Butterfly Observations

E.g., Thursday, March 28, 2024
E.g., Thursday, March 28, 2024
E.g., Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Date and Time Latitude Longitude Species Type Number Observed Flight Direction (Degrees) Wind Direction (Degrees)sort descending Wind Speed Observed By Description/Notes
2017-04-04 18:00:00 35.876432934018 -115.51232459322 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 1000 270.0 7 lorhum I drove about 7 miles of dirt roads in the area from 11:00 to 17:00. 60 to 65 degrees F. Ladies flew by all that time, about 5/minute, sometimes more, but fewer than yesterday I think. More...
2006-03-19 12:00:00 30.95 -91.46 Painted lady 1 archive Observer: C. Marks More...
2019-05-06 08:23:00 40.1160822 -105.29370189999997 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 30 0 mariposa Boulder County, Colorado. Location precision: within a 68m radius. 60 F, cloudy between thunderstorms around area. Observed by roomthily, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24703541 More...
2003-11-02 12:00:00 33.882 -78.517 Painted lady 1 archive Observer: H. LeGrand. More...
2010-05-09 12:00:00 43.34 -80.05 Red admiral 1 archive Sunday May 9th (in the midst of the cold snap, it was cold and windy but no rain) the walk behind the house in west Flamborough yielded only one Red Admiral and one American Lady (and that only because I had to detour around a huge fallen maple). Brenda Van Ryswyk More...
2012-07-12 05:00:00 30.19856458 -98.11388075000002 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui, Dripping Springs, Hays Co., Texas, 12 July 2012. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by greglasley, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197040 More...
2005-03-30 12:00:00 34.44 -118.52 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 2000 337.5 12 archive also: please note..we witnessed the same spectacle the following day, with thousands more swarming..day was similar in weather pattern, although stronger winds (10-15mph) hit by 2:00pm and butterfly numbers suddenly ceased - More...
2009-05-10 12:00:00 39.02 -77.02 Painted lady 1 archive Observer: E. Raun. More...
2017-08-03 17:38:00 36.2737231935 -115.67062829629998 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Toiyabe National Forest, Las Vegas, Nevada. Observation by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. Location precision: 5m. Photo: https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/9554755/medium.jpg?1501976014 More...
2007-04-28 14:30:00 45.2795 -93.1466 Red admiral 10 archive Presence of butterflies in the area. Approximately 10 were on a small cherry tree. They weren't bothered at all by me getting up close to photograph them for about 20 minutes. More...
2017-06-07 19:00:00 53.456538324756 -113.45274986953 Painted lady Migrating individual(s), Presence of butterfly in your area 5 Donald Davis [Greg Pohl] I just saw several in 5 minutes in south Edmonton this afternoon - looks like the Edmonton area is right on the edge of the wave today. More...
2005-04-03 12:00:00 38.5831 -121.4912 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 600 270.0 archive Observer: Jane Churchon. There are hundreds of Monarchs [probably Painted Ladies] -- seven or eight fly past, seeming to head west, every three or four minutes. More...
2015-11-22 16:00:00 33.79641574254 -118.15060757368 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 6 Bud Foshee 6-8 individuals nectaring on lantana More...
2019-05-02 16:56:00 36.1238002 -115.4764472 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 5 0 mariposa Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Clark County, Nevada. Location precision: within a 5m radius. Temperature, 68 F. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24397771 More...
2001-07-15 13:30:00 54.7 -113.3667 Painted lady 3 10 archive 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. 2 miles south of Highway 2 on Rng Rd 231. More...
2005-04-12 12:00:00 42.1517 -93.8248 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive I saw a painted lady on Tuesday April 12, and another(?) on Thursday April 14. Both were at my place in Boone County. More...
2004-05-20 16:00:00 42.0235 -93.6495 Painted lady 1 archive West end of Lake Laverne, Iowa State University; possibly migrating north More...
2007-05-11 12:00:00 45.2261 -75.6842 Red admiral 0 archive Christina Lewis wrote: Hi Don, 1st Ottawa-area report of Ruby-throated Hummingbird was on 11 May in Manotick, ON (Dave Sangster). No Monarchs here yet, but several Red Admirals were seen last week. I'll be sure to let you know when the 1st Monarch is reported! Cheers, Chris More...
2017-09-08 15:30:00 42.0279186 -93.613778999996 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 25 EGarrick The butterflies were gathered in a garden outside the church. I spotted a handful of others in the same neighborhood as I walked home, maybe about ten more. More...
2006-04-20 12:00:00 40.3267 -74.2318 American lady 1 archive One individual, very worn. Observer: V. Corsello. More...
2013-07-04 23:28:00 43.795493337976 -102.06058321287 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 2 mariposa Panorama Point, Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Red Admiral holding a territory on hilltop observation platform, 6:20-6:35 MDT. Took photos of area. Open hilltop without trees. Butterfly was partly worn with clear scratches on its left wings. More...
2019-05-23 17:00:00 48.8799647 -115.05350010000001 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 3000 0 mariposa Eureka, Montana. Started about noon today with about 200 per minute, maybe more. Hard to measure. Observed by Ken, Journey North (probable Painted Lady observation). https://journeynorth.org/sightings/query_result.html?record_id=1526404534 More...
2001-04-23 12:00:00 33.55 -117.2 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 0 315.0 archive Observer: Chris Hyatt. More...
2010-06-29 10:15:00 42.359 -71.728 American lady 1 archive Subject: [MassLep] Tower Hill Botanic Garden- Boylston ,MA. Butterfly sightings during a Tower Hill Botanic Garden walk today between 10:15 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. are as follows: American Lady 1, Red Admiral 2, Monarch 1. Wendy Miller, Boylston,MA More...
2011-04-17 18:00:00 35.739618 -82.55747100000002 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Buncombe, North Carolina. Location precision: estimated within a 5 km radius. A frosty start to the day, but it warmed into the 60's, so there were plenty of butterflies by the afternoon. There were also some Odonates flying, some of which allowed ID. More...
2005-04-07 12:00:00 26.0725 -98.1423 Painted lady 5 archive I recorded 10-12 individual V. cardui on April 6 but 5-6 on April 7. More...
2010-04-17 15:00:00 Red admiral 10 archive Minnesota, zip code 56101, multiple county parks (Bright Lake County Park and Timberland County Park)in Martin County the species seems to already be well distributed, as I also saw a single individual last week in the LAc Qui Parle/Yellow Medicine County area of MN before I was aware or this reques More...
2017-04-11 17:58:00 35.22739881 -114.68771090000001 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Near Grapevine Canyon Petroglyphs, Clark County, Nevada. Location precision: 22m radius. Observation by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5671176 More...
2007-06-04 12:00:00 43.177 -89.795 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive For the past two weeks [as of June 24th], we have had a major group of the Red Admiral Butterflies settling in our area. Thousands upon thousands have been flying everywhere along our highways and neighborhoods. I have never seen this before. More...
2017-09-16 23:30:00 39.7512607 -104.8648749 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 12 5 Katy No description. More...
2005-04-08 12:00:00 46.24 -119.1 Painted lady 2 archive Observer: C. Rogers. More...
2012-08-15 16:00:00 45.0212762 -74.730345 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 200 225.0 Donald Davis (Ross Dobson) large numbers observed flying in Southwesterly direction through Cornwall today (during sunshine period) about 11am..100's over about 10 minutes.(August 15,2012) More...
2019-09-04 19:23:00 44.8621967 -93.61627909999999 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 100 0 Livewombat Large numbers of Painted Lady butterflies at many sites in the Arboretum. We saw probably a hundred or more of them. More...
2005-10-01 12:00:00 38.934 -74.958 American lady 5 archive Cape May State Park & 'The Circle', Cape May Point, NJ. Observer: A. Loudell. More...
2012-08-23 21:00:00 42.619397 -71.361177 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 60 ed36 large flock feeding on a row of butterfly bushes and a garden of zinnias. they stay during most of the daylight hours, and leave at dusk More...
2012-05-09 05:00:00 45.4215296 -75.69719309999999 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 5 0.0 0 Donald Davis Rain in parts of Ontario today, including here (Ottawa), BUT individual red admirals still streaming north across highways. Don Davis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada More...
2005-06-20 12:30:00 53.02 -112.83 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 20 0.0 archive Today my wife and I observed for sometime approximately 10 to 20 of the following butterflies feeding on a purple colored lilac bush in our back yard. Some of the butterflies looked like they had been through a war as the wings had tiny peices out of the edges, and the whole butterfly appeared to be More...
2010-04-12 12:00:00 40.2251 -90.0112 Red admiral 3 archive Observer: R. Bell. More...
2017-02-08 18:59:00 30.541785 -98.35568667000001 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Llano, Texas. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by greglasley, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5075617 More...
2005-01-21 12:00:00 37.4521 -122.3847 Red admiral 4 archive Observers: J. Hall, D. Edwards. Coordinates are for a location 0.3 miles east-southeast of Mills Creek, shown on the USGS Half Moon Bay quadrangle. More...
2007-07-02 13:30:00 40.76013 -73.97331 Red admiral 1 archive Where observed: Small park with 20-foot high waterfall outside office building, at East 54th St. between Madison & Park Aves., New York, NY. Single butterfly landed on me for a very long time. No others observed. ZIP code [10022?], New York County (Manhattan). Flight direction: Unsure. More...
2017-09-24 16:25:00 41.027753523458 -76.402495798493 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 4 0 drmarc 4 Painted Ladies feeding on Russian Age and Butterfly Weed in our yard. More...
2001-03-15 12:00:00 29.0669 -97.3336 Painted lady 1 archive Observer: T. Muschalek. More...
2012-06-12 05:00:00 53.510987330595 -112.0639759021 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Donald Davis (Rob Hughes) I saw one Red Admiral today in Vegreville, in a friend's garden. This yard is at the north edge of town, not far from a creek green space and native bush. I don't see them at my place, where it's more small town urban. [ca. 53,51033 N, 112.06480 W] More...
2003-10-19 12:00:00 26.07 -98.15 Painted lady 12 archive Observer: Derek Muschalek (Texas Butterfly Festival). More...
2012-10-20 19:15:00 35.313545781701 -80.018595646232 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 15 bengray417 Many red admirals were seen in the Uwharrie National Forest. Particularly abundant at a sap flow along with question marks and a mourning cloak butterfly. More...
2019-03-01 06:00:00 34.758195 -117.283615 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 1000 0.0 0 mariposa I’m halfway between Barstow and Victorville on Rt. 66, and I’ve been seeing them since around March 1st. Mostly moving north, sometimes east. I love seeing them, but when they get thick, I get really sad about driving. Location precision: estimated within a radius of 6 km. More...
2005-07-10 15:00:00 51.05 -114.083 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 30 180.0 0 archive No description. More...
2010-05-01 12:00:00 35.94 -78.58 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive Observer: Matthew Daw. Hi all, I did a pretty extensive run of Falls dam and the Neuse River Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. I came up with a quite different list then I did last Friday. This morning, there were alot of Cloudywings around... More...
2016-11-05 16:37:00 36.14545822 -115.419783 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 2 0 mariposa Two nectaring on a thistle. Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Clark County, Nevada. Location precision: within an 8m radius. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4643799 More...

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