Butterfly Observations

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E.g., Saturday, April 20, 2024
E.g., Saturday, April 20, 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
2010-05-01 10:00:00 43.31 -78.826 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 0 0.0 archive We also noticed the Red Admirals. We were sitting at the south end of our driveway here in the Town of Wilson, Niagara County on Lake Ontario,watching the hawk migration. The butterflies came from the south and flew north up our driveway. This was between 10 and noon. More...
2016-12-11 18:22:00 30.19859147 -98.11391990999999 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Dripping Springs, Hays County, Texas. Location precision: within a 15m radius. After 4 or 5 days of cold drizzle and mist including one or two nights just below freezing temps, I was happy to see a couple of butterflies hitting my rotten fruit tray. More...
2005-03-14 12:00:00 32.66 -117.03 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 100 0.0 archive I started seeing the butterflies on March 14 passing through our yard at a steady rate of perhaps about 10 per minute. On the 14 and 15 none were stopping and they go so fast I wasn't sure what species they were until today. More...
2007-07-09 10:30:00 43.63 -84.26 Red admiral 4 0 archive No description. More...
2017-09-24 20:30:00 43.0295056 -76.1986518 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 11 0 efrog22 8 on mint flowers, 3 on tall boneset flowers; temp mid- to upper 80s More...
2005-08-03 12:00:00 46.52 -92.13 Painted lady 1 archive Observers: Mike Reese, Karl and Dorothy Legler, Robbye Johnson. More...
2016-03-21 20:53:00 36.05664802978 -80.283662458742 American lady First butterfly of the season 1 mariposa (Gene Schepker, Carolina Leps) I went out for a walk along Salem Creek heading east from Ebert Rd. and found an American Lady at 3:53 PM and an estimated temperature in the mid 50s. More...
2002-04-22 12:00:00 41.28 -72.68 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 2 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...
2019-04-08 05:00:00 42.1908265 -91.78517720000002 American lady First butterfly of the season, Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Center Point, Iowa. Location precision: estimated within a 3 km radius. Observed by Dennis Schlicht, e-mail reply to query on Iowa Insects Mailing List. More...
2005-07-09 12:00:00 43.2542 -81.83 Red admiral 2 archive Observer: A. Dlugan. More...
2016-07-28 14:12:00 49.6145759 6.254525652999973 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Munsbach, Schuttrange, Luxembourg. Location precision: within a 17m radius. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3875004 More...
2017-10-21 16:00:00 38.308594922612 -123.06764602163 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 3 Lisahug very little wind, butterflies moving quickly, seemed like they were going east to southeast, but, I am not sure. More...
2016-05-06 05:00:00 45.7184398 -123.9351354 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Robert M. Pyle (Kate Johnson) Manzanita, Oregon. More...
Painted lady 1 7 mariposa No description. More...
2002-01-27 12:00:00 31.65 -81.28 Red admiral 1 archive Observer: E. Raun. More...
2014-09-25 14:45:00 30.0096286 -99.1218524 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Ginny Saw a painted lady on our Thursday morning 'butterfly walk' at Kerrville-Schreiner Park's Butterfly Garden, Kerrville, TX. I know we saw it after 9:45 am and before 10:05 am but don't know the exact time. More...
2019-04-17 18:30:00 42.1275267 -87.82895480000002 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 270.0 0 drsally This butterfly was darting around and, in general, moving toward the west. More...
2003-04-04 12:00:00 38.97 -77.39 American lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive No description. More...
2010-05-07 17:41:00 46.88 -71.28 Red admiral 1 archive May 7: superfred22 reports on Fri, May 7th, 2010 5:41 pm A Vulcan yesterday, Charlesbourg More...
2016-03-19 05:00:00 30.56322349 -97.54851574999998 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa 208 Rinehardt St., Hutto, Texas. Location precision: within a 23m radius. I see these butterflies year round in my backyard. Always guarding the sunny fence. Observed by marillionjade24, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2838487 More...
2005-03-24 12:00:00 32.75 -105.91 Painted lady 300 archive I was in Dog Canyon, south of Alamogordo, New Mexico, yesterday (3-24), and it was loaded with Painted Ladies, from the previous day's migration. No migratory movements observed, but many flying down the canyon from a higher altitude. More...
2018-04-19 19:00:00 35.812541 -78.71470199999999 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa [John Jarvis, carolinaleps, Prairie Ridge Ecostation, Wake County, North Carolina] "Lori and I walked with Sean Ryan this afternoon. 80 Degrees, Mostly sunny." Precision of location: 220 m radius.] More...
2001-07-03 12:00:00 32.682 -114.495 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive Yesterday evening we had a red admiral flying and alighting around our pool patio. The first I have seen in five years at our house here in the desert. The massive migration of painted ladies earlier in the year has well past and only a very occasional one seen now. Ian Watkinson, Yuma, Arizona More...
2019-10-10 05:00:00 41.60873369999999 -75.0588391 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 3 0 mariposa Tusten Heritage Community Garden, Narrowsburg, New York. Location precision: estimated within a 40m radius. Observed by Ed Wesely. “3 P.L’s on Buddleia Bush in THCG.” (E-mail communication). Note: The Tusten Garden — ca. More...
2002-04-18 12:00:00 42.3688 -83.4799 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive No description. More...
2003-05-30 12:00:00 43.26 -73.22 American lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive No description. More...
2010-05-05 12:00:00 42.37539 -77.38897 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 3 archive First sighting of the season, 3 individuals, in woods, fluttering around. More...
2015-10-06 21:04:00 36.157689 -115.42710499999998 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Red Admiral butterfly (Vanessa atalanta). Red Rock National Conservation Area, Clark County, Nevada. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2090102 More...
2009-03-27 16:30:00 37.39855 -122.14885 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 0 337.5 archive I’d like to report that I observed a large number of individuals of Painted Lady moving rapidly in a north/northwest direction today March 27, 2009 at the following location: Coyote Hill, 221750, Summit, Santa Clara County, 372355 N, 1220856 W, CA, Palo Alto map. More...
2017-10-08 16:47:00 46.03322119 -91.16525225999999 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa [happleman. Vanessa Migration Project on iNaturalist, Sawyer Co., Wisconsin] Location precision: 5m radius. More...
2005-10-15 12:00:00 33.7846 -117.7614 Painted lady 0 archive No description. More...
2017-04-08 18:05:00 42.03268744836 -91.693337556047 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 2 dohde1 Two red admirals nectaring on pachysandra and various scilla flowers in our yard. More...
2003-09-14 12:00:00 40.3777 -86.9085 Painted lady 0 archive Observer: Rex Bryant. More...
2012-04-30 05:00:00 46.298704421364 -84.600745374991 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 100 22.5 DenBrook Chippewa County, Michigan. Directional activity of Red Admirals seen in both Upper and Lower Peninsula. Activity seen in Emmet and Cheboygan Counties in the Lower Peninsula and Chippewa and Mackinac counties in the Upper Peninsula. They appeared to be flying NNE. More...
2003-09-13 12:00:00 42.89 -95.25 Painted lady 0 archive No description. More...
2010-05-19 12:00:00 41.3437 -83.1261 Red admiral 100 archive Hello; I saw a large number of Red Admirals in my backyard yesterday (Wed. 5/19/10). I have planted Common and Swamp Milkweed, along with Butterfly Bush. More...
2015-03-13 05:00:00 30.290996 -98.07405 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Hamilton Pool Rd., Travis Co., Texas. Location precision: within a 114m radius. Observed by greglasley, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1290409 More...
2005-03-30 14:00:00 33.8985 -117.8378 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 3600 337.5 archive Migrating 20-40 per minute. Observed 2 hours- 2-4 pm. Elevation 274'. More...
2009-04-22 13:30:00 38.96 -95.247 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive Sighting Painted Lady, weathered specimen, in the grass / undergrowth possibly looking for ovipositioning. My first confirmed sighting of this season in the campus of University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 Regards, Vijay Barve http://DiversityIndia.org/ More...
2005-03-30 12:00:00 34.42 -119.7 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 4000 315.0 15 archive March 29 and 30, 2005. Santa Barbara, CA. We live near the Old Mission. All day thousands - huge number never seen before - of Painted Ladies flying at the base of our foothills in a northwesterly direction. They seem to be coming up the coast from Ventura. More...
2017-04-08 14:00:00 39.1932918 -94.560763700002 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 2 EBrown Both butterflies were feeding on the white crabapple tree More...
2003-08-30 17:30:00 33.741 -118.41 Painted 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...
2015-06-26 23:15:00 38.516911081056 -75.18133163146 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 12 michael.munroe I think they have settled in for a while. They seem to like the base of a Chestnut Oak that has a scarred and damaged base.I assume the group are mostly males but I cant distinguish. But flight pattern suggests. More...
2003-09-16 12:00:00 42.72 -83.04 Painted lady 0 archive Macomb County, MI 48094. Very few seen. More...
2010-05-31 12:00:00 49.869 -97.24099999999999 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 2 0 archive Dear Dr. Bitzer. I sent in a Red Admiral observation in today, from Winnipeg, and on leaving the Zoo this afternoon, I spotted two more, and then arriving home, there were half-a-dozen in our garden, which has some butterfly-attracting plants, but not yet in bloom. More...
2014-10-28 19:34:00 35.703355 -114.83891699999998 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) on Mojave Rabbit Bush (Ericameria paniculata). Note proboscis, feeding. Nelson, Clark County, Nevada. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. More...
2009-04-24 12:00:00 40.935 -73.818 American lady 1 archive Observer: A. Block. More...
2017-09-24 17:02:00 47.38545 -91.24398332999999 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Lake County, Minnesota. Observation by jwalewski, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. Location precision: not recorded. More...
2007-03-24 12:00:00 29.19 -82.58 Red admiral 4 archive Levy County. NABA Florida Regional Conf. Fieldtrip, Leaders: D. Stillwaugh, B. and L. Cooper, 18 participants. More...

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