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Recent North American Butterfly Sightings
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I've Seen (BIS) database. By doing so, your sightings will become part of a national database that
will be used by scientists to study butterfly biology and distribution. Once entered, your day list can be easily
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***Monthly archived sightings***
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November 20, 2008
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Cloudless Sulphur (2)
Barred Yellow (8)
Little Yellow (1)
Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak (1)
Cassius Blue (8)
Ceraunus Blue (3)
Little Metalmark (1)
Gulf Fritillary (26)
Zebra Heliconian (6)
Phaon Crescent (2)
White Peacock (3)
Queen (7)
Long-tailed Skipper (5)
Tropical Checkered-Skipper (16)
Least Skipper (1)
Whirlabout (3)
Ocola Skipper (7)
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Everglades NP (Long Pine Key and Royal Palm areas), FL (J Monroe)
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November 19, 2008
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West Coast Lady (1)
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Arboretum at University Of California Santa Cruz, CA (E Vollmer)
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November 18, 2008
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Great Southern White (3)
Barred Yellow (1)
Little Yellow (3)
Cassius Blue (15)
Ceraunus Blue (12)
Gulf Fritillary (8)
Zebra Heliconian (14)
Tropical Buckeye (1)
Queen (24)
Mangrove Skipper (2)
Tropical Checkered-Skipper (1)
Whirlabout (7)
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Everglades NP, south end near Ecopond, FL (J Monroe)
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November 17, 2008
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Orange Sulphur (1)
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Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, NY (T Fiore, K Wallstrom)
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November 17, 2008
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Cloudless Sulphur (3)
Barred Yellow (1)
Cassius Blue (30)
Gulf Fritillary (6)
Zebra Heliconian (24)
White Peacock (12)
Viceroy (2)
Florida Leafwing (1)
Monarch (1)
Queen (3)
Long-tailed Skipper (3)
Dorantes Longtail (2)
Tropical Checkered-Skipper (5)
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Everglades NP, Royal Palm and Big Pine Keys trails, FL (J Monroe)
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November 16, 2008
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West Coast Lady (new for the county)
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Wilson Co., TX (W Sekula)
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November 16, 2008
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Pipevine Swallowtail (1)
Checkered White (2)
Orange Sulphur (10)
Southern Dogface (7)
Large Orange Sulphur (3)
Little Yellow (10)
Sleepy Orange (18)
Dainty Sulphur (21)
Great Purple Hairstreak (2)
Gray Hairstreak (4)
Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak (5)
Marine Blue (1)
Ceraunus Blue (7)
Reakirt's Blue (5)
Rounded Metalmark (12)
Red-bordered Metalmark (8)
American Snout (10)
Gulf Fritillary (3)
Variegated Fritillary (16)
Texan Crescent (1)
Vesta Crescent (1)
American Lady (2)
Painted Lady (7)
Common Mestra (2)
Queen (12)
Soldier (1)
Coyote Cloudywing (1)
Sickle-winged Skipper (2)
Common/White Checkered-Skipper (30)
Desert Checkered-Skipper (2)
Laviana White-Skipper (2)
Turk's-cap White-Skipper (1)
Julia's Skipper (3)
Clouded Skipper (7)
Southern Skipperling (15)
Fiery Skipper (4)
Whirlabout (1)
Sachem (4)
Celia's Roadside-Skipper (1)
Eufala Skipper (22)
Ocola Skipper (3)
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11 miles northwest of Yorktown, Dewitt Co., TX (D Muschalek)
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November 16, 2008
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Southern Dogface
Julia Heliconian
Zebra Heliconian
Band-celled Sister
Common Mestra
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Brownsville, TX (M Baldwin)
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November 15, 2008
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Giant Swallowtail (11)
Atala (2)
Cloudless Sulphur (2)
Barred Yellow (1)
Cassius Blue (35)
Gulf Fritillary (5)
Julia (2)
Zebra Helliconian (13)
White Peacock (5)
Malachite (2)
Dorantes Swallowtail (15)
Tropical Checkered-Skipper (13)
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Tree Tops Park, Davie, Broward Co., FL (K Keating E & C Gavilán)
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November 13, 2008
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Zebra Swallowtail (1)
Black Swallowtail (2)
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (1)
Spicebush Swallowtail (1)
Palamedes Swallowtail (14)
Great Southern White (1)
Cloudless Sulphur (16)
Barred Yellow (63)
Little Yellow (21)
Sleepy Orange (9)
White M Hairstreak (1)
Red-banded Hairstreak (5)
Little Metalmark (13)
Gulf Fritillary (108)
Zebra Heliconian (31)
Pearl Crescent (1)
Common Buckeye (1)
White Peacock (11)
Viceroy (8)
Tawny Emperor (1)
Carolina Satyr (141)
Monarch (2)
Queen (103)
Long-tailed Skipper (12)
Dorantes Longtail (15)
Horace's Duskywing (1)
Three-spotted Skipper (1)
Clouded Skipper (13)
Least Skipper (2)
Southern Skipperling (2)
Fiery Skipper (2)
Whirlabout (2)
Southern Broken-Dash (1)
Monk Skipper (1)
Twin-spot Skipper (2)
Brazilian Skipper (1)(also 2 caterpillars on Thalia geniculata)
Ocola Skipper (47)
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Lake Kissimmee State Park, FL (L Cooper, B Cooper, J DuBois, D Cutler, M Cutler, B Bindschadler, J Bindschadler,
E Egensteiner)
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November 12, 2008
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Zebra Swallowtail (1)
Cloudless Sulphur
Barred Yellow (3)
Little Yellow (6)
Dainty Sulphur (5)
Red-banded Hairstreak (1)
Gulf Fritillary (10)
Zebra Heliconian
Phaon Crescent (7)
Common Buckeye (5)
White Peacock (1)
Carolina Satyr (3)
Long-tailed Skipper
Tropical Checkered-Skipper (1)
Southern Skipperling (1)
Fiery Skipper (5)
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Osceola Wildlife Management Area, FL (J Monroe)
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November 11, 2008
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Mexican Silverspot (1)
Julia Heliconian (1)
Isabella Heliconian (1)
Zebra Heliconian (37) (Many roosting together)
Malchite (7)
Mexican Bluewing (9)
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NABA Butterfly Park, Mission, TX (G Quintanilla)
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November 11, 2008
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Monarch (1)
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Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Howard Beach, Queens Co., NY (A Block, M Schwartz)
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November 9, 2008
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Checkered White (1)
Cabbage White (20+)
Orange Sulphur (30+)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Pearl Crescent (1)
American Lady (2)
Common Buckeye (1)
Monarch (3)
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Rockaway peninsula, Queens Co., NY (T Fiore)
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November 9, 2008
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Orange Sulphur (2)
Cloudless Sulphur (3)
Common Buckeye (2)
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Maurice River Botanical Garden, Heislerville, Cumberland Co., NJ (J E DiOrio)
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November 9, 2008
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Cabbage White (1)
Common Buckeye (9)
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Nottingham County Park, PA (A Loudell)
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November 8, 2008
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Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreak (23) (nectaring in a ten
yard strip of Waltheria indica)
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Ranch, San Isidro, Starr Co., TX (C Traylor)
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November 6, 2008
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Common Checkered-Skipper (Late; 1st in Windsor area since 1988)
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Ojibway Prairie , Windsor, ON (Ontario Butterflies Google Group: R Jones)
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November 3, 2008
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West Coast Lady (1)
Common Buckeye (12)
Umber Skipper (1)
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Arboretum at University Of California Santa Cruz, CA (E Vollmer)
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November 3, 2008
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Cloudless Sulphur (2)
Orange Sulphur (5)
Common Buckeye (2)
Clouded Sulphur (1) (torn lower wings)
Sachem (2)
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Maurice River Botanical Garden, Heislerville, Cumberland Co., NJ ( J E DiOrio)
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November 2, 2008
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Checkered White
Cabbage White
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface
Cloudless Sulphur
Lyside Sulphur
Mexican Yellow
Tailed Orange
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Gray Hairstreak
Leda Ministreak
Western pygmy-Blue
Ceraunus Blue
Reakirt's Blue
Acmon Blue
Fatal Metalmark
Monarch
Queen
Gulf Fritillary
Variegated Fritillary
Texan Crescent
American Lady
Painted Lady
West Coast Lady
Common Buckeye
White Checkered-Skipper
Desert Checkered Skipper
Orange Skipperling
Eufala Skipper
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San Pedro River National Conservation Area, AZ (SEABA Field Trip)
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November 2, 2008
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Hammock Skipper (yard butterfly 130!)
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my yard, near Mission Valley, Victoria Co., TX (R & B Wauer)
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November 2, 2008
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Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreak
Clytie Ministreak
Red-bordered Metalmark (~12)
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Ranch, San Isidro, Starr Co., TX (C Traylor)
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November 1, 2008
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Ruddy Daggerwing (5)
Yellow-tipped Flasher (2)
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NABA IBP in Mission, TX (C Traylor)
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November 1, 2008
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Clouded Sulphur (1)
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Cedar Ave exit, I-95, New Rochelle, NY (A Block)
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November 1, 2008
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Cabbage White (1)
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Wild Bird Center, Central Ave., Scarsdale, NY (A Block)
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November 1, 2008
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Cloudless Sulphur (2)
Orange Sulphur (5)
Common Buckeye (2)
Eastern Comma (1)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
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Maurice River Botanical Garden, Heislerville, Cumberland Co., NJ ( J E DiOrio)
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October 31, 2008
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Cabbage White (3)
Orange Sulphur (1)
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Six Mile Run Reservoir Site, Somerset, NJ (V Corsello)
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October 29, 2008
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Mylitta Crescent (1)
West Coast Lady (1)
Common Buckeye (5)
California Sister (1)
Monarch (2)
Fiery Skipper (1)
Woodland Skipper (2)
Umber Skipper (2)
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Arboretum at University Of California Santa Cruz, CA (E Vollmer)
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October 28, 2008
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Yellow-tipped Flasher
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NABA IBP, Mission, TX (C Traylor)
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October 27, 2008
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Common Buckeye (1) (very worn)
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Sunken Meadow S.P., Suffolk Co., NY (A Block)
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October 26, 2008
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Cloudless Sulphur (abundant)
Orange Sulphur (3)
Sleepy Orange (2)
Little Yellow (abundant)
Red-banded Hairstreak (17)
Eastern Tailed-Blue (5)
Gulf Fritillary (abundant)
Variegated Fritillary (abundant)
Pearl Crescent (4)
Phaon Crescent (2)
Painted Lady (2)
Common Buckeye (abundant)
Carolina Satyr (10)
Monarch (9)
Common Checkered-Skipper (13)
Tropical Checkered-Skipper (2)
Swarthy Skipper (6)
Southern Skipperling (1)
Fiery Skipper (abundant)
Whirlabout (7)
Little Glassywing (1)
Sachem (1) (female)
Dun Skipper (1)
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Kisatchie NF, Grant Parish, LA (C Marks)
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October 26, 2008
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Black Swallowtail (1)
Checkered White (4)
Cabbage White (40+)
Orange Sulphur (80+)
Cloudless Sulphur (2)
Little Yellow (1)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Eastern Tailed-Blue (3)
Pearl Crescent (2)
American Lady (5)
Common Buckeye (3)
Monarch (28)
Common Checkered-Skipper (1)
Fiery Skipper (1)
Sachem (4)
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Kings (Brooklyn) & Queens Counties, NY (T Fiore)
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October 26, 2008
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Cabbage White (1)
Orange Sulphur (3)
Variegated Fritillary (2)
Pearl Crescent (2)
Eastern Comma (1)
Common Buckeye (18)
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Nottingham County Park, PA (A Loudell)
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October 26, 2008
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Eastern Comma (1) (Fresh)
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Linn Run State Park, PA (M A Koeneke, G Koppel)
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October 26, 2008
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Cabbage White (2)
Orange Sulphur
Pearl Crescent
Eastern Comma
Common Buckeye
Fiery Skipper (Late for this location)
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Backyard butterfly garden, West Deptford, NJ (D Amadio)
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October 25, 2008
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Pipevine Swallowtail (11)
Black Swallowtail (1)
Giant Swallowtail (36)
Checkered White (5)
Great Southern White (78)
Giant White (2)
Orange Sulphur (20)
Southern Dogface (28)
White-Angled Sulphur (2)
Cloudless Sulphur (11)
Large Orange Sulphur (30)
Lyside Sulphur (21)
Tailed Orange (2)
Little Yellow (35)
Mimosa Yellow (4)
Sleepy Orange (4)
Dainty Sulphur (6)
Great Purple Hairstreak (8)
Marius Hairstreak (3)
Silver-Banded Hairstreak (1)
Clench's Greenstreak (1)
Red-Crescent Scrub-Hairstreak (1)
Gray Hairstreak (20)
Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak (31)
Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak (7)
Dusky-Blue Groundstreak (29)
Clytie Ministreak (1)
Western Pygmy-Blue (9)
Cassius Blue (1)
Ceraunus Blue (9)
Reakirt's Blue (1)
Fatal Metalmark (17)
Rounded Metalmark (6)
Red-Bordered Metalmark (13)
Red-Bordered Pixie (2)
American Snout (250)
Gulf Fritillary (44)
Julia Heliconia (10)
Zebra Heliconian (45)
Variegated Fritillary (11)
Mexican Fritillary (6)
Theona Checkerspot (13)
Bordered Patch (297)
Crimson Patch (11)
Elada Checkerspot (2)
Texan Crescent (5)
Pale-Banded Crescent (13)
Vesta Crescent (17)
Phaon Crescent (82)
Pearl Crescent (7)
American Lady (7)
Painted Ladty (39)
Red Admiral (10)
Common Buckeye (10)
Tropical Buckeye (17)
White Peacock (142)
Banded Peacock (53)
Band-Celled Sister (1)
Mexican Bluewing (15)
Common Mestra (43)
Red Rim (1)
Malachite (39)
Ruddy Daggerwing (1)
Tropical Leafwing (23)
Hackberry Emperor (12)
Empress Leilia (24)
Tawny Emperor (325)
Pavon Emperor (3)
Silver Emperor (4)
Carolina Satyr (33)
Monarch (18)
Queen (325)
Soldier (65)
Guava Skipper (1)
White-Striped Longtail (25)
Zilpa Longtail (10)
Gold-Spotted Aguna (2)
Longtailed Skipper (32)
Dorantes Longtail (79)
Brown Longtail (139) (mated pair)
Two-Barred Flasher (3)
Coyote Cloudywing (2)
Potrillo Skipper (2)
Texas Powdered Skipper (1)
Sickle-Winged Skipper (98)
Brown-Banded Skipper (10)
White-Patched Skipper (16)
Horace's Duskywing (2)
Mournful Duskywing (4)
Funereal Duskywing (7)
Common/White Checkered-Skipper (25)
Tropical Checkered-Skipper (18)
Desert Checkered-Skipper (1)
Laviana White-Skipper (26)
Turk's-cap White-Skipper (6)
East-Mexican White-Skipper (1)
Common Sootywing (1)
Julia's Skipper (2)
Fawn-spotted Skipper (11)
Clouded Skipper (234)
Southern Skipperling (10)
Fiery Skipper (331)
Whirlabout (15)
Southern Broken-Dash (15)
Sachem (18)
Common Mellana (15)
Celia's Roadside (7)
Eufala Skipper (69)
Violet-Clouded Skipper (3)
Brazilian Skipper (19)
Ocola Skipper (26)
Purple-washed Skipper (12)
Evan's Skipper (2)
Violet-banded Skipper (3)
Immatures:
Polydamus Swallowtail (1) (caterpillar)
Border Patch (297) (caterpillars)
Marius Hairstreak (1) (caterpillar)
Monarch (1) (caterpillar)
Guava Skipper (1) (caterpillar)
Tropical Leafwing (2) (caterpillar)
Crimson Patch (2) (caterpillars)
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NABA Butterfly Park-Bentsen RGV State Park, Mission, TX (Seasonal Count: 34 participants)
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October 25, 2008
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Gold-Spotted Aguna
Two-barred Flasher
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Bentsen World Birding Center, Mission, TX (C Traylor)
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October 25, 2008
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Least Skipper
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Siesta Key, Sarasota, Fl (T Staats)
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October 23, 2008
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Red-sided Swallowtail (Mimoides Phaon)
(1st U.S. record)
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entrance road butterfly garden, Santa Ana NWR, Alamo, Hidalgo Co., TX (M Reid)
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October 22, 2008
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Orange Sulphur (3)
Acmon Blue (2)
Mylitta Crescent (2)
Painted Lady (4)
Common Buckeye (22)
Common Ringlet (2)
Woodland Skipper (3)
Umber Skipper (3)
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Arboretum at University Of California Santa Cruz, CA (E Vollmer)
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October 21, 2008
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Polydamas Swallowtail
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Russ Pitman Park, Houston, TX (J Schneider)
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October 19, 2008
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Ruddy Daggerwing
Teleus Longtail
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Hidalgo Co., TX (G Quintanilla)
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October 19, 2008
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Pavon Emperor
Silver Emperor
Gilbert's Flasher
East-Mexican White-Skipper
Erichson's White-Skipper
Evan's Skipper
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NABA IBP, Mission, TX (C Traylor)
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October 19, 2008
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Question Mark
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my yard in Edinburg, TX (C Traylor)
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October 19, 2008
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Cabbage White (2)
Orange Sulphur (1)
Red-banded Hairstreak (1)
Pearl Crescent (2)
Red-spotted Admiral (1) (attracted to a pile of rotting fruit)
Sachem (1)
Fiery Skipper (1)
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inside the Beltway, Silver Spring, MD (E Raun)
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October 18, 2008
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Pipevine Swallowtail
Chiricahua White
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface
Cloudless Sulphur
Mexican Yellow
Tailed Orange
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Spring Azure
Ceraunus Blue
Reakirt's Blue
Acmon Blue (Lupine)
American Snout
Monarch
Queen
Gulf Fritillary
Variegated Fritillary
Black Checkerspot
Common Buckeye
California Tortoiseshell
Red Admiral
Painted Lady
American Lady
Red-spotted Admiral
Arizona Sister
Tropical Leafwing
Nabakov's Satyr
Red-bordered Satyr)
Dorantes Longtail
Funereal Duskywing
White/Common Checkered-Skipper
Desert Checkered-Skipper
Arizona Giant-Skipper
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Garden Canyon on Ft. Huachuca, AZ (H Brodkin and others, 14 participants)
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October 18, 2008
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Gilbert's Flasher
East-Mexican White-Skipper
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NABA IBP, Mission, TX (G Quintanilla)
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October 18, 2008
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Zebra Swallowtail (5)
Black Swallowtail (4)
Spicebush Swallowtail (8)
Palamedes Swallowtail (48)
Great Southern White (2)
Cloudless Sulphur (84)
Barred Yellow (6)
Little Yellow (3)
Sleepy Orange (17)
Gray Hairstreak (9)
Red-banded Hairstreak (4)
Little Metalmark (2)
Gulf Fritillary (279)
Zebra Heliconian (44)
Pearl Crescent (5)
Common Buckeye (8)
White Peacock (25)
Viceroy (11)
Hackberry Emperor (1)
Tawny Emperor (2)
Carolina Satyr (251)
Georgia Satyr (3)
Monarch (1)
Queen (140)
Long-tailed Skipper (126)
Dorantes Longtail (3)
Horace's Duskywing (8)
Zarucco Duskywing (2)
Tropical Checkered-Skipper (3)
Three-spotted Skipper (1)
Clouded Skipper (39)
Fiery Skipper (5)
Whirlabout (16)
Southern Broken-Dash (7)
Delaware Skipper (4)
Palmetto Skipper (2)
Monk Skipper (1)
Twin-spot Skipper (9)
Brazilian Skipper (1) (several caterpillars on Thalia geniculata)
Ocola Skipper (44)
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Lake Kissimmee State Park, FL (L Cooper, D Cutler, M Cutler, B Cooper, B Bindschadler, J DuBois, S Farnsworth)
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October 17, 2008
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Clouded Sulphur
Orange Sulphur
Bronze Copper
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Boland Pond, Binghamton, NY (B Grosek)
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October 17, 2008
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Black Swallowtail (1)
Checkered White (1)
Cabbage White (10)
Clouded Sulphur (1)
Orange Sulphur (15)
Cloudless Sulphur (1)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Question Mark (2)
American Lady (1)
Common Buckeye (5)
Monarch (35)
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Ft. Tilden, Queens Co., NY (R Kelly, P Tates)
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October 16, 2008
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Cabbage White (7)
Clouded Sulphur (5)
Orange Sulphur (18)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Eastern Tailed-Blue (2)
Pearl Crescent (2) (1 very fresh)
Common Buckeye (1)
Monarch (3)
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Mountainside Park, Pequannock, NJ (V Corsello)
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October 16, 2008
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (2)
Palamedes Swallowtail (1)
Cloudless Sulphur (12)
Little Yellow (8)
Sleepy Orange (12)
Red-banded Hairstreak (2)
Gulf Fritillary (22)
Zebra Heliconian (12)
Phaon Crescent (5)
Pearl Crescent (2)
Common Buckeye (3)
Carolina Satyr (11)
Monarch (2)
Southern Skipperling (7)
Fiery Skipper (3)
Whirlabout (6)
Ocola Skipper (4)
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Osceola Wildlife Management Area, FL (J Monroe)
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October 15, 2008
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Gilbert's Flasher
Brown-banded Skipper
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NABA IBP, Mission, TX (H Hoople)
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October 15, 2008
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Cabbage White
Clouded Sulphur
Bronze Copper
Monarch
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Boland Pond, Binghamton, NY (B Grosek)
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October 15, 2008
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Cabbage White (3)
Clouded Sulphur (2)
Orange Sulphur (5)
Cloudless Sulphur (1)
Red Admiral (1)
Common Buckeye (2)
Monarch (14)
Sachem (1)
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Parking Area "C",Sandy Hook Unit,Gateway National Recreation, Monmouth Co., NJ (V Corsello)
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October 14, 2008
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Cabbage White (13)
Clouded Sulphur (16)
Orange Sulphur (21)
Pearl Crescent (2)
Question Mark (1)
Eastern Comma (4)
Red Admiral (1)
Viceroy (1)
Monarch (4)
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Appalachian Trail Lands From State Route 94 To County Route 517, Vernon, NJ (V Corsello)
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October 14, 2008
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Cabbage White (4)
Orange Sulphur (3)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Pearl Crescent (1)
Monarch (1)
Sachem (3)
Peck's Skipper (1)
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inside the Beltway, Silver Spring, Maryland (E Raun)
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October 14, 2008
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Gulf Fritillary
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Richmond, VA (L Verner)
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October 14, 2008
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Black Swallowtail
Cabbage White (7)
Orange Sulphur (3)
Cloudless Sulphur (12)
Gray Hairstreak (2)
Red-Banded Hairstreak
Gulf Fritillary (2)
Variegated Fritillary
American Lady
Painted Lady (8)
Common Buckeye (2)
Monarch (3)
Long Tailed Skipper (2)
Clouded Skipper (5)
Fiery Skipper (6)
Sachem (3)
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Eastern Shore NWR, Cape Charles, VA (D Amadio)
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October 13, 2008
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Cabbage White (1)
Orange Sulphur (1)
Mylitta Crescent (5)
Painted Lady (6)
West Coast Lady (1)
Common Buckeye (15)
Common Ringlet (6)
Monarch (1)
Mournful Duskywing (1)
Common Checkered-Skipper (12)
Umber Skipper (6)
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Arboretum at University Of California Santa Cruz, CA (E Vollmer)
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October 13, 2008
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Clouded Sulphur (2)
Orange Sulphur (6)
Cabbage White (3)
Variegated Fritillary (1)
Silvery Checkerspot (1)
Pearl Crescent (2)
Mourning Cloak (1)
Common Buckeye (4)
Monarch (1)
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Meadowbrook Park in Howard Co., MD (J Wilkinson)
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October 12, 2008
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Sulphur sp. (lots)
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Eastern Comma
American Lady
Painted Lady
Red Admiral
Common Buckeye
Monarch (few)
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Rondeau Provincial Park, ON (Ontario Butterflies Google Group: B A Mann)
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October 12, 2008
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Fiery Skipper (few)
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Blenheim Sewage Lagoons, ON (Ontario Butterflies Google Group: B A Mann)
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October 12, 2008
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Cabbage White (A)
Clouded Sulphur (A)
Orange Sulphur (A)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Eastern Tailed-Blue (8)
Painted Lady (12)
Common Buckeye (14)
Monarch (15)
Silver-spotted Skipper (2)
Common Checkered-Skipper (1)(very rare)
Fiery Skipper (17)
Peck's Skipper (1)
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Leamington, ON (A Adamo)
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October 12, 2008
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Red Rim (1)
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NABA IBP, Mission, TX (C Traylor)
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October 11, 2008
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Cabbage White (1)
Clouded Sulphur (50+)
Orange Sulphur (3)
Bronze Copper (2)
Eastern Tailed-Blue (2)
Pearl Crescent (4)
Eastern Comma (1)
Common Buckeye (8)
Monarch (5)
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Avon Bottoms, Rock Co., WI (M Reese, D Reese)
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October 11, 2008
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Common Buckeye
Fiery Skipper
Common Checkered-Skipper
Ocola Skipper
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Point Pelee, ON (Ontario Butterflies Google Group: B A Mann)
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October 11, 2008
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Cabbage White (3)
Cloudless Sulphur (1)
Mourning Cloak (2)
American Lady (2)
Monarch (dozens)
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Robert Moses SP, Suffolk Co., NY (A Block)
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October 11, 2008
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Monarch (1)
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Long Island Expressway - Exit 32, Long Island, NY (M Diederich)
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October 11, 2008
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Spicebush Swallowtail (1)
Cabbage White (14)
Clouded Sulphur (2)
Orange Sulphur (34)
American Lady (2)
Common Buckeye (1)
Monarch (41)
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Jones Beach Boardwalk, Parking Lot Area 6 - (2) mile Loop to Parking Lot Area 4, Jones Beach, Long Island, NY
(M Diederich)
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October 11, 2008
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Cabbage White (1)
Checkered White (1)
Orange Sulphur (2)
Monarch (18)
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Theodore Roosevelt Nature Center, Jones Beach, Long Island, NY (M Diederich)
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October 11, 2008
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Cabbage White (7)
Orange Sulphurs (13)
Cloudless Sulphur (6)
Gray Hairstreak (2)
American Lady (1)
Painted Lady (1)
Common Buckeye (10)
Monarch (3)
Common Checkered-Skipper (1)
Sachem (19)
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Maurice River Botanical Garden, Heislerville, Cumberland, Co., NJ (J DiOrio)
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October 9, 2008
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Cabbage White
Clouded Sulphur
Orange Sulphur
Eastern Comma
Monarch
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Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, NY (B Grosek)
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October 8, 2008
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Cabbage White (1)
Acmon Blue (1)
Mylitta Crescent (5)
Painted Lady (3)
Common Buckeye (7)
Common Ringlet (3)
Monarch (1)
Common Checkered-Skipper (2)
Woodland Skipper (1)
Umber Skipper (15)
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Arboretum at University Of California Santa Cruz, CA (E Vollmer)
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October 8, 2008
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Pipevine Swallowtail (3)
Giant Swallowtail (4)
Great Southern White (1)
Cloudless Sulphur (5)
Large Orange Sulphur (20)
Lyside Sulphur (3)
Tailed Orange (1)
Little Yellow (6)
Gray Hairstreak (15)
Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak (30)
Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak (2)
Dusky-blue Groundstreak (3)
Clytie Ministreak (2)
Western Pygmy-Blue (4)
Ceraunus Blue (3)
Fatal Metalmark (5)
American Snout (100)
Gulf Fritillary (12)
Bordered Patch (30)
Crimson Patch (1)
Pale-banded Crescent (4)
Phaon Crescent (50)
Red Admiral (1)
Common Buckeye (1)
Tropical Buckeye (1)
White Peacock (40)
Mexican Bluewing (6)
Common Mestra (1)
Tropical Leafwing (2)
Tawny Emperor (5)
Queen (200)
Soldier (10)
Dorantes Longtail (1)
Brown Longtail (15)
Sickle-winged Skipper (3)
Brown-banded Skipper (1)
White-patched Skipper (2)
Funereal Duskywing (3)
White Checkered-Skipper (2)
Tropical Checkered-Skipper (6)
Laviana White-Skipper (3)
Turk's-cap White-Skipper (18)
Clouded Skipper (20)
Fiery Skipper (40)
Whirlabout (2)
Celia's Roadside-Skipper (10)
Eufala Skipper (20)
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Edinburg Scenic Wetlands - World Birding Center, TX (J de Leon)
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October 8, 2008
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Monarch (17)
Long-tailed Skipper (1)
Common Checkered-Skipper (3)
Sachem (13)
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Maurice River Botanical Garden, Heislerville, Cumberland Co., NJ (J E DiOrio,J J DiOrio)
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October 5, 2008
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Zebra Heliconian (2)
Crimson Patch (5)
Rosita Patch (1) fresh
Banded Peacock (2)
Malachite (3)
Gold-Spotted Aguna (1)
Brown-banded Skipper (2)
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NABA International Butterfly Park, Mission, TX (G Quintanilla)
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October 5, 2008
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Cabbage White (15)
Clouded Sulphur (2)
Orange Sulphur (5)
Cloudless Sulphur (20)
Gray Hairstreak (3)
American Lady (18)
Painted Lady (12)
Common Buckeye (Dozens)
Monarch (200+)
Fiery Skipper (2)
Sachem (18)
Zabulon Skipper (3)
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Cape May Point State Park, 'The Circle', Cape May Point; Highbee Beach WMA, & Cape May Bird Observatory
Garden, Goshen, Cape May Co., NJ (A Loudell)
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October 5, 2008
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Cabbage White (9)
Orange Sulphur (6)
Eastern Tailed-Blue (1)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Pearl Crescent (2)
Painted Lady (1)
Common Buckeye (2)
Monarch (1)
Sachem (7)
Fiery Skipper (2)
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Inside the Beltway, Silver Spring, MD (E Raun)
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October 5, 2008
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Black Swallowtail
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (2) (1 was dark form fem.)
Spicebush Swallowtail
Cabbage White (31)
Clouded Sulphur (4)
Orange Sulphur (27)
Clouded/Orange Sulphur (white form) (3)
Cloudless Sulphur
Sleepy Orange (2)
American Copper (3)
Gray Hairstreak
Variegated Fritillary
Great Spangled Fritillary (5)
Pearl Crescent (20)
Eastern Comma
Common Buckeye (6)
Red Spotted Admiral
Monarch (Cat.only)
Clouded Skipper
Sachem (5)
Zabulon Skipper (3)
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Shenandoah National Park Skyline Drive (Front Royal to Big Meadows, VA (D Amadio)
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October 5, 2008
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (1)
Cloudless Sulphur (350)
Little Yellow (15)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Gulf Fritillary (75)
Phaon Crescent (200)
Common Buckeye (15 )
Monarch (1)
Long-tailed Skipper (150)
Zarucco Duskywing (1)
Fiery Skipper (20)
Clouded Skipper (25 )
Whirlabout (2)
Eufala Skipper (8)
Ocola Skipper (150)
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Ft. Fisher, New Hanover Co. , NC (D Carter, R Davis, J Pippen)
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October 5, 2008
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Black Swallowtail (11)
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (1)
Spicebush Swallowtail (6)
Palamedes Swallowtail (36)
Cloudless Sulphur (14)
Little Yellow (41)
Sleepy Orange (6)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Ceraunus Blue (3)
Little Metalmark (1)
Gulf Fritillary (7)
Phaon Crescent (2)
Pearl Crescent (2)
Red Admiral (1)
Common Buckeye (3)
White Peacock (19)
Viceroy (20)
Georgia Satyr (7)
Queen (5)
Long-tailed Skipper (13)
Dorantes Longtail (1)
Horace's Duskywing (2)
Zarucco Duskywing (1)
Swarthy Skipper (2)
Clouded Skipper (3)
Least Skipper (1)
Fiery Skipper (6)
Whirlabout (28)
Southern Broken-Dash (4)
Delaware Skipper (4)
Monk Skipper (1)
Twin-spot Skipper (17)
Ocola Skipper (1)
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Tosohatchee State Reserve, FL (B & L Cooper)
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October 4, 2008
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Black Swallowtail (Cat. only)
Cabbage White (2)
Orange Sulphur
Eastern Tailed Blue
American Lady (3)
Painted Lady (5)
Common Buckeye (3)
Monarch (40)
Clouded Skipper
Fiery Skipper (17)
Sachem (30)
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Pavilion Circle Gardens Cape May Point, NJ (D Amadio)
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October 4, 2008
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Black Swallowtail (2)
Cabbage White (6)
Cloudless Sulphur (3)
Gray Hairstreak
Red Banded Hairstreak
Eastern Tailed Blue
Pearl Crescent (7)
American Lady (3)
Painted Lady
Common Buckeye (15)
Monarch (10)
Long Tailed Skipper (2)
Fiery Skipper
Sachem (18)
Ocola Skipper
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Cape May Bird Observatory CRE Gardens, Goshen, NJ (D Amadio)
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October 4, 2008
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Palamedes Skipper (1)
Cloudless Sulphur (100)
Little Yellow (8)
Sleepy Orange (6)
Red-banded Hairstreak (3)
Gray Hairstreak (2)
Gulf Fritillary (75)
Variegated Fritillary (7)
Pearl Crescent (2)
Common Buckeye (12)
Monarch (1)
Long-tailed Skipper (100)
Common Checkered-Skipper (2 )
Southern Skipperling (1)
Clouded Skipper (25 )
Fiery Skipper (25)
MESKE'S SKIPPER (2 )(both nectaring on Blazing Star, new county record )
Whirlabout (2)
Eufala Skipper (6)
Ocola Skipper (150)
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Brunswick Co., NC (R Davis, J Pippen)
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October 4, 2008
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Gulf Fritillary (laying an egg)
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Siesta Key, Sarasota, FL (T Staats)
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October 3, 2008
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Spicebush Swallowtail
Cabbage White (4)
Clouded Sulphur (4)
Orange Sulphur (100's)
Cloudless Sulphur (7)
Bronze Copper (2)
Gray Hairstreak (11)
Eastern Tailed Blue (10)
Pearl Crescent (14)
American Lady (5)
Painted Lady (12)
Common Buckeye (17)
Viceroy
Common Wood Nymph
Monarch (14)
Silver Spotted Skipper
Common Checkered-Skipper (2)
Clouded Skipper
Fiery Skipper (3)
Sachem (5)
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Blackwater NWR (and surrounding roads, Cambridge, MD (D Amadio)
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Please send sightings such as the first Monarch to cross the Rio Grande in mid February; the Painted
Ladies streaming north ward in the southern California desert; the Spring Azures emerging in February in New Jersey,
etc. to
. We welcome all sightings but very unusual sightings
will be labeled as possible unless accompanied by a recognizable photograph or convincing description of the butterfly
and the circumstances of its sighting. Using the official
order makes posting
the sightings much easier. This may also be accomplished by entering your sightings into the "Butterflies
I've Seen" database as a field trip, and then emailing the field trip to the
.
Photographs of sightings are welcome also--please send in JPEG format at 72 dpi or higher resolution. Photographs
received may be resized and posted to the Recent Sightings pages. Photographs remain the property of photographer.
The scientific names associated with the English names given above are
