Butterfly Observations

E.g., Friday, April 19, 2024
E.g., Friday, April 19, 2024
E.g., Friday, April 19, 2024
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Date and Time Latitude Longitude Speciessort ascending Type Number Observed Flight Direction (Degrees) Wind Direction (Degrees) Wind Speed Observed By Description/Notes
2003-08-30 17:30:00 33.741 -118.41 West coast lady 0 archive This is just a casual observation that I pulled out of my birding journal upon seeing the Science News article this week. Butterflies were definitely alighting for long enough for me to get a good look at them (not terribly consistent with migratory behav), but that's all I can tell you. More...
2008-05-03 12:00:00 37.30299 -121.95635 West coast lady 1 archive This individual was hanging about our garden.... The specimen was kind of beat up looking, with the tip of its right wing completely missing (http://flickr.com/photos/73344655@N00/2462370963/). More...
2005-11-04 12:00:00 33.8881 -117.8851 West coast lady 0 archive No description. More...
2006-03-19 12:00:00 33.67 -117.85 West coast lady 0 archive No description. More...
2007-03-03 12:00:00 37.697 -122.445 West coast lady 2 archive San Mateo County. Observers: J. Hall and D. Edwards. More...
2015-01-08 20:45:00 36.438985 -115.358676 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Beautiful butterfly flirting around low shrubs. No currently blooming flowers. Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Nevada. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1167890 More...
2017-04-18 23:28:00 37.67832167 -122.42261329999997 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa San Bruno Mountain State & County Park, Brisbane, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observation by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5843462 More...
2017-05-02 17:30:00 33.765794 -118.037436 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Bud Foshee No description. More...
2016-04-16 17:27:00 37.72002833 -122.42528670000002 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Luther Burbank Junior High School, San Francisco, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2953997 More...
2016-04-24 19:57:00 37.80605 -122.42858000000001 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Fort Mason, San Francisco, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3035361 More...
2014-11-08 19:37:00 37.73734444 -122.37493890000002 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa San Francisco, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by kestrel, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1062823 More...
2015-11-01 20:02:00 37.80465333 -122.43177830000002 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa San Francisco County, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2339667 More...
2017-08-01 21:00:00 35.515955476889 -105.92301908466 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 500 225.0 6 aaronsf Hundreds of West Coast Ladies on our Russian sage, which is blooming now. They were here for 3 days, now gone. We are in our annual summer monsoon season, so hot during the day, then thunderstorms in the late afternoon-evening bringing temperatures down 25 degrees. More...
2015-06-03 00:58:00 37.79239167 -122.42706329999999 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa A little ragged. Lafayette Park, San Francisco, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1581487 More...
2016-05-14 17:54:00 37.80585 -122.42874999999998 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Fort Mason, San Francisco, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3280373 More...
2017-06-23 19:04:00 37.50461446 -122.50065919999997 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa El Granada, California, USA. Location precision: 31m radius. Observation by kestrel, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6771523 More...
2019-03-13 22:00:00 39.25615553080485 -121.21631613607497 West coast lady First butterfly of the season 2 0 David Adams I saw two Painted Ladies (probably West Coast Ladies) doing their "mating flight dance" this last Wednesday in my back yard here on 5 acres in Penn Valley, California (foothills in western Nevada County northeast of Sacramento). More...
2005-11-07 12:00:00 31.9471 -111.6159 West coast lady 2 archive Observer: E. Halbedel. Elevation 3000-6000 ft along SR 386, Kitt Peak, AZ. More...
2003-11-01 12:00:00 37.45 -122.38 West coast lady 7 archive Observers: J. Hall and D. Edwards. More...
2005-03-30 09:00:00 34.7317 -120.0869 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 2000 315.0 315.0 13 archive Migrating individuals (from around 0900 until the present - 1421). Flight Direction: Roughly NW, thousands of butterflies. Midland School, Los Olivos CA USA. Zip code 93441, Santa Barbara County. Latitude: 34.43'54"N. Longitude: 120.05'13"W. More...
2005-04-01 15:00:00 37.9341 -122.0272 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 3000 0.0 archive Contra Costa County, Ygnacio Valley High School, April 1, 2005. From approximately 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Numbers: easily in the thousands of butterflies. Looking out over the parking lot at my school and later driving next to open lots, there were hundreds of individuals. More...
2005-11-20 12:00:00 42.6877 -114.8662 West coast lady 3 archive Observer: K. Fothergill More...
2005-10-25 12:00:00 33.78 -117.763 West coast lady 0 archive No description. More...
2014-03-14 17:00:00 32.866396 -116.622452 West coast lady Migrating individual(s), Presence of butterfly in your area 5 CindyB For the last few days, we have seen many Painted Ladies (or West Coast Ladies) passing through. A couple of days ago, I was seeing them once every minute or two, sometimes more. More...
2006-01-17 12:00:00 33.66 -117.85 West coast lady 0 archive No description. More...
2007-02-17 12:00:00 37.45 -122.38 West coast lady 1 archive San Mateo County. Observers: J. Hall and D. Edwards. More...
2015-03-23 19:09:00 37.76910833 -122.46566669999999 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1336555 More...
2017-08-05 22:27:00 37.73500061 -122.43888850000002 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa 31-35 Paradise Avenue San Francisco, CA 94131 USA. Observation by kestrel, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. Location precision: not recorded. Photo: https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/9553174/medium.jpeg?1501972549 More...
2017-04-27 22:00:00 33.696117229632 -118.0097571245 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Bud Foshee No description. More...
2016-10-12 15:25:00 36.41918858 -115.7643668 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Willow Creek, Clark County, Nevada. Location precision: within a 10m radius. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4642304 More...
2017-05-14 16:55:00 33.918520987006 -117.81609081223 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Bud Foshee On the Redwood Grove Trail in Carbon Canyon Regional Park More...
2017-04-15 19:04:00 33.765807 -118.041778 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Bud Foshee No description. More...
2016-04-16 17:59:00 37.716075 -122.42542900000001 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa McLaren Park, San Francisco County, California. Location precision: within a 107m radius. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2953463 More...
2016-05-18 18:16:00 42.204107492342 -122.70767211426 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 AdmiralsandLadies This Vanessa annabella was resting in a garden path. This was my second sighting of season here, and I am frequently at the same site. More...
2015-05-01 22:09:00 33.765807 -118.041778 West coast lady 1 Bud Foshee No description. More...
2019-03-12 22:05:00 35.91426423 -116.55135630000001 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 4 0 mariposa Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, California. Location precision: within a 5m radius. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21191327 More...
2005-03-25 12:00:00 33.8067 -118.0987 West coast lady 1 archive I am so used to seeing Vanessa cardui, I almost missed the Vanessa annabella today at the El Dorado Nature Center where I work as a naturalist. More...
2003-10-25 12:00:00 46.24 -119.1 West coast lady 16 archive Observer: C. Rogers. More...
2005-04-30 12:00:00 44.05 -123.08 West coast lady 0 archive Observer: E. Wold. More...
2005-02-03 12:00:00 37.697 -122.445 West coast lady 8 archive Observers: J. Hall, D. Edwards. Coordinates are for a point near the center of San Bruno Mountain County and State Park, USGS San Francisco South Quadrangle. More...
2010-07-13 13:30:00 41.89 -87.62 Red admiral 198 270.0 45.0 11 archive Second day of incredible increase of butterflies here. More...
2010-05-23 10:32:00 42.11923 -94.018 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 20 0.0 180.0 20 archive 20 individuals observed migrating northward between 10:31 a.m. and 12:26 p.m. CDT. More...
2010-05-22 09:15:00 39.693 -91.038 Red admiral 1 archive Vanessa atalanta, second I saw this year. 05/22/10 9:15 a.m. Barry IL 62312, 39.693 N 91.038 W, sunning on low window facing flower bed. Michelle More...
2010-04-30 15:00:00 43.73 -80.96 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 25 0.0 archive Friday, April 30, 2010, 4:00 PM. Walking south on the bicycle path I am encountering Red Admirals flying north about 3- 5 minutes apart, which I think is an very impressive migration today. In total about 25 individuals seen today. More...
2010-04-12 17:45:00 41.68349 -93.66823 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive flushed from paved bike trail in floodplain forest More...
2008-04-18 12:00:00 43.63 -95.629 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 180.0 20 archive First two butterflies of the season I seen. south wind 20mph 70's for temp. Both were pretty beat up. More...
2007-07-01 12:00:00 41.2 -71.56 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 0 0.0 archive I was sailing the week June 30 to Block Island, RI from S. Dartmouth, MA. We sailed past probably 30 red admiral butterflies in flight heading north against a northwesterly wind of 10 knots. They were between the Sakonnet River in Rhode Island and Block Island, RI. More...
2006-08-07 16:00:00 42.945 -85.357 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 5 archive Red admiral butterfly in my garden. 1 individual that landed on my toe and stayed. This is the first red admiral that I have seen this summer. No direction available; it stayed in the porch area. Additional information; Lowell is an agricultural town. More...
2012-03-02 21:30:00 28.964449791199 -100.39058627927 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 100 mariposa Carol Cullar, Cunningham Ranch, south Quemado Valley, Texas, 18 miles north of Eagle Pass, ca. 28.96 N, 100.39 W. On March 2nd, I went out at 3:30 on a photo shoot with Kay Cunningham on the Cunningham Ranch (800 acres) at the south end of Quemado Vallley about 15 miles north of Eagle Pass, Tx. More...
2010-06-17 12:00:00 36.31 -77.8 Red admiral 1 archive My work today was in a bland NC Wildlife Resources Commission game land a few miles northeast of Medoc Mountain SP, just in the Piedmont of Halifax County. Here is what I had on a hot, sunny, and low-humidity day (June 17).... Red Admiral 1, American Lady 2.... Harry LeGrand More...

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