Monarch 4
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 6
  • Peck's Skipper 5
  • Sachem 15+
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Allan R. Loudell

Along Dutch Neck Road, just south of the C & D Canal
New Castle County, DE

Bronze Coppers still all males, based on those which opened their wings

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Bronze Copper 15
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 15+

Allan R. Loudell

Wawa convenience store wall, along Route 40, Glasgow - south of Newark
New Castle County, DE

Orange Sulphur on base of curb below Rustic Sphinx moth, Manduca rustica, on wall, 8 a.m. Actually, the Rustic Sphinx moth is a “lifer” for me, considered uncommon here, a stray from further south.

  • Orange Sulphur 1

Michael Diederich

Pound Ridge Reservation, Pound Ridge
Westchester County, NY

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM.

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 8
  • Orange Sulphur 9
  • American Copper 4
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Viceroy 1
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Monarch 2

Bill Berthet

Three Lakes and Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL

Arogos Skipper only survey FNAI S1 at Bull Creek WMA
High 80’s winds 10-15 MPH Very Cloudy Thunder Storm ended survey Start 3:00 end 3:50 walked 8/10th of a mile along west side of west loop road All Arogos perched on Rayless Sunflower total counted 135
Photos of six and seven Arogos were taken at Three Lakes WMA earlier in the day total Arogos observed at Three Lakes WMA 17

  • Arogos Skipper 152

Arogos Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper

John Drummond

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx County, NY

I knew this to be a tropical species; could not believe it until I looked it up. Only one individual.

  • Zebra Heliconian 1

Zebra Heliconian

Zebra Heliconian

Vicki DeLoach

Etowah River Park
Cherokee County, GA

I’ve never seen this many Checkered White’s at one location (had only seen one this season before today). Also saw 2 dark swallowtails at a distance - probable Spicebush. Noticeably missing were Orange sulphurs which have had two very weak seasons in a row. Pearl crescents & Checkered skippers have been unusually scarce this season.

  • Checkered White 4
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 15
  • Little Yellow 4
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 12
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Common Buckeye 15
  • Viceroy 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 20

John Lampkin

Triple Creek Preserve
Hillsborough County, FL

With Jean Evoy & Robert Epstein
9:30-11:30; High 80’s & humid
Quick scouting for upcoming Sarasota County Butterfly Club (NABA) field trip.
Silver-spotted Skippers are uncommon here.
The hairstreak shows us that the “wiggle the butt” strategy to fool predators works! One can also see a glimpse of the blue topside.
Cloudless Sulphur caterpillar is feeding on the non-native septic weed, Senna occidentalis.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 18
  • Sleepy Orange 13
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 2
  • Carolina Satyr 15
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 6
  • Horace's Duskywing 17
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 5
  • Southern Broken-Dash 4
  • Monk Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 3

Silver-spotted Skipper

Cloudless Sulphur caterpillar

White M Hairstreak

Jim Wilkinson

New Bridge Road
Dorchester County, MD

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 12
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Common Buckeye 11
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 4
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Dun Skipper 1

Great Purple Hairstreak

Cloudless Sulphur

Viceroy

Great Purple Hairstreak

Christa Wilkerson

Valley Center
San Diego County, CA

Enjoying a magnificent monarch on my milkweed today

  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Ashley Gardner

7315 Burkwood Circle
Roanoke County, VA

  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Monarch

Jim Egbert

Bon Secour NWR
Baldwin County, AL

Migratory butterflies are beginning to pile up here on the north gulf coast.The fall flowers coming into their peck just in time to get fatten up before they start the next leg of their trip.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 9
  • Little Yellow common
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Gulf Fritillary abundant
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye abundant
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper abundant
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Southern Broken-Dash 5
  • Palmetto Skipper 3
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Brazilian Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper abundant

Linda Cooper

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
Okeechobee County, FL

9:45 am - 3:30 pm; weather - 79*-89*, sun am-100%, pm-50%, light winds. Nectar sources: Pine Lily, Liatris, Drumheads, Agalinis, Caesarweed, Spanish Needles. Buck and Linda Cooper, Max Larrivee, Greg Breed.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 9
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 4
  • Little Metalmark 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 6
  • Phaon Crescent 3
  • Common Buckeye 9
  • White Peacock 30
  • Viceroy 5
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Carolina Satyr 11
  • Georgia Satyr 8
  • Queen 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Dorantes Longtail 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 6
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Southern Broken-Dash 4
  • Sachem 1
  • Delaware Skipper 4
  • Aaron's Skipper 9
  • Palmetto Skipper 16
  • Berry's Skipper 1
  • Monk Skipper 1
  • Dusted Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 14
  • Ocola Skipper 16

Aaron's Skipper

Little Yellow

Twin-spot Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Little Metalmark

Scott Fisher

Crosswicks Creek Greenway Upper Freehold
Monmouth County, NJ

  • Orange Sulphur 60
  • Little Yellow 6
  • Pearl Crescent 65
  • Monarch 40
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 30
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Ocola Skipper

Monarch

Little Yellow

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Eastern Comma
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Sachem
  • Zabulon Skipper

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

82F

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Umber Skipper 2

John Heyse

Urban Martinez, Martinez Marsh, CarquinezShorieline, Mtz
Contra Costa County, CA

80F

  • Cabbage White 8
  • Orange Sulphur 11
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Common Buckeye 9
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Sandhill Skipper 3
  • Woodland Skipper 4
  • Umber Skipper 9

Jim Wilkinson

Elkhorn Garden Plots
Howard County, MD

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 30
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 6
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • Variegated Fritillary 6
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Sachem 20

Common Checkered-Skipper

Gray Hairstreak

Tawny-edged Skipper

Jeanette Klodzen

Desolation Lake to Wasatch Crest (Big Cottonwood Canyon)
Salt Lake County, UT

Milberts Tortoiseshell was seen on the Crest (9760ft)

  • Mylitta Crescent 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell 1

Nancy Russell

Lubbock, my backyard on my milkweed plants.
Lubbock County, TX

Female—stayed a lengthy time going from flower to flower. Don’t know if she laid any eggs or not. Will go check later.

  • Monarch 1

Monarch

Rebecca Smith

Cape May Point State Park butterfly garden
Cape May County, NJ

  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Monarch 10
  • Sachem 11

Red Admiral

Clouded Sulphur

David H. Bartholomew

Sunnyvale
Santa Clara County, CA

My Buddlaeia bush is past its prime, but still attracting a few butterflies. The Monarch is what got me out there looking.

  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Monarch

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper

Tom Palmer

Florida Scenic Trail, Green Swamp
Polk County, FL

  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 8
  • Barred Yellow 3
  • Little Yellow 4
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Little Metalmark 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Pearl Crescent 7
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • White Peacock 2
  • Carolina Satyr 17
  • Long-tailed Skipper 12
  • Dorantes Longtail 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 5
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 9
  • Clouded Skipper 5
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Whirlabout 5
  • Southern Broken-Dash 5
  • Sachem 1
  • Berry's Skipper 1
  • Monk Skipper 2
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 5
  • Ocola Skipper 9

Berry's Skipper

Kent (KC) Jensen

McCrory Gardens
Brookings County, SD

  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • American Snout 1
  • American Lady
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Monarch
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Sachem

American Lady

Common Buckeye

Monarch

Painted Lady

Common Checkered-Skipper

American Snout

Christopher Leslie

Algonquian Street, Ventura CA
Ventura County, CA

California Dogface was feeding at lantana in organic pollinator garden near county open spaces. It was being chased by cabbage whites. Host plants Amorpha Californica and Amorpha Fruticosa also in garden. Sunny day in the 80’s F. Other butterflies feeding at lantana, Buddleia, Verbena, and Milkweed in garden.

  • Cabbage White 6
  • California Dogface 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Marine Blue 6
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Monarch 8
  • Mournful Duskywing 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Umber Skipper 1

California Dogface

Mournful Duskywing

California Dogface

Brett Badeaux

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park - Plum Canyon
San Diego County, CA

Started out sunny with increasing clouds starting after noon, eventually fully cloudy in the afternoon. Extremely dry with little nectar but some plants are beginning to regrow. I’m not sure where “Plum Canyon” ends, and I explored many side trails/washes. The Giant Skippers seemed even more active in cloudy weather.
1 un-id brown Nymphalid flew past very briefly, probably Common Buckeye.

  • Sleepy Orange 5
  • Juniper Hairstreak 2
  • Leda Ministreak 2
  • Mormon Metalmark 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 4
  • California Giant-Skipper 31

Sleepy Orange

Juniper Hairstreak

California Giant-Skipper

California Giant-Skipper

Brett Badeaux

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park - near Scissors Crossing
San Diego County, CA

Sunny, not too hot. A short exploration of some trails near Scissors Crossing and a spot off the San Felipe Road with lots of blooming Alkali goldenbush.
1 un-id White Checkered or Beckers flew past
1 un-id unfamiliar Nymphalid seen flying away, possibly a California Patch

  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 4
  • Leda Ministreak 17
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 7
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Mormon Metalmark 9
  • Palmer's Metalmark 8
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 1
  • Mojave Sootywing 6
  • California Giant-Skipper 2

Mormon Metalmark

Leda Ministreak, Palmer's Metalmark

Mojave Sootywing

Curtis A. Lehman

Forest Hills
Allegheny County, PA

Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and temperatures in the 60’s.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Fiery Skipper

Jeanette Klodzen

Corner 1700E and 2100 S - Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County, UT

  • Monarch 1

Ronald Hedden

Back yard
Lubbock County, TX

Most butterflies were attracted to Gregg’s Mistflower. Also seen in the back yard this week: three Monarchs and a Funereal Duskywing. No sulphur spp. lately - very unusual.

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Queen 6
  • Orange Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Sachem 7
  • Eufala Skipper 1

Eufala Skipper

American Lady

Cabbage White

Sachem

Queen

Queen

Queen

Gray Hairstreak

Ashley Gardner

7315 Burkwood Circle
Roanoke County, VA

Migrating Monarchs.

  • Monarch

Monarch

Monarch

Brett Badeaux

Wilderness Gardens Preserve
San Diego County, CA

Sunny, high 80s. The wash area has tons of surprisingly green Sweetbush blooming as well as Scalebrooms but there weren’t many butterflies attracted to it.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Sleepy Orange 1-2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Fatal Metalmark 5
  • Wright's Metalmark 4
  • Mormon Metalmark 28
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 9
  • California Sister 1
  • Queen 1
  • Mournful Duskywing 15
  • Funereal Duskywing 2
  • White Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Woodland Skipper 3
  • Eufala Skipper 2

Wright's Metalmark

Wright's Metalmark

John Heyse

Suison Marsh
Solano County, CA

63-68F, breezy

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Sandhill Skipper 1

Western Pygmy-Blue

Fiery Skipper

William D. Beck

Arivaca Cienega National Wildlife Refuge
Pima County, AZ

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Checkered White common
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Mexican Yellow common
  • Tailed Orange
  • Sleepy Orange common
  • Dainty Sulphur
  • Great Purple Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Leda Ministreak
  • Western Pygmy-Blue
  • Marine Blue
  • Reakirt's Blue
  • Mormon Metalmark
  • Palmer's Metalmark common
  • American Snout
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Bordered Patch
  • Tiny Checkerspot
  • Texan Crescent
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Painted Crescent
  • Painted Lady
  • Monarch 2
  • Queen
  • Funereal Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Pahaska Skipper
  • Sachem

Tailed Orange

Pahaska Skipper

Mormon Metalmark

Sachem