April 2020 Sightings

David H. Bartholomew

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

11:00-3:00, pond area was most productive.

  • Pale Swallowtail 1
  • Mustard White 4
  • Large Marble 2
  • Sara Orangetip 1
  • Spring Azure 65
  • Silvery Blue 1
  • Acmon Blue 3
  • Mylitta Crescent 5
  • Variable Checkerspot 3
  • California Tortoiseshell 3
  • Mourning Cloak 4
  • Common Ringlet 33

Spring Azure

Mustard White

Mylitta Crescent

Silvery Blue

Variable Checkerspot

William D. Flack

Old Towne Way Woodlands Trail.
Worcester County, MA

Butterflies are sheltering, too. Female Mourning Cloak

  • Mourning Cloak 1

Mourning Cloak

Mourning Cloak

Mourning Cloak

Walter Wallenstein

My residence
Broward County, FL

Exceptional day in the yard. Loads of butterflies, & a new species for the yard, Amythest Hairstreak. Saw it 2 days in a row, then no more. Fulvous Hairstreaks having a good showing, multiple ones every day for a couple weeks now

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 4
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Great Southern White 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Pink-spot Sulphur 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 4
  • Atala 12
  • Amethyst Hairstreak 1
  • Fulvous Hairstreak 10
  • Cassius Blue 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 8
  • Julia Heliconian 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 23
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • White Peacock 3
  • Ruddy Daggerwing 3
  • Monarch 6
  • Queen 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Three-spotted Skipper 7
  • Monk Skipper 3

Fulvous Hairstreak

Atala

Julia Heliconian

Cassius Blue

Amethyst Hairstreak

Laura Wright

Walking trail at Lake O' Pines, Ore City
Upshur County, TX

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Three-tailed Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Goatweed Leafwing 3
  • Gemmed Satyr 2
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Little Wood-Satyr 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Hoary Edge 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2
  • Clouded Skipper 1

John and Nancy Crosby

Sea Way NE, Shellman Bluff, GA
McIntosh County, GA

67 degrees, breezy & sunny.

  • Spring Azure 1
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1

John and Nancy Crosby

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

67 degrees, sunny & breezy after an inch of rain so we expected to see more.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 5
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 8
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 15
  • Henry's Elfin 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Southern Pearly-eye 2
  • Gemmed Satyr 15
  • Carolina Satyr 25
  • Little Wood-Satyr 35
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Sachem 1

Red Admiral

Zebra Swallowtail

Southern Pearly-eye

Sachem

Red-banded Hairstreak

Palamedes Swallowtail

Northern Cloudywing

Little Wood-Satyr

Henry's Elfin

Gemmed Satyr

Carolina Satyr

Karen Canon

Albuquerque, foothills area
Bernalillo County, NM

Sunny, low 60’s.Dry for past 4 days. Area is mostly scrub and cholla with some suburban houses and yards.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Common Checkered-Skipper

Jeremiah Butler

Jackson County
Jackson County, AL

Paulette Ogard sent the following note and the photo.
On April 2, 2020, ten-year old Jeremiah Butler fished a drowning butterfly out of a pond in Jackson County, Alabama. Before it flew away, he and his mother photographed it. It was later identified as an Early Hairstreak, only the third documented sighting of that species in Alabama!

  • Early Hairstreak 1

Early Hairstreak

Mike Reese, Nancy Nabak

Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve - Goodwin Rd.
Manitowoc County, WI

My first butterfly of the year!

  • Eastern Comma 1

Bart Jones

Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park
Shelby County, TN

Two Monarchs mating.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 13
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Falcate Orangetip 4
  • Orange Sulphur 49
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Question Mark 2
  • Red Admiral 4
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 12
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 5
  • Horace's Duskywing 2

Southern Dogface

Pipevine Swallowtail

Orange Sulphur

Monarch

Falcate Orangetip

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Jim Wilkinson

Lake Elkhorn, Columbia
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Comma 1

Eastern Comma

Ronda G Spink

Cow Creek Road-South to North
Levy County, FL

Start weather: Clear, 64°, 2mph wind
End weather: Clear, 76°, 6mph wind
Start time: 10:00am
End time: 4:45pm
R. Spink
I drove almost to the Goethe Giant Cypress tree, I ended about 1/4 mile south.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 18
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 50
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 7
  • Little Yellow 12
  • Dainty Sulphur 21
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Little Metalmark 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 7
  • Phaon Crescent 145
  • Pearl Crescent 41
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 49
  • Viceroy 5
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 14
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 23
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Delaware Skipper 3
  • Twin-spot Skipper 3

Scott Anderson

Sleeping Turtles Preserve North
Sarasota County, FL

1-4pm, 74-76 degrees, sunny, light wind

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 5
  • Barred Yellow 7
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 116
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 50
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Phaon Crescent 14
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 9
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 9
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Whirlabout 6

Ceraunus Blue

Southern Skipperling

Tropical Checkered-Skipper

Dorantes Longtail

Whirlabout

Monarch

Barred Yellow

Little Yellow

Great Southern White

Queen

Jean Evoy

27.25N -81.87 W
DeSoto County, FL

Sunny,light wind, temperature in. mid-80s. Major nectar source: thistles

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Great Southern White common
  • Oak Hairstreak
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Common Buckeye
  • White Peacock
  • Viceroy
  • Carolina Satyr
  • Monarch
  • Queen
  • Horace's Duskywing
  • Least Skipper
  • Whirlabout
  • Southern Broken-Dash

Oak Hairstreak

Laura Wright

Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Harrison County, TX

Observed butterflies from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm. Weather between 64 and 76 degrees. Started off a little cloudy then the sun came out.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 4
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 17
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 4
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 4
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 5
  • Little Wood-Satyr 9
  • Monarch 6
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Laura Wright

Waking trail near Lake O' Pines, Ore City
Upshur County, TX

Observed butterflies from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm. Sunny around 76 degrees.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Gemmed Satyr 3
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Little Wood-Satyr 11
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1

Kathy Beza Richardson

Totier Creek Park
Albemarle County, VA

Sunny, breezy, upper 50’s to low 60’s

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Falcate Orangetip 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing superabundant

Zebra Swallowtail

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Juvenal's Duskywing

Mimi Gardenerd

Peaceful Ridge Trail
Broward County, FL

A sunny, little breezy day on the trail observing and recording the pictured common butterflies in super-abundance (25+) in the duration of 2 hours (9-11 am)

  • Zebra Heliconian 25+
  • White Peacock 25+
  • Monarch 25+

White Peacock

Zebra Heliconian

Monarch

John and Nancy Crosby

Harris Neck NWR Boat Landing Meadow
McIntosh County, GA

71 degrees, sunny.

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Little Metalmark 5
  • Phaon Crescent 6
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Monarch 4
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 50

Common Buckeye

Little Metalmark

Little Metalmark

Monarch

Palamedes Swallowtail

Salt Marsh Skipper

Southern Skipperling

Whirlabout

Phaon Crescent

Clouded Skipper

American Lady

John and Nancy Crosby

Harris Neck NWR
McIntosh County, GA

70 degrees, sunny. Sparkleberry is blooming!

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 24
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 1
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Little Wood-Satyr 10
  • Monarch 2
  • Northern Cloudywing 2
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 23

Zebra Swallowtail

Spicebush Swallowtail

Great Purple Hairstreak

Southern Skipperling

Salt Marsh Skipper

Northern Cloudywing

Little Wood-Satyr

Red Admiral

Whirlabout

Palamedes Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Clouded Skipper

Carolina Satyr

Dale Kennedy

Whitehouse Nature Center
Calhoun County, MI

seen while birding, first day above 50F in a week, sunny, very little wind

  • Eastern Comma 3
  • Mourning Cloak 3

Jeff Gesell

Jacobsburg State Park
Northampton County, PA

Sunny, very windy, mid-50s

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Spring Azure 2

Spring Azure

Gina Thomas

my back yard butterfly garden, Tampa Heights
Hillsborough County, FL

The Monarch is another common visitor, as are its caterpillars to the milkweed I planted. They’ve been regulars since before I made a larger garden in spring 2018

  • Monarch abundant

Monarch

Monarch caterpillar

Monarch chrysalis

Monarch

Monarch caterpillar

Todd Eiben

Caley Reservation
Lorain County, OH

First Cabbage Whites of the year

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Eastern Comma 17
  • Mourning Cloak 4

Eastern Comma

Eastern Comma

Eastern Comma

Eastern Comma

Cabbage White

Cabbage White

Mourning Cloak

Mourning Cloak

john heyse

Crockett Hills Park, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

57F

  • Two-tailed Swallowtail 1
  • Silvery Blue 1
  • Acmon Blue 3
  • Common Ringlet 1

Acmon Blue

Two-tailed Swallowtail

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

58F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 11
  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Silvery Blue 1
  • Painted Lady 1

Anise Swallowtail

Pipevine Swallowtail

Silvery Blue

Amelia Grimm

Yard on Big Pine Key
Monroe County, FL

From our deck at lunch time we watched as these butterflies nectared on poisonwood flowers. Sunny, warm. 12:45 - 1:00pm. AGrimm and LWilliams.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 2
  • Martial Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Fulvous Hairstreak 1
  • Mangrove Skipper 1

Ken Wilson

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
San Diego County, CA

With Bob Gorman & Diane Brodeur. Sunny, mid 70s, breezy early to full blast wind in the afternoon. All park sites & roads were closed but some of the canyons near the main roads could be accessed by foot.

  • Checkered White
  • Sara Orangetip
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Queen Alexandra's Sulphur
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Sleepy Orange
  • Dainty Sulphur
  • Bramble Hairstreak
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Western Pygmy-Blue
  • Marine Blue
  • Acmon Blue
  • Wright's Metalmark
  • California Patch
  • Variable Checkerspot
  • Painted Lady
  • Common Buckeye
  • Arizona Powdered-Skipper
  • Funereal Duskywing
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Northern White-Skipper
  • Orange Skipperling
  • Common Branded Skipper

Variable Checkerspot

Northern White-Skipper

California Patch

Arizona Powdered-Skipper

Randy Harrod

Cedars of Lebanon State Park
Wilson County, TN

Temp 65-70 Sunny to partly cloudy
Henry’s Elfin Tennessee state first

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Falcate Orangetip 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Southern Dogface 2
  • Henry's Elfin 4
  • Juniper Hairstreak 6
  • Goatweed Leafwing 7
  • Gemmed Satyr 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1

Southern Dogface

Henry's Elfin

Goatweed Leafwing

Southern Dogface

Juniper Hairstreak

Gemmed Satyr

Elizabeth Golden

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
Miami-Dade County, FL

The park is currently closed to the public, but as I am an employee there, I was able to conduct a short survey after I spotted a Cuban Crescent.
Two Atala caterpillars were also seen.

  • Great Southern White 1
  • Fulvous Hairstreak 1
  • Cassius Blue 7
  • Julia Heliconian 24
  • Zebra Heliconian 33
  • Cuban Crescent 22
  • Florida Purplewing 1
  • Monarch 3

Kathy Beza Richardson

Van Clief Natural Area
Albemarle County, VA

  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing superabundant

Eastern Comma

Juvenal's Duskywing

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Variegated Fritillary

Kathy Beza Richardson

Louisa County High School
Louisa County, VA

Sunny, low 60’s, wind gusts

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Falcate Orangetip 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 30

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Juvenal's Duskywing

Karlo and Alison Mirth

Hook Mountain
Rockland County, NY

Spent about an hour at the top of Hook Mountain, from 1-2 PM. Mostly sunny, mid- to high 50s, little wind. The Orangetips included one female.

  • Falcate Orangetip 5-6
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Falcate Orangetip

Ronda G Spink

Lower Suwannee NWR, South Entrance to North Entrance Nature Drive
Levy County, FL

Start weather: Clear: 58°, 7-10mph wind
End weather: Clear, 70°, calm
Start time: 10:20am
End time: 6:00pm
R. Spink and B. Woodmansee

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 50
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • American Snout 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 46
  • Pearl Crescent 56
  • Question Mark 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Viceroy 1
  • Tawny Emperor 1
  • Appalachian Brown 6
  • Carolina Satyr 22
  • Little Wood-Satyr 25
  • Monarch 5
  • Queen 32
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 4
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 17
  • Sachem 1
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Aaron's Skipper 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 6
  • Palatka Skipper 8
  • Dun Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1

Marcus Gray & Family

Huckleberry Ridge State Forest
Orange County, NY

  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 6

Mourning Cloak

Mourning Cloak

Mourning Cloak

Jeff Gesell

Two Rivers Trail - Forks Township
Northampton County, PA

Mostly cloudy with some breaks of sun, light breeze, mid 50s

  • Cabbage White 4

Antonia S Krueger

St Petersburg, FL
Pinellas County, FL

Yard sighting

  • Gulf Fritillary 1

Gulf Fritillary

Gulf Fritillary

Jim Wilkinson

Lake Elkhorn
Howard County, MD

pale blue upper side in flight seems to indicate a summer azure

  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1

Rick Borchelt

Laurel, Patuxent Research Refuge North Tract
Anne Arundel County, MD

Periods of strong sun interspersed with clouds and bright overcast. Winds calm, temperature mid-60’s F.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Henry's Elfin 5
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • American Lady 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 5

Henry's Elfin

Eastern Pine Elfin

Juvenal's Duskywing

Pearl Crescent

Clifford Hence

John Heinz NWR
Delaware County, PA

These Butterflies were seen from the Rt 420 entrance of the Refuge

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1

Mark and Holly Salvato

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

Overcast, with Tim Towles

  • Oak Hairstreak 4
  • Zebra Heliconian

Oak Hairstreak

Oak Hairstreak

Rick Cheicante

Bynum Run Conservation Area (backyard)
Harford County, MD

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Falcate Orangetip 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Spring Azure 8
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Red Admiral 1

'Summer' Spring Azure

Orange Sulphur

Orange Sulphur

White M Hairstreak

Scott Anderson

Toscana Isles
Sarasota County, FL

Backyard find.

  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak

Venice Kelly

CR 103- dirt road 4 miles north of nederland
Boulder County, CO

we were just out for a walk in the fresh air and sun, never expecting to see anything flying just yet. but a brave little Sheridan’s Hairstreak had emerged and danced around in front of us on a south facing slope. this is the first mountain sighting this year.
temp 57F mostly sunny 8,500 foot elevation.
no photo, i had left my camera home.

  • Sheridan's Hairstreak 1

William D. Flack

Woodlands Trail/My Yard.
Worcester County, MA

  • Mourning Cloak 6

Mourning Cloak

Mourning Cloak

Mourning Cloak

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Sunny With 56degrees. First (white cabbage) butterfly observed for 2020

  • Cabbage White 1

Marcus Gray & Family

Home Garden in Huguenot
Orange County, NY

  • Cabbage White 4

Mimi Gardenerd

Peaceful Ridge Trail
Broward County, FL

Social Distancing Practiced

  • Great Southern White 12
  • Dainty Sulphur 25
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Julia Heliconian 25
  • Zebra Heliconian 25
  • White Peacock 25
  • Monarch 23

Julia Heliconian

Polydamas Swallowtail

Dainty Sulphur

Zebra Heliconian

White Peacock

Monarch

Julia Heliconian

Great Southern White

Jeffrey Glassberg

Warren Grove
Ocean County, NJ

  • Brown Elfin 4
  • Hoary Elfin 9
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Eastern Comma 3

Brown Elfin

Hoary Elfin

Hoary Elfin

Jim Wilkinson

Lake Elkhorn, Columbia
Howard County, MD

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Question Mark 1

Question

Henry Kindervatter

Mercer County Park
Mercer County, NJ

A sunny, somewhat warm day (59-65º F) while exploring Mercer County Park West Picnic Area & East Picnic area plus two nearby areas along the power lines in that area (Caspersen Rowing Center (40.269491, -74.639406) & the end of Bruntsfield Drive (40.266415, -74.617952). Looking for possible extensions of the Falcate orangetip habitat, I found that neither of the latter two places had any of the larval food plant - Hairy Rock Cress - that is found in the park. The East Picnic area and Campground proved to be an area that had a great deal of Hairy Rock Cress and there was at least one Falcate Orangetip (possibly 2, but I am erring on the side of caution as chances were 50-50 that it was a Cabbage White. The Spring Azure was also sighted in that location (40.263017, -74.622082).

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Falcate Orangetip 14
  • Spring Azure 1

Falcate Orangetip

Renee Davis

Roosa Gap fire tower. Summitville. Blue trail.
Sullivan County, NY

  • Spring Azure 2
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Ronda G Spink

Big Bend WMA-Spring Creek-Perry
Taylor County, FL

Start weather: Clear, 69°, calm
End weather: Mostly clear, 76°, calm
Start time:10:15am
End time: 6:40pm
R. Spink and B. Woodmansee

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 36
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 57
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 7
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Eastern Pygmy-Blue 4
  • Little Metalmark 17
  • American Snout 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Phaon Crescent 47
  • Pearl Crescent 293
  • Question Mark 8
  • Red Admiral 13
  • Common Buckeye 7
  • Viceroy 21
  • Southern Pearly-eye 1
  • Appalachian Brown 4
  • Gemmed Satyr 4
  • Carolina Satyr 37
  • Little Wood-Satyr 80
  • Monarch 6
  • Queen 21
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Clouded Skipper 6
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 15
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Palatka Skipper 4
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Brazilian Skipper 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 167
  • Ocola Skipper 1

Denis C. Quinn

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

Mid-morning when the sun peeked out for fifteen minutes. Best day so far this year.

  • Cabbage White 7
  • Spring Azure 3
  • Question Mark 2

Question Mark

Bill Lupardus

Midland County, Texas E.Co.Rd. 120
Midland County, TX

Shinnery Oak forest.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Checkered White 2
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Goatweed Leafwing 1
  • Sleepy Duskywing 5+

Sleepy Duskywing

Sleepy Duskywing

Robert Gilson

West Branch Nature Preserve
Mecklenburg County, NC

78℉ and sunny

  • Zebra Swallowtail 13
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Falcate Orangetip 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Gemmed Satyr 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Jay Watson

End of Wagner Rd.
Calumet County, WI

First butterfly of the year for me flying along edge of the woods.

  • Mourning Cloak 1

Karen Canon

Foothills area of Albuquerque
Bernalillo County, NM

In suburban garden with pincushion, dianthus, and coreopsis as well as dwarf plum blossoms. Late morning/early afternoon; low 70’s

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Painted Lady 2

Painted Lady

Tom Palmer

Lake Blue Scrub
Polk County, FL

very dry; few nectar sources

  • Great Southern White 1
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Common Buckeye 2

MaryAnn Friedman

Roxborough S.P.
Douglas County, CO

Warm, sunny, breezy 70 degrees. Several unidentified Duskywings made fly-bys as did two unidentified Anglewings

  • Sheridan's Hairstreak 1
  • Mourning Cloak 3
  • Painted Lady 2

Sheridan's Hairstreak

John Heyse

Carquinez Shoreline Park, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

52F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Silvery Blue 1
  • Common Ringlet 3

Common Ringlet

Pipevine Swallowtail

Mark and Holly Salvato

Highlands area, Vero Beach
Indian River County, FL

  • Fulvous Hairstreak 2
  • Cassius Blue
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Zebra Heliconian

Fulvous Hairstreak

Fulvous Hairstreak

Ronda G Spink

Big Bend WMA-Tide Swamp Unit-Steinhatchee
Taylor County, FL

Start weather: Clear, 76°, 5-10mph wind
End weather: Clear, 76°, calm
Start time: 11:25am
End time: 6:10pm
R. Spink and B. Woodmansee

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 14
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 25
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Banded Hairstreak 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 6
  • American Snout 1
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Pearl Crescent 106
  • Question Mark 2
  • Red Admiral 9
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Southern Pearly-eye 2
  • Appalachian Brown 35
  • Gemmed Satyr 10
  • Carolina Satyr 60
  • Little Wood-Satyr 176
  • Monarch 11
  • Queen 20
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 4
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Dun Skipper 1

Venice Kelly

dead man's gulch, about 3 miles west of the town of Lyons
Boulder County, CO

we had two sunny warm days in a row, so i was hopeful that Moss’ Elfins might be flying and they were. more Sheridan’s too.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Sheridan's Hairstreak 5
  • Moss' Elfin 3
  • Hoary Comma 4
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • Painted Lady 1

Moss' Elfin

Moss' Elfin

Kathy Beza Richardson

Great Dismal Swamp NWR
Suffolk city, VA

Sunny, mid 60’s to upper 70’s

  • Zebra Swallowtail superabundant
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail superabundant
  • Palamedes Swallowtail abundant
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • American Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing common

Mourning Cloak

Red Admiral

American Lady

Palamedes Swallowtail

Zebra Swallowtail

Juvenal's Duskywing

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Pearl Crescent

Jim Wilkinson

Lake Elkhorn, Columbia
Howard County, MD

also one unidentified anglewing

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1

Sleepy Orange

Ronda G Spink

Gulf Hammock WMA-Withlacoochee Gulf Preserve-Inglis
Levy County, FL

Start weather: Clear, 84°, 5-12mph wind
End weather: Hazy, 81°, 5-12mph wind
Start time: 1:30pm
End time: 2:40pm
B. Woodmansee and R. Spink

  • Little Yellow 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 12

Ronda G Spink

Cedars of Lebanon Cemetery-Inglis
Levy County, FL

Start weather: Cloudy, 79°, 5mph wind
End weather: Partly cloudy, 84°, 5mph wind
Start time: 11:00am
End time: 1:00pm
B. Woodmansee and R. Spink
Most of our butterflies were along the dirt road leading to the cemetery.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 7
  • Checkered White 8
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • American Snout 8
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Queen 5
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 7

Scott Anderson

Sleeping Turtles Preserve North
Sarasota County, FL

12noon-310pm, 80 degrees, sunny, breezy

  • Great Southern White 8
  • Barred Yellow 5
  • Little Yellow 8
  • Dainty Sulphur 108
  • Oak Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 28
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Phaon Crescent 13
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 7
  • Southern Skipperling 1

Denis C. Quinn

South end of Nottingham County Park
Chester County, PA

Nottingham County Park was hit with a serious outbreak of Southern Pine Beetle that killed most of the Pitch Pines there and now removal of all of the dead trees has a war zone look, complete change!

  • Cabbage White 8
  • Falcate Orangetip 5
  • Henry's Elfin 1
  • Spring Azure 10
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 3

Spring Azure

Juvenal's Duskywing

Falcate Orangetip

Henry's Elfin

Eastern Comma

Melissa Bruesehoff

Warren
Macomb County, MI

Mostly sunny, breezy. Temp of 68 when seeing a cabbage butterfly and Red Admiral.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red Admiral 1

Suzanne Trice

yard at home in Dorchester co MD near Hurlock
Dorchester County, MD

I was surprised to see a Black Swallowtail so early here.

  • Black Swallowtail 1

Black Swallowtail

John and Nancy Crosby

Sea Way NE, Shellman Bluff, GA
McIntosh County, GA

85 degrees, sunny. Seen while gardening.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1

Jeff Gesell

Jacobsburg State Park
Northampton County, PA

Partly cloudy, breezy, mid-60s

  • Cabbage White 23
  • Spring Azure 6
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Cabbage White

Nancy Stahl

Willow Grove - my back yard
Montgomery County, PA

First sighting of this butterfly in my yard.

  • Eastern Comma 1

Eastern Comma

Allan Loudell

White Clay Creek Preserve
Chester County, PA

One-hour, mid-afternoon walk. Mostly sunny.

  • Cabbage White 6
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 5

Gina Thomas

my back yard butterfly garden, Tampa Heights
Hillsborough County, FL

This is a supercommon visitor to my butterfly garden, which is rich with corky stem passion vine. The Gulf Fritillaries love my Lantana and Golden Dew Drop.

  • Gulf Fritillary superabundant

Gulf Fritillary caterpillar

C Chase

Wildwood
St. Louis County, MO

I overwintered 4 Black Swallowtail pupae. I had one emerge from its chrysalis on Wednesday the 8th. It was released. Not much nectar but I have parsley that survived the winter and new fennel coming up.

  • Black Swallowtail 1

Randy Harrod

Percy Warner Park
Davidson County, TN

62 sunny and windy

  • Spring Azure 1

Spring Azure

Kathy Beza Richardson

Powhatan State Park
Powhatan County, VA

60’s to 70’s, breezy, sunny

  • Zebra Swallowtail abundant
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Falcate Orangetip 4
  • Clouded Sulphur common
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • American Snout 2
  • Eastern Comma 3
  • Juvenal's Duskywing common

Gray Hairstreak

American Snout

Eastern Comma

Clouded Sulphur

Spicebush Swallowtail

Juvenal's Duskywing

American Snout

Eastern Comma

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Falcate Orangetip

Zebra Swallowtail

Gina Thomas

my back yard butterfly garden, Tampa Heights
Hillsborough County, FL

This is the first time I’ve seen a Zebra in my garden, since I started it spring 2018. So excited. The Orange-barred Sulphurs have always been abundant as cassia was the first host plant I planted years ago.

  • Orange-barred Sulphur Abundant
  • Gulf Fritillary abundant
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Monarch abundant

Zebra Heliconian

Zebra Heliconian

Lee Snyder

St. Petersburg
Pinellas County, FL

numerous other species in my backyard—but this one liked posing.

  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak

Jeanette Klodzen

Lambs Canyon Rd to Trail head
Salt Lake County, UT

Sunny, near 60 degrees.
Walked 1.5 from closed gate to trail head. Road still covered in snow for over 1 mile. Counted only on the way to trail head.

10+ Satyr/Hoary Commas - didn’t have my camera or binocs to ID

  • Mourning Cloak 8

Tom Palmer

Everglades Headwaters NWR-Hatchineha Unit
Polk County, FL

  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Great Southern White 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow 3
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 13
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 12
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 4
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 1

Great Southern White

Dainty Sulphur

Zebra Swallowtail

White M Hairstreak

Scott Anderson

Sleeping Turtles Preserve North
Sarasota County, FL

215-440pm, 83 degrees, partly sunny, windy

  • Great Southern White 1
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 11
  • Dainty Sulphur 144
  • Oak Hairstreak 4
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 15
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 9
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 5
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 1

Oak Hairstreak

Oak Hairstreak

Red-banded Hairstreak

Common Buckeye

Barred Yellow

Oak Hairstreak

Southern Skipperling

Dainty Sulphur

White Peacock

Southern Skipperling

Fiery Skipper

Oak Hairstreak

Oak Hairstreak

Denis C. Quinn

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

Just a short mile walk through my woods and edge late afternoon after work. Not one anglewing is seen where others have been lately.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 6

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest
Sarpy County, NE

A gorgeous day, around 72 degrees and little wind.Sunny. There have been lots of Spring Azure out so far this year.

  • Cabbage White 3
  • Spring Azure 21
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 1

Spring Azure

Kathy Beza Richardson

Pole Green Park
Hanover County, VA

sunny, mid 50’s, breezy

yellow sulphurs were present but unable to ID to species

  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 1

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Common Buckeye

Pearl Crescent

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Kathy Beza Richardson

Totopotomoy Creek and Battlefield- Rural Plains
Hanover County, VA

mid 50’s to low 60’s, sunny, breezy

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Henry's Elfin 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • American Snout 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2

Juvenal's Duskywing

Falcate Orangetip

Henry's Elfin

Spring Azure

Juvenal's Duskywing

Henry's Elfin

Juvenal's Duskywing

American Snout

Orange Sulphur

Andrew Block

20 Hancock Ave., Yonkers,
Westchester County, NY

  • Cabbage White 1

Harry Zirlin

Jackson Township, Warren Grove, Whiting, MM 9 on 72
Ocean County, NJ

Good while the sun was out. Never had Henry’s Elfin at the Jackson location before in decades of visiting there.

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Falcate Orangetip 14
  • Brown Elfin 2
  • Hoary Elfin 5
  • Henry's Elfin 1
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Sleepy Duskywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1

Falcate Orangetip

Renee Davis

Hook Mountain
Rockland County, NY

  • Falcate Orangetip 2

Chris Blazo

Williamson Woods
Franklin County, PA

No Henry’s Elfin or Juniper Hairstreaks yet, but it was still a nice day, although cloudy. 66 degrees.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Spring Azure 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 15
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 4
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 3

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Pearl Crescent

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Spring Azure

Juvenal's Duskywing

Denis C. Quinn

South end of Nottingham County Park, Nottingham, PA
Chester County, PA

The temperature was in the low sixties, mostly cloudy with rarely bright spots.

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Falcate Orangetip 5
  • Spring Azure 4

John J. Collins

797 Ashton Street, Raritan, NJ
Somerset County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 1

Mimi Gardenerd

Peaceful Ridge Trail
Broward County, FL

Social Distancing on the trail for a few hours 9-12 pm Sunny 90 degrees, heavy breezes blowing the photographed butterflies here and there.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Great Southern White 4
  • Dainty Sulphur 12
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 25
  • Red-spotted Admiral 2
  • Monarch 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 4

Zebra Heliconian

Red Admiral

Horace's Duskywing

Great Southern White

Dainty Sulphur

Black Swallowtail

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 40+
  • Anise Swallowtail 3
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Silvery Blue 1
  • Mylitta Crescent 1
  • Painted Lady 5
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2

Anise Swallowtail

Common Checkered-Skipper

David H. Bartholomew

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

Beautiful day, temperature about 70. Half as many hikers as usual, due to CoronaVirus restrictions and social distancing.

Painted Ladies seem to be migrating, they were constantly flying past. Not swarming, but all going in the same direction.

  • Pale Swallowtail 3
  • Mustard White 12
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Large Marble 2
  • Sara Orangetip 4
  • Bramble Hairstreak 4
  • Brown Elfin 3
  • Spring Azure 28
  • Mylitta Crescent 2
  • Variable Checkerspot 5
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 68
  • Common Ringlet 32
  • Propertius Duskywing 2
  • Mournful Duskywing 1

Sara Orangetip

Pale Swallowtail

Mylitta Crescent

Mournful Duskywing

Mustard White

Bramble Hairstreak

American Lady

American Lady

Mimi Gardenerd

Peaceful Ridge Trail
Broward County, FL

Social Distancing on the trail for a few hours 8-11 am, sunny, breezy, 90 degrees observed the photographed butterflies riding the winds.😊🦋

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Dainty Sulphur 12
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 25
  • Phaon Crescent 12
  • Red Admiral 2
  • White Peacock 25
  • Ruddy Daggerwing 2
  • Monarch 2
  • Dorantes Longtail 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 12
  • Fiery Skipper 2

Monk Skipper

phaoon

Phaon Crescent

Polydamas Swallowtail

Red Admiral

Ruddy Daggerwing

Zebra Heliconian

White Peacock

Horace's Duskywing

Gulf Fritillary

Fiery Skipper

Dorantes Longtail

Dainty Sulphur

Cloudless Sulphur

Gina Thomas

my back yard butterfly garden, Tampa Heights
Hillsborough County, FL

It is a very warm morning, dry conditions. This Monarch emerged recently from its chrysalis and it was hanging on to my tomato plant drying its wings. This is the second new Monarch in four days.

  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Monarch abundant
  • Horace's Duskywing 2

Monarch

Monarch chyrsalis

Monarch

Monarch

Ron Smith

Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
Pinellas County, FL

(22-198) Mostly cloudy and very humid. FL 102. Hairstreaks on palmetto blooms.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Great Southern White 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 18
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 9
  • Little Yellow 17
  • Dainty Sulphur 28
  • Oak Hairstreak 2
  • Fulvous Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 8
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • White Peacock 63
  • Tawny Emperor 2
  • Monarch 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 23
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 12
  • Sachem 1

Tawny Emperor

Fulvous Hairstreak

Oak Hairstreak

John and Nancy Crosby

Tollerson Tract Hunting Preserve near Intersection of Old Shellman Road and Youngman Rd, Shellman Bluff, GA
McIntosh County, GA

Mostly Cloudy, 76 degrees, we targeted Oak and other hairstreaks as the sparkleberry has started to bloom.

  • Spring Azure 2
  • Southern Pearly-eye 3
  • Carolina Satyr 8
  • Little Wood-Satyr 4

Little Wood-Satyr

Southern Pearly-eye

Southern Pearly-eye

John and Nancy Crosby

Harris Neck NWR
McIntosh County, GA

74 degrees, breezy partially sunny. Barbour Boat Landing Meadow was included in this report. Helitrope, Thistle, Pinewoods Milkweed and Sparkleberry were major nectar sources.

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 10
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Barred Yellow 4
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Phaon Crescent 6
  • American Lady 5
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 20
  • Monarch 5
  • Northern Cloudywing 2
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Whirlabout 15
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 30

Black Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Barred Yellow

Gray Hairstreak

Great Purple Hairstreak

Common Buckeye

Monarch

Variegated Fritillary

Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Northern Cloudywing

Palamedes Swallowtail

Phaon Crescent

Salt Marsh Skipper

Common Buckeye

American Lady

Antonia S Krueger

St Petersburg, FL
Pinellas County, FL

Yard sighting - nectaring on purple verbena

  • Gulf Fritillary 1

Gulf Fritillary

Edward Perry IV

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

Yard butterflies:
So, in my vegetable garden I noticed some turnip leaves getting some caterpillar action. I checked them out closely and thought they might be Great Southern White butterflies. Adults had been hanging around the garden lately, but I also have their native host (pepper grass) in my yard, which I don’t cut or pull up. I see a female lay the odd egg once in a while on the pepper grass; I’ve never had the fun of watching a cat grow up on it however. It turns out Brassica rapa (turnip) is a known host for GSW, and interestingly that the white form of the butterfly uses Müllerian mimicry with other white butterflies that store mustard oils in the body. I am currently hopeful for some chrysalis and am happy to share my turnips with the butterflies! This morning I caught a female laying directly on a turnip leaf! Not just an egg, but 43 of them, before she flew off! Looking at the eggs after using my macro lens, I think I know now what they fashioned the Alien eggs after in the hit movie saga.

  • Great Southern White abundant

Great Southern White eggs

Great Southern White laying eggs

Great Southern White caterpillars

Jeff Gesell

Jacobsburg State Park
Northampton County, PA

50 degrees, partly cloudy, breezy. Numbers likely lower from recent strong winds, heavy rains, and freezing temps. First sulphurs of the year!

  • Cabbage White 7
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Spring Azure 3

Cabbage White

Spring Azure

Lee Snyder

Alhambra Way, St. Petersburg
Pinellas County, FL

Purposely letting back lawn bloom with Spanish needle. Productive.

  • Dainty Sulphur common
  • Cassius Blue 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary abundant
  • White Peacock abundant
  • Monarch 1
  • Horace's Duskywing abundant
  • Fiery Skipper abundant

Ceraunus Blue

Cassius Blue

Lee Francis Snyder

Alhambra Way
Pinellas County, FL

My backyard

  • Dainty Sulphur common
  • White Peacock abundant
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper common

Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Dainty Sulphur

Southern Skipperling

White Peacock

Gina Thomas

my back yard butterfly garden, Tampa Heights
Hillsborough County, FL

overcast, breezy and very warm.

  • Gulf Fritillary abundant
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Monarch abundant
  • Horace's Duskywing 2

Monarch laying an egg

Horace's Duskywing

Gulf Fritillary caterpillar

Gulf Fritillary

Gulf Fritillary

Pamela Jones

Port St. Lucie off Floresta
St. Lucie County, FL

  • Great Southern White 1
  • Monarch 6

Monarch

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 10+
  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Painted Lady 8
  • Monarch 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 2

Painted Lady

Ronda G Spink

Big Bend WMA-Hickory Mound-Lamont
Taylor County, FL

Start weather: Partly sunny, 57°, 5-7mph wind
End weather: Clear, 75°, 3-5mph wind
Start time: 9:15am
End time: 5:30pm
B. Woodmansee and R. Spink
The amount listed for Salt Marsh skippers is not accurate, we stopped counting and estimated the amount because they were literally everywhere!

  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 15
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 42
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Oak Hairstreak 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Pygmy-Blue 2
  • American Snout 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 9
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Phaon Crescent 17
  • Pearl Crescent 80
  • Question Mark 14
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 11
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 7
  • Carolina Satyr 18
  • Little Wood-Satyr 36
  • Monarch 23
  • Queen 30
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 30
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Palatka Skipper 5
  • Twin-spot Skipper 8
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1255

Oak Hairstreak

John and Nancy Crosby

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

Sparkleberry was the only think blooming and it was just outside the gate to Tabby Oaks. It was 72 degrees & sunny but much of Tabby Oaks is shaded much of the day.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 8
  • Henry's Elfin 2
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Southern Pearly-eye 1
  • Gemmed Satyr 1
  • Carolina Satyr 15
  • Little Wood-Satyr 8
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 3

Black Swallowtail

Carolina Satyr

Palamedes Swallowtail

Zebra Swallowtail

White M Hairstreak

Southern Pearly-eye

Little Wood-Satyr

Henry's Elfin

Gemmed Satyr

American Lady

Bart Jones

my yard, Midtown Memphis
Shelby County, TN

I don’t have a lot of flowers in my garden, so it was a nice surprise to find this Silver-spotted Skipper nectaring on the Dianthus.

  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Silver-spotted Skipper

Scott Anderson

Sleeping Turtles Preserve North
Sarasota County, FL

With John and Jane Lampkin, 10am-2pm, 72-82 degrees, cloudy to sunny, calm

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Little Yellow 16
  • Dainty Sulphur 146
  • Oak Hairstreak 5
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 39
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Zebra Heliconian 5
  • Phaon Crescent 10
  • Common Buckeye 7
  • White Peacock 2
  • Queen 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 17
  • White Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 10
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Eufala Skipper 1

Randy Harrod

Ellngton Agricultural Center
Davidson County, TN

Cool, 50s

  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1

Red-banded Hairstreak

Kathy Beza Richardson

Powhatan WMA- Sunfish Lake
Powhatan County, VA

Sunny, light clouds, mid 60’s, light breeze

  • Zebra Swallowtail 5
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Gemmed Satyr 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing abundant
  • Pepper and Salt Skipper 1

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Pepper and Salt Skipper

Juvenal's Duskywing

Silver-spotted Skipper

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Mourning Cloak

Pearl Crescent

Red-banded Hairstreak

Zebra Swallowtail

Gemmed Satyr

Carolina Satyr

Mimi Gardenerd

Peaceful Ridge Trail
Broward County, FL

In the field 9-11 am sunny 90 degrees with windy conditions and with dark storm clouds rolling up in the sky here’s what fluttered by. Social Distancing.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Dainty Sulphur 6
  • Gulf Fritillary 12
  • Zebra Heliconian 12
  • Monarch 2
  • Dorantes Longtail 7
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 7

Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

Black Swallowtail

Zebra Heliconian

Phaon Crescent

Dorantes Longtail

Horace's Duskywing

Ocola Skipper

White Peacock

John and Nancy Crosby

Harris Neck NWR
McIntosh County, GA

75 degrees, partially cloudy. Primary nectar sources were Pinewoods Milkweed, Sparkleberry and Helitrope.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 12
  • Great Southern White 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Barred Yellow 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Phaon Crescent 25
  • American Lady 5
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Common Buckeye 25
  • Little Wood-Satyr 1
  • Monarch 7
  • Northern Cloudywing 3
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 8
  • Yehl Skipper 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 40

Black Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Palamedes Swallowtail

American Lady

Common Buckeye

Gray Hairstreak

Great Southern White

Little Wood-Satyr

Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Clouded Skipper

Salt Marsh Skipper

Yehl Skipper

Northern Cloudywing

Monarch

Gina Thomas

my back yard butterfly garden, Tampa Heights
Hillsborough County, FL

  • Orange Sulphur abundant
  • Gulf Fritillary abundant
  • Zebra Heliconian
  • Monarch abundant

Horace's Duskywing

Gulf Fritillary caterpillar

Gulf Fritillary caterpillar

Gulf Fritillary

Jennifer Cole

Backyard on rhap
Gwinnett County, GA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Red Admiral 2

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Red Admiral

Mike Reese, Karen Oberhauser

Spring Green Preserve SNA
Sauk County, WI

I wanted to see if Olympia Marbles were flying and some were!

  • Olympia Marble 3
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Eastern Comma 3
  • Mourning Cloak 3

Mourning Cloak

'Spring' Spring Azure

Eastern Comma

Olympia Marble

Michael Diederich

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

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Red Admiral 1

Steven Rosenthal

Jones Beach State Park, Wantagh New York- Field 10 (Fishing Piers)
Nassau County, NY

a fast flyby around noon, 55 degrees, being pushed along by strong southerly winds. My first “interesting” butterfly species of the year, to quote a friend.

  • Red Admiral 1

Jim Wilkinson

Columbia Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Barbara DeWitt

Southwest Ranches
Broward County, FL

First sighted March 28, 2020. First time I’ve seen this species in Broward County.
Sunny. 90F.

  • Silver-banded Hairstreak 3

Silver-banded Hairstreak

Silver-banded Hairstreak

Harry Zirlin

Jackson Township and Warren Grove WMA
Ocean County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Falcate Orangetip 14
  • Brown Elfin 4
  • Hoary Elfin 10
  • Henry's Elfin 1
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 8
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Spring Azure 4
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 6
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1

Juvenal's Duskywing

Hoary Elfin

Eastern Pine Elfin

Brown Elfin

Mark and Holly Salvato

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

  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Great Southern White 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Cassius Blue
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Zebra Heliconian
  • White Peacock
  • Horace's Duskywing 3

White M Hairstreak

White M Hairstreak

Jean Evoy

Peace River Basin
DeSoto County, FL

With Bill Evoy. Temperature in the low 90s, breezy. Major nectar source was Nuttall’s Thistle.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White superabundant
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Little Metalmark
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Zebra Heliconian
  • Common Buckeye
  • White Peacock
  • Viceroy
  • Carolina Satyr
  • Monarch
  • Queen
  • Horace's Duskywing common
  • Monk Skipper 1

White M Hairstreak

Little Metalmark

Palamedes Swallowtail

Bo Zaremba

Newbury
Essex County, MA

  • Spring Azure 9
  • Eastern Comma 1

Eastern Comma

Spring Azure

Chris Blazo

Gate 11 @ Letterkenny & Buchanan State Forest
Franklin County, PA

I took advantage of the sun before it became cloudy. 59 degrees.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Harvester 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 4

Harvester

Harvester

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest
Sarpy County, NE

It was around 60 degrees and sunny. I was out for 1.5 hours. On Thursday we had 8 inches of snow so didn’t know exactly what I would see. Earlier in the week we had 4 days with temperatures 25 degrees or lower at night.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Spring Azure 6
  • Red Admiral 1

Black Swallowtail

Spring Azure

Red Admiral

Hans Johnson

Naples Zoo
Collier County, FL

Atalas are regularly seen at the Naples Botanical Garden, but this is the first time I have seen them at the zoo which is a few miles to the north. The zoo is closed, but these guys were in the parking lot.

  • Atala 20

Atala

Gina Thomas

my growbox, with mostly herbs in my backyard
Hillsborough County, FL

Horace Duskywing on an onion bloom, first time I’ve seen it in another area of my yard. Hot and sunny, a day after a long and rough thunderstorm.

  • Orange Sulphur abundant
  • Gulf Fritillary abundant
  • Monarch abundant
  • Horace's Duskywing 1

Horace's Duskywing

Horace's Duskywing

Randy Harrod

Ellington Ag Center Nashville
Davidson County, TN

First Giant I’ve seen at park. Sunny and warm. Near 70

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Sleepy Orange 1

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest
Sarpy County, NE

Worked different trails at Fontenelle Forest today than yesterday. It is one of the places that is open during this time. Was around 65 degrees and sunny.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spring Azure 6
  • Eastern Comma 2

Eastern Comma

Spring Azure

Spring Azure

Edward Perry IV

My backyard, Melbourne, FL (1770 Mason Terrace, Melbourne, FL, 32935)
Brevard County, FL

The Southern Great White butterfly eggs, all 43 of them, hatched today. I did my best with artificial light (as it was overcast all morning) to try and photograph the process. It took five full days from oviposition by the mother to hatching of the larvae. The eggs were deposited on garden turnip, Brassica rapa. EPerry

  • Great Southern White

Great Southern White caterpillars

Great Southern White caterpillars

Great Southern White caterpillars

Jay Watson

Backyard Rosecrans
Manitowoc County, WI

In woods across the road.

  • Mourning Cloak 2

Mourning Cloak

John and Nancy Crosby

Harris Neck NWR
McIntosh County, GA

78 degrees, mostly sunny, windy.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 1
  • Oak Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Little Metalmark 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 22
  • American Lady 4
  • Common Buckeye 20
  • Monarch 6
  • Northern Cloudywing 3
  • Fiery Skipper 7
  • Whirlabout 4
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 15

Common Buckeye

Common Buckeye

Eufala Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Giant Swallowtail

Great Purple Hairstreak

Gulf Fritillary

Monarch

Oak Hairstreak

Palamedes Swallowtail

Northern Cloudywing

Phaon Crescent

Twin-spot Skipper

Salt Marsh Skipper

Phaon Crescent

Fiery Skipper

Ceraunus Blue

Black Swallowtail

Barred Yellow

Barred Yellow

American Lady

Lee Snyder

Alhambra Way (OBSU) and Boyd Hill Nature Preserve (READ)
Pinellas County, FL

Orange-barred Sulphur laying eggs on Cassia sp.

  • Great Southern White
  • Orange-barred Sulphur common
  • Dainty Sulphur common
  • Gulf Fritillary abundant
  • Zebra Heliconian abundant
  • Red Admiral 1
  • White Peacock abundant
  • Monarch
  • Horace's Duskywing abundant
  • Fiery Skipper superabundant

Red Admiral

Red Admiral

Orange-barred Sulphur

Jim Wilkinson

Columbia Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

  • Falcate Orangetip 1

Falcate Orangetip

Jeanette Klodzen

Lambs Canyon Rd to Trail Head
Salt Lake County, UT

Partly Cloudy, mid-60s. Elevation: ~6200ft
Walked the 1.5 miles of road to trail head
Road is mostly melted except the last 1/2 mile or so

  • Satyr Comma
  • California Tortoiseshell
  • Mourning Cloak

Brant Reif

Elk Rock State Park
Marion County, IA

Sun was out, and the temperature was in the high 50s around noon. The park is still open, but the campground, some parking areas, and the facilities are closed.

  • Henry's Elfin 6
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 1

Henry's Elfin

Ronda G Spink

Dixie Mainline Road, Old Town
Dixie County, FL

Start weather: Clear, 72°, 4mph wind
End weather: Clear, 78° 4mph wind
Start time: 10:15am
End time: 4:45pm
R Spink and B Woodmansee

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Oak Hairstreak 4
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Phaon Crescent 41
  • Pearl Crescent 31
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 1
  • Viceroy 3
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 3
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Byssus Skipper 3
  • Twin-spot Skipper 11
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 24

Randy Harrod

Home garden
Davidson County, TN

Fos

  • Red Admiral 1

Joanne Langabee

my yard in Bellevue, NE
Sarpy County, NE

Gorgeous day today. I was surprised to see the Pearl Crescent this early in the spring. Also saw Cabbage whites. Around 70 degrees, sunny and little wind

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1

Pearl Crescent

Pearl Crescent

Pearl Crescent

John and Nancy Crosby

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

80 degrees, sunny & breezy after 2” of rain brought out some new species. We have never seen more than 1 White M Hairstreak in a season but this year we saw one at Harris Neck NWR and now 3 at this location all within a few inches of each other!

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 4
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Oak Hairstreak 4
  • White M Hairstreak 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • American Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Southern Pearly-eye 1
  • Carolina Satyr 18
  • Little Wood-Satyr 10
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Little Glassywing 6
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 10

White M Hairstreak

Gray Hairstreak

Oak Hairstreak

Zabulon Skipper

Little Glassywing

Whirlabout

Little Glassywing

Tom Palmer

Hilochee WMA-Osprey Unit
Polk County, FL

Few grass skippers; dry conditions

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Great Southern White 14
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 9
  • Variegated Fritillary 6
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • White Peacock 2
  • Viceroy 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1

Jim Wilkinson

Columbia Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Juniper Hairstreak 2

Juniper Hairstreak

Allen Belden

James River Park: The Wetlands area
Richmond city, VA

Sunny, high in the upper 60s.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • American Snout 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3

Ronda G Spink

Lower Suwannee NWR, South Entrance to North Entrance
Levy County, FL

Start weather: Clear, 72°, calm wind
End weather: Hazy, 81°, calm wind
Start time: 9:45am
End time: 5:30pm
R Spink and B Woodmansee

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 11
  • Southern Dogface 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 9
  • Little Yellow 5
  • Oak Hairstreak 6
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • American Snout 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 371
  • Pearl Crescent 356
  • Question Mark 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 1
  • Viceroy 2
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Tawny Emperor 1
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Little Wood-Satyr 2
  • Monarch 6
  • Queen 23
  • Horace's Duskywing 11
  • Swarthy Skipper 3
  • Neamathla Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 8
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Byssus Skipper 13
  • Broad-winged Skipper 4
  • Palatka Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 10

Scott Anderson

Scherer Thaxton
Sarasota County, FL

215-445pm, 85 degrees, sunny, calm

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 7
  • Great Southern White 5
  • Dainty Sulphur 21
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 9
  • Little Metalmark 18
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 5
  • Phaon Crescent 26
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Common Buckeye 7
  • White Peacock 5
  • Viceroy 1
  • Monarch 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Twin-spot Skipper 12

Common Buckeye

Monarch

Gray Hairstreak

Gray Hairstreak

Little Metalmark

Twin-spot Skipper

Little Metalmark

Fiery Skipper

David H. Bartholomew

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

Ninebark is starting to come into bloom; checkerspots, pale swallowtail & ringlets visiting the flowers. Other nectar sources present now are blackberries and mustards.

  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Pale Swallowtail 3
  • Mustard White 5
  • Sara Orangetip 6
  • Bramble Hairstreak 3
  • Brown Elfin 5
  • Spring Azure 22
  • Silvery Blue 8
  • Northern Checkerspot 5
  • Variable Checkerspot 34
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Painted Lady 6
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Lorquin's Admiral 1
  • California Sister 1
  • Common Ringlet 34
  • Propertius Duskywing 1
  • Mournful Duskywing 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Umber Skipper 1

Sara Orangetip

Bramble Hairstreak

Brown Elfin

Silvery Blue

Spring Azure

Northern Checkerspot

Variable Checkerspot

Variable Checkerspot

Denis C. Quinn

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

At the time of these sightings, 09:30 the temperature was only 40.5°, full sunshine, and very windy.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1

Ron Smith

Weedon Island Preserve
Pinellas County, FL

(15-70). A nice spring season count of Statiras. All were at, or very near, their hostplant, coinvine, but females deposited in an instant and were hard to photograph.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • Statira Sulphur 8
  • Barred Yellow 3
  • Dainty Sulphur 8
  • Ceraunus Blue 6
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • Mangrove Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 21
  • Monarch 2
  • Mangrove Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 7

White Checkered-Skipper

Mangrove Buckeye

Dainty Sulphur

Dainty Sulphur

Ceraunus Blue

Statira Sulphur

Statira Sulphur

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest
Sarpy County, NE

Went to the prairie and wetland section of the forest today. It was 73 degrees and sunny. Saw our first Clouded Sulphur.

  • Cabbage White 6
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Eastern Comma 1

Clouded Sulphur

Clouded Sulphur

Mimi Gardenerd

Peaceful Ridge Trail
Broward County, FL

Sunny breezy 90 degrees on the trail from 9 am till noon observed the recorded butterflies

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 1
  • Zebra Swallowtail 15
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Florida White 1
  • Great Southern White 12
  • Lyside Sulphur 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 22
  • Atala 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Julia Heliconian 12
  • Zebra Heliconian 12
  • Monarch 10
  • Mangrove Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 12
  • Horace's Duskywing 5
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 5

Dainty Sulphur

Fiery Skipper

Great Southern White

Julia Heliconian

Zebra Heliconian

White Peacock

Tropical Checkered-Skipper

Monarch

Phaon Crescent

Julia Heliconian

Julia Heliconian

Dorantes Longtail

John and Nancy Crosby

Harris Neck NWR, Barbour River Landing Meadow
McIntosh County, GA

76 degrees with gusty wind just prior to thunder storms.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Barred Yellow 15
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 4
  • Oak Hairstreak 1
  • Phaon Crescent 9
  • American Lady 4
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 8
  • Monarch 4
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 6
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 12

Fiery Skipper

Northern Broken-Dash

Oak Hairstreak

Black Swallowtail

Common Buckeye

Eufala Skipper

Eufala Skipper

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

Great Purple Hairstreak

Phaon Crescent

Sachem

Salt Marsh Skipper

Twin-spot Skipper

Whirlabout

Whirlabout

Monarch

Barred Yellow

Painted Lady

American Lady

American Lady

Bart Jones

Clifton Bend NABA Count Circle
Decatur County, TN

Today was the first day state natural areas were reopened, so we did our NABA count, kept participant numbers small, wore masks, and kept social distancing guidelines. Sorry for the poor quality iPhone pictures.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 8
  • Zebra Swallowtail 19
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 43
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 12
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 15
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 23
  • American Snout 1
  • Pearl Crescent 57
  • Question Mark 2
  • American Lady 3
  • Painted Lady 5
  • Red Admiral 4
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Goatweed Leafwing 13
  • Carolina Satyr 19
  • Monarch 10
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Hoary Edge 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 6
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 24
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 11
  • Dusted Skipper 29
  • Pepper and Salt Skipper 1

Zabulon Skipper

Red-spotted Purple

Giant Swallowtail

Goatweed Leafwing

Zebra Swallowtail

Jeanette Klodzen

Lambs Canyon Rd
Salt Lake County, UT

Partly cloudy, mid-50s. (~6300ft)

Walked 1.5 miles to the trail head and about 100 yards of the snow covered trail. One Mourning Cloak and a Green Comma were found on the trail.

Green Commas and Mourning Cloaks were also found on the road.

  • Satyr Comma
  • Green Comma
  • Mourning Cloak

Green Comma

Mourning Cloak

Laurel Rhodes

YMCA Roberts Ranch in Comfort TX
Kendall County, TX

With Dusty Rhodes. Sunny, 88-92F, winds 15-20mph. Antelope Horn Milkweed was the most sought after nectar source. Hiked 1.5 mi along the ranch road and surroundings for 2.5 hrs.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Orange Sulphur abundant
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Sleepy Orange abundant
  • Dainty Sulphur 8
  • Oak Hairstreak 8
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Marine Blue 2
  • Reakirt's Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 12
  • Bordered Patch 2
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • American Lady abundant
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Red Admiral 7
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Little Wood-Satyr 5
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Green Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

American Lady

Oak Hairstreak

Variegated Fritillary

Common Buckeye

Green Skipper

Little Wood-Satyr

John and Nancy Crosby

Priester Subdivision near Shellman Bluff 31331
McIntosh County, GA

76 degrees, sunny, breezy. The Red-spotted Purple is only the third we have seen in Georgia, all in McIntosh County, in 16 years.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 3

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Palamedes Swallowtail

Palamedes Swallowtail

Red-spotted Purple

Red-spotted Purple

Whirlabout

Twin-spot Skipper

John and Nancy Crosby

Harris Neck NWR, Barbour River Landing Meadow
McIntosh County, GA

74 degrees, cloudy, windy after 2.5” rain. I don’t think we’ve ever seen an American Snout in Georgia!

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow 23
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 2
  • Oak Hairstreak 4
  • American Snout 1
  • Phaon Crescent 12
  • American Lady 7
  • Painted Lady 5
  • Common Buckeye 15
  • Monarch 7
  • Southern Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 12
  • Whirlabout 15
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 3
  • Eufala Skipper 5
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 48

Black Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Clouded Skipper

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Fiery Skipper

Giant Swallowtail

Great Purple Hairstreak

Horace's Duskywing

Horace's Duskywing

Northern Broken-Dash

Oak Hairstreak

Painted Lady

Salt Marsh Skipper

Southern Broken-Dash

Southern Cloudywing

Southern Cloudywing

Southern Broken-Dash

Sachem

Phaon Crescent

Northern Broken-Dash

Monarch

Eufala Skipper

Common Buckeye

Barred Yellow

American Snout

American Lady

Andrew Block

Great Swamp N.W.R., Harding Twp.,
Morris County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1

Ronald Hedden

Tibbits State Forest
Rensselaer County, NY

  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Eastern Comma 2

Eastern Pine Elfin

Glenn Koppel

Swamp Run Road, Butler
Butler County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 4

Glenn Koppel

State Game Lands 95
Butler County, PA

  • Cabbage White 16
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2

Red Admiral

James L. Monroe

State Game Land #285
Beaver County, PA

mid-60’s, slightly overcast

An unIDed Azure was seen, most likely based on date a Spring Azure, in addition to the two definite species

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Ken Wilson

Escondido yard
San Diego County, CA

List for the pat week. Butterfly activity remains slow overall due to cooler weather for the majority of April. Weather has been warmer the past week.

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Sara Orangetip
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Mourning Cloak
  • Painted Lady
  • Red Admiral
  • Monarch
  • Funereal Duskywing
  • Fiery Skipper
  • Umber Skipper

Joanne Langabee

bellevue, NE
Sarpy County, NE

I participated in the City Nature Challenge today going around Bellevue recording what I saw. The following are the butterflies that I was able to observe. First Eastern Tiger Swallowtail for the year.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 2

Red Admiral

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Comma

John and Nancy Crosby

Harris Neck NWR Barbour River Landing Meadow
McIntosh County, GA

Sunny, 82 degrees, breezy. Helitrope and Pinewood Milkweed were main nectar sources.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Barred Yellow 18
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 4
  • Oak Hairstreak 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • American Lady 3
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 23
  • Monarch 8
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 12
  • Whirlabout 15
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 30

American Lady

Barred Yellow

Black Swallowtail

Common Buckeye

Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Giant Swallowtail

Gray Hairstreak

Oak Hairstreak

Horace's Duskywing

Little Yellow

Monarch

Palamedes Swallowtail

Phaon Crescent

Pipevine Swallowtail

Pipevine Swallowtail

Sachem

Salt Marsh Skipper

Twin-spot Skipper

Whirlabout

Gulf Fritillary

Great Purple Hairstreak

John and Nancy Crosby

Intersection of Shellman Bluff Rd & Pine Harbor Rd, Shellman Bluff, GA near US Highway 17.
McIntosh County, GA

We are concerned about this habitat as county mowers go deep into the ditch and mow down the beautiful pickerel lily in mid-May when it supports as many as 40 species of butterflies includling the Rare Skipper and other endangered skippers despite negotiations.

  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Eufala Skipper 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 5

Whirlabout

Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Eufala Skipper

Common Checkered-Skipper

John and Nancy Crosby

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

We have never seen a Pearl Crescent in our section of McIntosh County and never seen a Crescent in the woods here at Tabby Oaks. Apparently the blooming Sparkleberry bought it and the American Lady over from the nearby causeway.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 7
  • Oak Hairstreak 75
  • White M Hairstreak 4
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Southern Pearly-eye 1
  • Carolina Satyr 8
  • Little Wood-Satyr 6
  • Northern Cloudywing 2
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 4
  • Dun Skipper 2
  • Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 20

Carolina Satyr

Zabulon Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Dun Skipper

Dun Skipper

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper

Little Wood-Satyr

Northern Cloudywing

Oak Hairstreak

Palamedes Swallowtail

Pearl Crescent

Salt Marsh Skipper

Southern Cloudywing

Spicebush Swallowtail

Twin-spot Skipper

White M Hairstreak

Zabulon Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Zebra Swallowtail

American Lady

John and Nancy Crosby

Harris Neck NWR
McIntosh County, GA

74 degrees cloudy, windy.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Oak Hairstreak 1
  • Phaon Crescent 15
  • American Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 12
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Little Wood-Satyr 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Whirlabout 12
  • Sachem 1
  • Eufala Skipper 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 20

Black Swallowtail

Little Wood-Satyr

Salt Marsh Skipper

Oak Hairstreak

Carolina Satyr

Mike Reese, Karen Oberhauser

Necedah NWR
Juneau County, WI

Best day of the year so far, with temps in the upper 60s, sunny, and light winds. Surprised to see a Painted Lady, the first in the state this year. Unusual because we still haven’t seen an American Lady or Red Admiral this year.

  • Olympia Marble 2
  • Brown Elfin 2
  • Mourning Cloak 8
  • Painted Lady 1

Painted Lady

Brown Elfin

'Spring' Spring Azure

Bart Jones

Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park
Shelby County, TN

  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Orange Sulphur 11
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Question Mark 1
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Red Admiral 5
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Carolina Satyr 14
  • Monarch 6
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Red-spotted Purple

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Painted Lady

Orange Sulphur

Cloudless Sulphur

Lisa Quartararo

Woodbridge twsp
Middlesex County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red Admiral 1

Jay Watson

End of Vista Dr. Porterfield
Marinette County, WI

Seen while building pasture fence.

  • Mourning Cloak 1

John and Nancy Crosby

Harris Neck NWR, Barbour River Landing Meadow
McIntosh County, GA

85 degrees with gusty wind.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 4
  • Oak Hairstreak 6
  • White M Hairstreak 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Phaon Crescent 8
  • American Lady 4
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 22
  • Monarch 8
  • Southern Cloudywing 1
  • Fiery Skipper 6
  • Whirlabout 10
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 25

Gulf Fritillary

Oak Hairstreak

Little Yellow

Palamedes Swallowtail

Southern Broken-Dash

White M Hairstreak

Red Admiral

Monarch

Great Purple Hairstreak

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Common Buckeye

Barred Yellow

American Lady

Dale Kennedy

Whitehouse Nature Center
Calhoun County, MI

relatively nice day but windy

  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Mourning Cloak 1

John Lampkin

Scherer Thaxton Preserve
Sarasota County, FL

With Jane Lampkin 9:30 - 11:30; comfortable mid-70’s

  • Great Southern White 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 38
  • Ceraunus Blue 7
  • Little Metalmark 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Phaon Crescent 7
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 6
  • Monarch 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 3
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 6
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Delaware Skipper 3
  • Twin-spot Skipper 19

Laurel Rhodes

Lost Maples State Natural Area in Vanderpool
Bandera County, TX

With Dusty Rhodes (photos). 10:00 AM-2:30PM. 78-85F, winds 10-15 mph. Hiked 2 miles on trails, meadows, edges. Most popular nectar: Antelope-Horn Milkweed, Prairie Verbena and Pincushion Daisy.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 6
  • Orange Sulphur abundant
  • Southern Dogface 4
  • Sleepy Orange abundant
  • Oak Hairstreak 7
  • Juniper Hairstreak 12
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Reakirt's Blue 4
  • Acmon Blue 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 4
  • American Lady 10
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 6
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Acmon Blue

Acmon Blue

Northern Cloudywing

Juniper Hairstreak

Variegated Fritillary

Dun Skipper

Oak Hairstreak

John Heyse

at home, Crockett
Contra Costa County, CA

76F

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 10+
  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Large Marble 1
  • Silvery Blue 1
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 3

Scott Anderson

Sleeping Turtles Preserve North
Sarasota County, FL

1130am-245pm, 72-75 degrees, sunny, light wind

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 8
  • Dainty Sulphur 79
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 48
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 6
  • Phaon Crescent 6
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • White Peacock 5
  • Queen 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 6
  • White Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 2

David H. Bartholomew

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

Spring weather in the 70’s, but everything is drying out. Chalcedon Checkerspots and Common Ringlets outnumber everything else by far. Nearly stepped on a Rattle Snake, no warning until I tried to get it off the trail.

  • Pale Swallowtail 1
  • Mustard White 4
  • Brown Elfin 6
  • Spring Azure 6
  • Northern Checkerspot 4
  • Variable Checkerspot 77
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Painted Lady 9
  • Lorquin's Admiral 1
  • California Sister 1
  • Common Ringlet 33
  • Umber Skipper 4

Umber Skipper

Northern Checkerspot

Lorquin's Admiral

Brown Elfin

John and Nancy Crosby

Old Shellman Bluff Road, Shellman Bluff, GA
McIntosh County, GA

85 degrees & sunny. Roadside Sparkleberry was all we checked.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 3
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Banded Hairstreak 8
  • Oak Hairstreak 30
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 10
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 2

Common Buckeye

Spring Azure

Gray Hairstreak

Banded Hairstreak

Oak Hairstreak

Gina Thomas

my back yard butterfly garden, Tampa Heights
Hillsborough County, FL

Cool day, dry and pleasant. Monarch laying eggs.

  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Monarch 1

Gulf Fritillary

Gulf Fritillary caterpillar

Gulf Fritillarycaterpillar

Monarch

Jeanette Klodzen

Lambs Canyon Rd (and just a bit of the trail)
Salt Lake County, UT

Mid 60s and sunny. (Road is melted and clear to the trail head) (~6500ft)

Saw 3 Blues at the lower end of the canyon. Could not ID.

  • Sara Orangetip 2
  • Satyr Comma
  • Green Comma
  • Hoary Comma
  • California Tortoiseshell 1
  • Mourning Cloak 4

Mark and Holly Salvato

Highlands area, Vero Beach
Indian River County, FL

  • Great Southern White
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • Cassius Blue
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Zebra Heliconian
  • Monk Skipper 1

Monk Skipper

Monk Skipper

Ronda G Spink

Lower Suwannee NWR, North Entrance to South Entrance Nature Drive
Levy County, FL

Start weather: Clear, 59°, calm wind
End weather: Clear, 82°, calm wind
Start time: 9:00am
End time: 4:45pm
We ended the count at gate #25
R. Spink and B. Woodmansee

  • Zebra Swallowtail 8
  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 6
  • Checkered White 1
  • Southern Dogface 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 54
  • Oak Hairstreak 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 127
  • Pearl Crescent 226
  • Question Mark 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Viceroy 3
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Appalachian Brown 2
  • Carolina Satyr 21
  • Monarch 9
  • Queen 36
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 7
  • Fiery Skipper 7
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Byssus Skipper 4
  • Twin-spot Skipper 7

Mimi Gardenerd

Peaceful Ridge Trail
Broward County, FL

On the trail 9- 12 pm sunny, light breeze, 90 degrees, rainy season has begun in south Florida leaving puddles for wildlife.

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 10
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 50
  • Atala 22
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Julia Heliconian 12
  • Zebra Heliconian 55
  • Phaon Crescent 25
  • White Peacock 20
  • Ruddy Daggerwing 2
  • Monarch 5
  • Dorantes Longtail 12
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 12
  • Fiery Skipper 8

Atala

Dorantes Longtail

Fiery Skipper

Black Swallowtail

Great Southern White

Gulf Fritillary

Ruddy Daggerwing

Tropical Checkered-Skipper

Polydamas Swallowtail

Zebra Heliconian

Phaon Crescent

Julia Heliconian

Monarch

Dale Kennedy

Whitehouse Nature Center
Calhoun County, MI

seen while birding; 9:30 am-12:15 pm

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 2

Karen Canon

Albuquerque.
Bernalillo County, NM

Suburban foothills. Late morning,high 70’s and sunny.

  • Checkered White 6
  • Common Buckeye 2

Common Buckeye

Checkered White

Jeff Gesell

Jacobsburg State Park
Northampton County, PA

Sunny, breezy, mid 60s

  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Jim Wilkinson

Columbia Gateway Business Park
Howard County, MD

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1

Juniper Hairstreak

Linda Cooper

Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Weather: 77°-87°; winds 9-13 mph; partly cloudy all day. Nectar: thistles, buttonbush, pickerelweed, spermacoce, palmetto, Spanish needles. LCooper

  • Zebra Swallowtail 27
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Little Yellow 30
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 6
  • Ceraunus Blue 17
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 10
  • Carolina Satyr 8
  • Queen 2
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 5
  • Zarucco Duskywing 7
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Arogos Skipper 2
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Aaron's Skipper 1
  • Dusted Skipper 33
  • Twin-spot Skipper 7

Dusted Skipper

Ceraunus Blue

Carolina Satyr

Black Swallowtail

Dusted Skipper

Twin-spot Skipper

Zebra Swallowtail

Horace's Duskywing

Arogos Skipper

Pearl Crescent

Mark and Holly Salvato

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

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Great Southern White 2
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Fulvous Hairstreak 2
  • Cassius Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Zebra Heliconian
  • White Peacock
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Monk Skipper 1

Monk Skipper

Spicebush Swallowtail

Whirlabout

Fulvous Hairstreak

Edward Perry IV

1770 Mason Terrace, Melbourne, FL, 32935
Brevard County, FL

Yard Butterflies. The Orange-barred Sulphur was a female ovipositing on Cassia alata (look closely and you’ll see a fresh, white egg).

  • Polydamas Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 1
  • Cassius Blue 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • White Peacock 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 2

Orange-barred Sulphur

Orange-barred Sulphur

Orange-barred Sulphur

Horace's Duskywing

Cloudless Sulphur

Great Southern White

Zebra Heliconian

Kathy Beza Richardson

Harrison Lake National Fish Hatchery
Charles City County, VA

Partly cloudy, mid 60’s to low 70’s

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail common
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Pearl Crescent

Fiery Skipper

Red-spotted Purple

Red-banded Hairstreak

Karen Canon

Albuquerque
Bernalillo County, NM

Mid afternoon, 80’s and sunny. Suburban foothills.

  • Checkered White 4
  • Common Buckeye 5

Common Buckeye

Lee Snyder

Alhambra Way
Pinellas County, FL

Warm (80-83), dry, sunny, noon EDT

  • Great Southern White 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary abundant
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • White Peacock 4
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper abundant

Clouded Skipper

John R Cohrac

Landisville home
Lancaster County, PA

Cabbage white flying by plants on deck

  • Cabbage White 1

Jeanette Klodzen

Lambs Canyon Rd
Salt Lake County, UT

Mid-60s, sunny - Went after 3pm

And one Comma flying high in pines

  • Sara Orangetip 5
  • Spring Azure 3
  • Mourning Cloak 4
  • Painted Lady 1

Denis C. Quinn

End of Old River Road off of PA 372
Lancaster County, PA

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 3
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1

Venice Kelly

trail is close to the intersection of south beaver creek road and SH 72
Gilpin County, CO

the weather was totally overcast and windy but 65F so nice temp. these are the first elfins i have seen this year. they are coming out now that most of the snow is melting. elevation:8,300 feet.

  • Brown Elfin 1
  • Hoary Elfin 5

Hoary Elfin

Brown Elfin

Joanne Langabee

Fontenelle Forest
Sarpy County, NE

The butterflies seen today are from my weekly survey of Fontenelle Forest. Today was 70 degrees, sunny and little wind. I was out for 3 hours. I was very surprised to see the Goatweed Leafwing and the Zebra Swallowtail. The Zebra Swallowtail doesn’t usually get this far north but with climate change who knows.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 13
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Spring Azure 4
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Red Admiral 38
  • Goatweed Leafwing 1

Cabbage White

Spring Azure

Goatweed Leafwing

Red Admiral

Zebra Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Zebra Swallowtail

Mimi Gardenerd

Peaceful Ridge Trail
Broward County, FL

On the trail 9-11 am with breezy, sunny dark clouds imposing thunderstorms sent me back to the nest. 🦋🌱

  • Great Southern White 2
  • Dainty Sulphur 12
  • Atala 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Julia Heliconian 12
  • Zebra Heliconian 24
  • Phaon Crescent 12
  • White Peacock 12
  • Ruddy Daggerwing 4
  • Monarch 12
  • Mangrove Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 10
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 12
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 12

Dorantes Longtail

Fiery Skipper

Zebra Heliconian

Monarch

White Peacock

Monarch

Tropical Checkered-Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

Horace's Duskywing

Dainty Sulphur

Clouded Skipper

John and Nancy Crosby

Old Shellman Bluff Road near Priester Road
McIntosh County, GA

75degrees, gusty wind after 1/2” rain this am.

  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Banded Hairstreak 2
  • Oak Hairstreak 15
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 6

Banded Hairstreak

Banded Hairstreak

John and Nancy Crosby

Harris Neck NWR, Barbour River Landing Meadow
McIntosh County, GA

75 degrees, gusty winds after 1/2” rain earlier today.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Barred Yellow 30
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 4
  • Oak Hairstreak 30
  • White M Hairstreak 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Phaon Crescent 4
  • American Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 15
  • Monarch 10
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Fiery Skipper 6
  • Whirlabout 9
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 2
  • Sachem 1
  • Eufala Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 3
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 15

Monarch

Southern Broken-Dash

Horace's Duskywing

Twin-spot Skipper

Oak Hairstreak

White M Hairstreak

Great Purple Hairstreak

Black Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail