Recent North American Butterfly Sightings We strongly encourage you to enter your sightings first into the NABA Butterflies 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 mailed to this public Sightings page or to anyone else you choose.
Purpose Membership Butterfly Releases and Weddings Publications Art and Photo Contests NABA Butterfly Count Biennial Meeting Local Chapters Recent Sightings Help & Highlights	***Monthly archived sightings***
	January 12, 2012	Spring Azure (1st of year)	private property, Bibb Co., GA (R & J Payne)
	January 7, 2012	Red Admiral	Mannington Marsh Salem County, NJ (D Amadio)
	January 6, 2012	American Snout (1)(1st of year)	private property, Bibb Co., GA (R & J Payne)
	December 31, 2011	American Lady (2-3) West Coast Lady (2)	Donlan Point, Dublin, Alameda Co., CA (K Hinsta)
	December 28, 2011	Compton Tortoiseshell	National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX (D Hanson)
	December 22, 2011	Orange Sulphur (1) Question Mark (1)(fresh)	Carroll Park, Baltimore City, MD (J Wilkinson)
	December 4, 2011	Cloudless Sulphur (3) Barred Yellow (60) Sleepy Orange (3) Gray Hairstreak (1) Ceraunus Blue (1) Gulf Fritillary (3) Phaon Crescent (9) Pearl Crescent (3) Common Buckeye (1) Carolina Satyr (11) Long-tailed Skipper (1) Fiery Skipper (3) Sachem (2)	Ocala National Forest, FL (J Monroe)
	December 2, 2011	Orange Sulphur (2+) American Lady (1)	Little League Ballfields, Point Lookout, N (S Rosenthal)
	November 28, 2011	Orange Sulphur (6) Common Buckeye (2)	Point Lookout, Lido Preserve, and little league ballfields, NY (S Rosenthal)
	November 28, 2011	Cabbage White	Carroll Park, Baltimore City, MD (J Wilkinson)
	November 26-27, 2011	Orange Sulphur (5) American Lady (2) Common Buckeye (1-2) (tiny late season form)	Jones Beach State Park, NY (S Rosenthal)
	November 27, 2011	Cabbage White (1)	Along Route 273, Christiana, DE (A Loudell)
	November 27, 2011	Cloudless Sulphur (5) Large Orange Sulphur (4) Barred Yellow (3) Little Yellow (53) Red-banded Hairstreak (1) Ceraunus Blue (28) Gulf Fritillary (3) Zebra Heliconian (47) Phaon Crescent (2) Pearl Crescent (2) Question Mark (2) White Peacock (71) Viceroy (4) Hackberry Emperor (3) Tawny Emperor (3) Carolina Satyr (13) Dorantes Longtail (9) Tropical Checkered-Skipper (6) Fiery Skipper (4) Whirlabout (5)	Saddle Creek Park, FL (T Palmer)
	November 26, 2011	Cabbage White (several) Orange Sulphur (multiple) Red Admiral Mourning Cloak Common Buckeye Monarch (in very good condition)	Rockaway peninsula, Queens Co., NY (T Fiore)
	November 25, 2011	Eastern Comma (late date for Ingham Co.)	Fenner Nature Center, Ingham C0., MI (J Pavlik)
	November 25, 2011	Cabbage White (1) Common Buckeye (2)	Jones Beach State Park, Nassau Co., NY (R Kelly, R Kurtz)
	November 25, 2011	Orange Sulphur (7) Eastern Comma (1) Common Buckeye (1) Common Checkered-Skipper (1) (very late)	Appalachian Trail Lands From County Rt 517 To The Base Of Wawayanda Mountain, Vernon, NJ (V Corsello)
	November 21, 2011	White-spotted Satyr (1st U.S. record, 1st seen by Rick Snider)	Estero Llano Grande State Park, Weslaco TX (L & B Cooper)
	November 21, 2011	Blomfild's Beauty (2)	National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX (L & B Cooper)
	November 19, 2011	Mercurial Skipper	National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX (L & B Cooper)
	November 19, 2011	Question Mark Red Admiral	Backyard butterfly garden, West Deptford, NJ (D Amadio)
	November 16, 2011	Erato Heliconian/Crimson-patched Longwing (2nd record for NBC Gardens)	National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX (L & B Cooper)
	November 15, 2011	Orion Cecropian (1st record for NBC Gardens and 2nd record for TX)	National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX (L & B Cooper)
	November 15, 2011	Monarch (3)	Lido Beach Preserve, Point Lookout NY (S Rosenthal)
	November 14, 2011	Mercurial Skipper (2nd NBC Gardens record)	National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX (L & B Cooper)
	November 12, 2011	Blomfild's Beauty ( first record for NBC Gardens)	National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX (L & B Cooper)
	November 12, 2011	Cabbage White Question Mark Sachem	Backyard butterfly garden, West Deptford, NJ (D Amadio)
	November 9, 2011	Band-celled Sister	National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX (L & B Cooper)
	November 9, 2011	Cabbage White (1)	Backyard, Brooklyn, NY (V Corsello)
	November 8, 2011	Orange Sulphur (3) West Coast Lady (1)	Pasco, WA (C Rogers)
	November 8, 2011	Yellow-angled Sulphur	National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX (L & B Cooper)
	November 8, 2011	Cabbage White (21) Clouded Sulphur (2) Orange Sulphur (3) Monarch (1)	River Road, PA (J Monroe)
	November 8, 2011	Cabbage White (2) Sulphur sp. Question Mark (very fresh) Red Admiral (large, fresh) Monarch (3+)	Lido Preserve and vicinity, Point Lookout, NY (S Rosenthal)
	November 7, 2011	Mourning Cloak (1)	Spring Road Butterfly garden, Spring Road, Chappaqua, NY (M Diederich)
	November 6, 2011	Blomfild's Beauty	Estero Llano Grande State Park, TX (L & B Cooper)
	November 6, 2011	Sleepy Orange (1) Litttle Yellow (8) Gray Hairstreak (1) Gulf Fritillary (7) Phaon Crescent (abundant) Pearl Crescent (3) Common Buckeye (4) Viceroy (2)(one very dark) Queen (1) (my 1st LA Queen for 2011) Funereal Duskywing (1) Common Checkered-Skipper (4) Tropical Checkered-Skipper (2) Neamathla Skipper (2) Clouded Skipper (5) Least Skipper (10) Southern Skipperling (3) Fiery Skipper (4) Eufala Skipper (2) Ocola Skipper (common)	Central Cameron Parish, LA (C Marks)
	November 6, 2011	Phaon Crescent (common) Common Buckeye (1) Funereal Duskywing (1) Least Skipper (1) Ocola Skipper (common)	Eastern Cameron Parish, LA (C Marks)
	November 3, 2011	Cabbage White (2) (one landed on a pile of snow for moisture) Orange Sulphur (1)	Backyard, Hardyston, NJ (V Corsello)
	November 2, 2011	Orange Sulphur (2) Common Checkered-Skipper (1)	Elkhorn Garden Plots, Columbia, Howard Co., MD (J Wilkinson)
	November 1, 2011	Violet-banded Skipper	Estero Llano Grande State Park, TX (L & B Cooper)

   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 sightings@naba.org. 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 NABA names and putting your lists in checklist 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 sightings@naba.org. 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 listed separately.