Butterfly Observations

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E.g., Thursday, April 18, 2024
E.g., Thursday, April 18, 2024
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Date and Time Latitude Longitude Species Type Number Observed Flight Direction (Degrees) Wind Direction (Degrees) Wind Speedsort descending Observed By Description/Notes
2010-05-28 10:55:00 43.04095 -76.406944 Red admiral 1 archive In contrast to the butterflies I had seen in the last few weeks, this one was just fluttering around the yard with no apparent destination. More...
2005-03-29 11:00:00 34.391 -119.7 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 1000 315.0 225.0 archive Leadbetter Beach/Shoreline Park. 11:00-11:10 - 100 per min - heading N/W More...
2009-03-18 12:00:00 31.48 -110.33 Painted lady 6 archive Observers: B. Parks, P. Sullivan, H. Brodkin More...
2007-04-20 12:00:00 29.5 -98.45 Red admiral 60 archive Seeing lots (6 or more per large nectaring bush) this week in San Antonio, Texas. More...
2017-04-13 05:00:00 43.8876041 -78.8119769 American lady First butterfly of the season 1 Donald Davis From Jim Ellis of City of Oshawa, Ontario - north shore of Lake Ontario just east of Toronto: American Painted Lady - first butterfly on Downview Cres[cent] in Oshawa in 2017! Oshawa home to massive General Motors plants. More...
2003-07-10 12:00:00 55.067 -82.25 Painted lady 1 archive Collector: M. J. Oldham. Cape Henrietta Maria (just south of actual cape), NW James Bay near Hudson Bay, Polar Bear Prov. Park. Gravel beach ridge. More...
2003-09-18 12:00:00 44.78 -88.61 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 0 archive Initial arrival? More...
2010-05-30 12:00:00 45.99 -64.57 Red admiral 1 archive I am still a beginner on butterflies, but I did notice a Red Admiral stopping on my Mountain Ash flower this afternoon. Yolande, Memramcook More...
2005-04-04 09:30:00 34.9507 -120.4313 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 0 archive No more individuals noted since yesterday. More...
2009-05-03 12:00:00 43.177 -90.595 American lady 1 archive Observers: M. Reese, D. Reese. More...
2007-04-28 08:00:00 33.9137 -98.4933 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 5 0.0 archive location: Wichita Falls, TX postal zip: 76301 sighting: April 28, 2007 time: between 8 am -- 8:30 am CDT migrating individuals; 5 moving north More...
2017-04-12 05:00:00 43.027274995333 -89.343079153168 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 6 mariposa [Tod Highsmith, Wisconsin Butterflies] Capital Springs State Recreation Area - Lake Farm County Park Unit, Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin. More...
2010-06-03 12:00:00 49.70861 -97.19657 Painted lady 0 archive Howdy, Yes, Painted Ladies were in the same location at the same time. I’ve seen Painted Ladies up as far north as Arborg, MB (about 80 km north of Winnipeg) but there were no Red Admirals at that location. There was a subtle difference in location in the areas though. More...
2005-03-31 12:00:00 33.0681 -117.3034 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 1000 archive another flock,herd,cluster, what ever, on the 31st and 1st. lots fewer, but still thousands. again from the beach to about 1 mile inland. have a happy day. trish More...
2007-04-15 12:00:00 31.54 -110.375 American lady 1 archive Garden Canyon and Huachuca Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, Cochise Co., Arizona. Observer: J. Snyder More...
2017-07-20 18:36:00 39.318362808994 -120.43363093796 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 968 225.0 rmedak About 300 butterflies per hour flying from northeast to southwest direction. More...
2005-05-31 12:00:00 37.8717 -122.067 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 500 225.0 archive Anonymous. I live in Walnut Creek, California, due northeast of San Francisco. Today, we saw hundreds of monarchs flying through our backyard, 5-10 at a time all day. We have lived here for some time and have never seen this type of migration. More...
2010-06-06 12:00:00 39.193 -77.305 Red admiral 0 archive Subject: [VA-MD-DE-Bugs] Butterflies at Black Hill Reg. Park, Boyds MD. June 6: dogbane in full bloom; common milkweed lower flowers in bloom; 10 minutes at the rt. 121 Monarch Waystation: red admiral (abundant), monarch! serenaded by eastern bluebirds, tree swallows, and indigo buntings. More...
2005-04-01 10:40:00 32.56 -117.1 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 2400 0.0 90.0 archive 10:40 a.m. PST at rate of 40 per minute (= 2400 per hour) flying north. 78 degrees F. 11:05 a.m. PST at rate of 17 per minute (= 1020 per hour) flying north, 78 degrees F. More...
2010-03-10 16:13:00 28.5845 -81.3282 Red admiral 1 archive One Red Admiral flew in briefly above the carport north of Winter Park Towers and then left the area. Observer: Royce Bitzer. Henry Swanson, Thaddeus Seymour, Polly Seymour, and Sylvia Carter were also present. More...
2004-05-09 18:52:00 42.0267 -93.6458 Red admiral 56 202.5 archive Survey of territories, Iowa State University campus, route 1. Sunny, breezy, small branches move. Thin cirrus over 30% of the sky. More...
2017-09-07 05:00:00 43.899072915037 -101.09847067571 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 10000 180.0 mariposa [Contributed by Mike Fellows. This is a point about 20 miles east of Kadoka along I-90, near Stamford, SD. Between Kadoka and Stamford is where the butterfly migration was heaviest.] "I was traveling I90 on Thursday Sept 7th traveling East. More...
2001-05-08 12:00:00 46.167 -62.65 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive I am from Montague, Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada. I saw my first red admiral of the season on May 8. The female was ovipositing on some nettle sprouts that were only a few centimeters high. More...
2015-08-15 22:15:00 45.305320543382 -75.108276867333 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 100 225.0 Donald Davis (Max Rogers) I literally saw clouds of them flying over the 417 near Casselman around 5:15 pm. More...
2005-11-22 12:00:00 29.07 -97.33 Painted lady 1 archive Observer: D. Muschalek More...
2010-06-26 19:17:00 42.3836 -94.08628 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 mariposa Parking lot on the south side of the South Lodge. One territorial male perching in parking lot and r…Parking lot on the south side of the South Lodge. One territorial male perching in parking lot and repeatedly patrolling. More...
2005-06-11 12:00:00 50.87 -110.27 Painted lady 3 archive Observer: Randy Dzenkiw. An update on painted ladies sightings -- we've started to see them in the Bindloss area over the last few days. Two butterflies June 10 at Princess Springs in the Remount community pasture, and three more June 11 at the kangaroo rat house by the old ferry road! More...
2010-03-07 12:00:00 26.1716 -98.3682 Red admiral 1 archive Observers: S. and K. Heeter. More...
2004-08-17 12:00:00 48.46 -123.45 Painted lady 0 archive Hi, Sadly I have to report zero sighting for both the Red Admiral and Painted lady this year (2004). More...
2017-08-02 05:00:00 53.635030427757 -112.92987508885 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Donald Davis [Tyler Nelson, Elk Island National Park, Alberta. Accuracy: 400m radius] I saw one fresh Painted Lady just outside of Elk Island NP today. It was about 1 km northwest of Oster Lake, nectaring on some wildflowers. More...
2001-03-07 12:00:00 37.56 -122.27 West coast lady 3 archive Observer: B. Kirshner. More...
2012-05-31 05:00:00 50.0405486 -110.6764258 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 Donald Davis (Janet Scott) I think I posted early in June that they were here in Medicine Hat [Alberta]. There are plenty of them. Even more as of last weekend [June 16/17] as the Butterfly House released some as part of their official opening. More...
2003-09-15 11:00:00 44.8381 -118.1594 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 2000 225.0 315.0 archive During a late-morning break in a small meadow right on the ridge crest, I lay down on my back and in a five minute period counted the number of butterflies that passed my field of vision: there were about 300! But that was nothing. More...
2012-09-20 15:44:00 35.335084352339 -94.297530902778 Red admiral 1 Cliff Ivy Sunny warm. Back yard. Admiral was nectaring residual sugar water from humming bird feeder. Occasionally fly to white fence and sit in sun. More...
2010-04-29 12:00:00 42.02244 -93.68524 Red admiral 2 archive If you need a first observation to confirm: atalanta, 2/29/2010, 42 01’20.79”N, 93 41’ 06.85”W. It was a small individual in really good condition I would say newly emerged male. He has been hanging around my house all week fighting with what appears to be another male in the neighborhood. More...
2004-12-18 12:00:00 27.9961 -81.8646 Red admiral 1 archive Observers: B. Cooper, L. Cooper, J. DuBois. Coordinates indicate a point inside the Circle B Bar Reserve near the entrance. The reserve is on the northwest shore of Lake Hancock. Lake Hancock is about 3 miles east-southeast of Lakeland, FL. USGS Bartow Quadrangle. More...
2007-05-31 12:00:00 46.7442 -71.4564 Red admiral 0 archive Bonjour! Moi je ne l'ai pas encore vu, mais ma fille Pascale en a vu un le 31 mai sur l'asclépiade à St-Augustin-de-Desmaures. Ça va être une grosse année pour ce papillon ! [Hello. More...
2017-08-25 15:46:00 37.996297956389 -122.97984122736 Red admiral 1 Lisahug No description. More...
2005-04-14 12:00:00 36.189 -78.9785 Painted lady 1 archive Observer: R. Emmitt. Orange County near Rougemont (yard). USGS Rougemont (NC) Topo Map Quad. More...
2003-04-25 12:00:00 42.37 -85.7 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive No description. More...
2005-09-26 12:00:00 39.6753 -105.5233 Painted lady 0 archive On 9/26/05, while drivng in the mountains, we observed specimens at elevations as high as 12,000 feet (specifically at the Summit of Chief Mountain, about a 45 minute drive west of Denver). More...
2010-05-06 11:00:00 37.83178 -78.96322 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive 6 May 2010 11 AM, 1 moderately worn Admiral, first this year. Cat Rock Mtn, Blue Ridge Mountains, Nelson Co. VA. N)37 degrees, 49 minutes, 54.4 seconds; W)78 degrees, 57 minutes, 47.6 seconds, Elevation 1500 feet. Lincoln Brower. More...
2005-03-15 11:30:00 33.7549 -117.8538 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 100 archive Observer: Michelle Telson. The monarch [Painted Lady] butterflies were sighted in the Orange County area by 5 of our family members during the day in different locations. The estimated time was around 11:30am-1:30pm More...
2007-11-09 13:02:00 28.5831 -81.3282 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive The Red Admirals are Here! Henry JUST called to report that he saw the first Red Admiral yesterday, Noveember 9, at 1:02 p.m. Thad More...
2006-05-29 12:00:00 41.4259 -73.9679 Painted lady 5 archive Observer: T. Fiore. USGS West Point (NY) Topo Map. More...
2002-05-24 12:00:00 47.95 -122.26 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive Observer: REDNAX More...
2005-06-24 12:00:00 58.67 -118.6 Painted lady 1 archive Last week on the 24th when while walking near an oil compressor near Assumption AB I spotted a worn looking painted lady. The site surprised me as I didn't know they migrated quite that far north. More...
2010-05-13 12:00:00 44.3623 -79.6785 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 15 archive Hi! I saw 3 or 4 red admirals about 10days ago sitting on my large spruce trees, hanging around taking short flights and returning to the same spot or closeby. I thought they were mating. More...
2005-01-01 12:00:00 28.5128 -100.5273 Red admiral 1 archive Red Admirals over-winter here and can be seen in December, January, February, and March. Numbers in my backyard were reduced drastically from last winter when 14 individuals regularly came to eat on rotten fruit. More...
2008-04-27 12:30:00 42.35 -85.74 American lady First butterfly of the season 1 270.0 archive We had an American Painted Lady at Sand Creek Preserve today (4/27/08) (Alamo Township, Kalamazoo County, MI. It was very faded, with pieces of the wings missing. Time: 12:30 pm, some wind out of the west, about 55 degrees. More...

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