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 Longitudesort descending Species Type Number Observed Flight Direction (Degrees) Wind Direction (Degrees) Wind Speed Observed By Description/Notes
2017-02-21 20:00:00 38.439682253213 -123.08633029029 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 Lisahug overcast skies. day after strong storm. no sense of where butterfly came from or where it was going. Willow Creek Road More...
2009-03-27 16:30:00 38.8219 -123.0845 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 2400 0.0 315.0 10 archive Hello, Today, March 27, 2009, at 4:30 pm (California) we observed northward migration of Painted Lady Butterflies at 2400 butterflies per hour. Location is 5 miles west of Cloverdale, CA 95425, elevation 1200', wind nw @ 10mph, sunny, 70 degrees. Thanks for this service, Reny More...
2005-04-30 12:00:00 44.05 -123.08 West coast lady 0 archive Observer: E. Wold. 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...
2017-09-18 19:00:00 38.305025289225 -123.05942773334 Painted lady 1 Lisahug No description. More...
2017-08-24 14:43:00 38.309015858365 -123.05923461455 Red admiral 1 Lisahug No description. More...
2017-09-16 15:42:00 38.305294701653 -123.0580329847 Painted lady 2 Lisahug Campbell Cove More...
2017-10-22 20:00:00 38.453803 -123.0550013 Painted lady 1 Lisahug in flower garden in downtown Duncan's Mills More...
2023-12-21 19:30:00 38.33330361189611 -123.04857876206579 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 Lisahug nectaring on German Ivy. have photo, submitted to BAMONA. saw more "ladies" in flight during day but couldn't ID them to spceis. More...
2017-10-22 18:45:00 38.430533985489 -123.04058597398 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 2 Lisahug 2 flew by quickly, but they appeared to be going in 2 different directions. warm day. Douglas Fir Forest with large expanses of grassland on hilltop. More...
2017-10-22 19:09:00 38.434614764146 -123.03968667505 American lady 2 Lisahug one significantly smaller than the other. both on Coyote Brush on top of grassy hill surrounded by Douglas Fir Forest. More...
2019-05-12 05:00:00 44.9428975 -123.03509630000002 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 100 0.0 0 mariposa They are flying up in Salem, Oregon, as well (50 miles south of Portland). Around 1-3 per minute. Very faded and very skittish - I’m having a hard time finding one that’s not flying in order to get a still photo. So I may have to shoot video and extract a still from the video. More...
2009-07-03 15:00:00 44.92 -123.03 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive State: Oregon. City: Salem, 97302 County: Marion. Lat/Lon: 44.93°N 123.02°W Elevation: 161 ft. About half a mile south of Bush’s Pasture Park. Type of Sighting: First butterfly of this kind I’ve ever seen anywhere that I can remember. More...
2017-03-28 19:00:00 38.361798661769 -123.01808416327 Red admiral 1 Lisahug It was along side the road - there were Himalayan berries, and stinging nettles right along road. riparian forest further back. other butterflies present were Veined White and Satyr Anglewing. More...
2001-04-26 12:00:00 44.94 -123.01 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 200 0.0 archive I noticed last Thursday afternoon, the 26th that there were many V. cardui flying through Salem, probably 10 or more in my field of view per minute. It was sunny and warm Wed and Thurs and I hadn't seen any in Portland while I was there on Wed (actually hit 80 deg F). More...
2017-10-02 16:45:00 38.34542596875 -123.00953864542 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 4 Lisahug Bay Hill Road. nectar on Coyote Brushes and then move fast. More...
2017-08-25 15:46:00 37.996297956389 -122.97984122736 Red admiral 1 Lisahug No description. More...
2017-08-22 16:35:00 38.232938393641 -122.97106504026 Painted lady 1 Lisahug No description. More...
2019-04-17 18:28:00 42.47880486252633 -122.91496412720812 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 0 AdmiralsandLadies it wasnt really flying any particluar direction. went east then came back and settled in some grass, without even nectaring, then took off again, More...
2017-08-31 16:15:00 38.40988569527 -122.82105445403 West coast lady 1 Lisahug No description. More...
2017-10-28 16:00:00 38.413113899139 -122.81307219955 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 1 Lisahug No description. More...
2017-09-06 16:30:00 38.418426670643 -122.81247138447 Painted lady 1 Lisahug Laguna de Santa Rosa trail More...
2017-05-08 15:14:00 38.445388004907 -122.81139850167 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 2 Lisahug No description. More...
2005-04-02 11:00:00 38.4513 -122.7907 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 900 292.5 archive Observer: Peter Sieck. Near downtown (west-northwest of Maxine Smith sighting) many 100s of monarchs [probably Painted Ladies] flying west-northwest or west, about 11:00 a.m. We then drove via U.S. 101 south to Santa Clara. More...
2017-10-18 19:20:00 38.439909147343 -122.76595115146 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 2 0.0 Lisahug one perched, one flying rapidly south, going south, not coming from the south. IT says flight direction north, but it was coming from the north and going south. More...
2017-10-01 15:45:00 38.729313326842 -122.75178908899 Painted lady 1 Lisahug Pine Flat Road - Rob Roy Flat trail. More...
2016-04-27 05:00:00 47.077608303679 -122.71050758657 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Robert M. Pyle (Marian M. Bailey) The butterfly was on a boardwalk railing - between the Twin Bams and the River Overlook. More...
2016-05-18 17:15:00 42.204218756622 -122.70780086065 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 AdmiralsandLadies drinking in moist garden path ground More...
2016-04-07 15:00:00 42.204202861725 -122.70777072763 West coast lady First butterfly of the season 1 0 AdmiralsandLadies only saw this species one time in April 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...
2017-05-23 15:45:00 42.2040099 -122.707503 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 AdmiralsandLadies flying Se to NW. By the way, not sure if you are interested or not but I am here including an anecdotal report of someone who reported on 5-2-17 flight of Painted Ladies in Medford OR, 12 miles north of here. This report was on google rogue Valley Bird Group. More...
2016-08-24 17:20:00 42.203630643291 -122.70063399765 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 AdmiralsandLadies resting on verbena More...
2017-07-05 15:19:00 42.203857081992 -122.70030552148 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 AdmiralsandLadies repeatedly visiting a (sterile) Buddleia plant to nectar More...
2017-10-04 16:45:00 42.203833239518 -122.70023041957 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 AdmiralsandLadies This West Coast Lady was nectaring on a Verbena bonarensis in a maintained, (periodically cut back) butterfly garden bed. More...
2017-09-13 16:03:00 42.203801449554 -122.70021969073 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 AdmiralsandLadies This Painted Lady was nectaring on a Verbena bonarensis. there are several butterfly garden bed areas here, totaling about 600 square feet total. More...
2019-04-23 16:30:00 42.2016060675054 -122.69809627504952 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 68 0.0 180.0 3 AdmiralsandLadies I sat here for 2 hours and saw 68 painted ladies fly by, with about 6 out of 7 going north. I was in a 30 m diameter patch of flowering dandelions, and about 1 out of 8 stopped briefly at dandelions, before moving on. More...
2016-02-25 15:45:00 38.568078681481 -122.68993020687 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Lisahug one individual seen in Pepperwood Preserve, mixed evergreen/hardwood Forest More...
2005-04-02 11:30:00 38.44 -122.68 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 5000 archive Observer: Maxine Smith. Around 11:30 AM PST we noticed hundreds of butterflies crossing our property. They were coming from the east-southeast from a local area known as Bennett Valley and flying west-northwest toward downtown Santa Rosa. At the peak, there were 100s per minute. More...
2017-04-22 18:31:00 38.268628580631 -122.67034649322 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Lisahug on ground near vernal wetland in North Petaluma. More...
2012-08-25 05:00:00 58.778172460579 -122.66150962337 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 20 Donald Davis (Cris Guppy) Don is looking for Monarch sightings. I am looking for Red Admiral sightings, to supplement the sightings of migrating Red Admirals back in early July. More...
2017-10-03 16:20:00 37.897207751371 -122.6408958384 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 12 Lisahug Seadrift Gated Community, nectaring on a Butterfly Bush with migrating Monarchs. More...
2016-11-05 21:17:00 37.91058667 -122.61010829999998 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Mount Tamalpais State Park, Mill Valley, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4505830 More...
2016-11-05 18:42:00 37.9141655 -122.60388949999998 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Marin Municipal Water District Watershed, Marin County, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by kestrel, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4503721 More...
2016-06-18 22:22:00 37.96055759 -122.59880090000001 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Fairfax, California, 94930. Location precision: within a 6.394 km radius. Observed by laceypantalones, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3481498 More...
2017-04-19 15:31:00 38.138674644001 -122.59868859671 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 3 Lisahug visiting dung and Italian Thistle plants. More...
2017-09-21 15:44:00 38.223482108048 -122.58750915057 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Lisahug Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility More...
2019-04-01 02:07:00 38.43803596757765 -122.5794872803188 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 37 0.0 2 Lisahug actually saw many more painted Ladies. I sat still for exactly 5 minutes (set timer on phone). watched an area about 50 feet wide. individually counted 37 vanessa cardui zipping north during that time frame. Have been seeing these butterflies in the area since March 15. warm 70deg. calm. More...
2015-11-22 21:00:00 38.34775058 -122.52938210000002 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Sonoma Development Center, Sonoma County, California. Location precision: within a 3m radius. Observed by kestrel, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2409034 More...
2005-07-02 12:00:00 57.03 -122.52 Painted lady 0 archive Observer: Chris Schmidt. I just returned from a (wet, cold) trip to Pink Mtn in NE BC, which, (surprise, surprise) also had painted ladies hilltopping. I would expect that at least some should reach the arctic coast, as they have in the past. More...
2017-04-10 23:54:00 38.36441254 -122.51899479999997 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Sonoma Valley Regional Park, Sonoma County, California. Location precision: 15m radius. Observation by kestrel, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5646130 More...

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