Butterfly Observations

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E.g., Wednesday, April 24, 2024
E.g., Wednesday, April 24, 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
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...
2011-10-11 21:34:00 44.072817957327 -103.23777436797 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 prb A photographic record that can be found on Bugguide More...
2017-08-03 17:49:00 36.27940288 -115.67152099999998 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Mt. Charleston, Nevada 89124, USA. Observation by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. Location precision: 11m. Photo: https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/9576090/medium.jpeg?1502048824 More...
2017-04-18 23:28:00 37.67845703 -122.4225576 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa San Mateo County, California. Location precision: 8m radius. Observation by kestrel, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5845819 More...
2016-07-23 05:00:00 37.957592 -119.11994300000003 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Lee Vining Motel, Lee Vining, California. Location precision: within a 3.78 km radius. I didn't get the motel room, but I saw an old San Francisco buddy against the wall... Amazing day.... Observed by robberfly, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. 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...
2015-03-28 22:06:00 33.764432544325 -118.03452477946 West coast lady 1 Bud Foshee No description. More...
2017-06-10 18:46:00 37.7673345 -122.48167990000002 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, USA. Location precision: 59m radius. Observation by kestrel, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6578315 More...
2016-05-15 19:23:00 33.84781157 -118.35395010000002 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa On Lantana. Los Angeles County, California. Location precision: within a 918m radius (and coordinates obscured). Observed by quantron, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3182581 More...
2015-06-21 00:46:00 37.80633833 -122.42821329999998 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Golden Gate Natl. Rec. Area - San Francisco, San Francisco County, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1651859 More...
2015-01-08 20:45:00 36.438994 -115.35865999999999 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Wings open, see other photo for underside of wings. Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Nevada. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1167892 More...
2010-10-08 05:00:00 33.0087364 -117.27275529999997 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa San Elijo Lagoon, San Diego County, California. Location precision: within a 1.24 km radius. Observed by megnd, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19662325 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...
2020-07-10 19:30:00 36.57914380937464 -118.29254150390625 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 10000 270.0 270.0 4 robtsp Thousands of west coast ladies moving from the Owens Valley across the main 14,000 foot plus Sierra Crest to the west. Were not observed at lower elevations or on lower peaks such as Mt Chamberlin or Hitchcock Peak on the same day at all. More...
2019-12-02 06:00:00 31.5395378 -110.7561963 West coast lady First butterfly of the season 1 0 mariposa Patagonia, Arizona. Location precision: estimated within a 1.5 km radius. Observed by Fred Heath, DesertLeps Newsgroup. "There are still butterflies out there. Although it is December, today Mary Klinkel and I managed to find the 27 species listed below. More...
2001-03-07 12:00:00 37.56 -122.27 West coast lady 3 archive Observer: B. Kirshner. More...
2005-03-27 12:00:00 34.148 -117.998 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 400 337.5 2 archive I would like to report a sighting of a large migrating brood of West Coast Lady butterflies, Vanessa Annabella. Given the duration of time they passed over, it is hard to give a count, but approx. More...
2005-03-15 11:30:00 32.512 -117.151 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 1000 0.0 270.0 archive Flight direction, due North, thousands of butterflies observed between 11.30 and 3:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. La Jolla (close to the shore), San Diego County. More...
2006-03-06 12:00:00 35.094 -106.681 West coast lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive Elev. approx. 4950 ft. This is the only observation of Vanessa at this location so far. A fresh male was visiting Phlox subulata during the warm morning hours, before a cold spell settled in that afternoon. Most likely (as evidenced by extremely fresh condition) this over-wintered as a pupa. More...
2005-07-16 12:00:00 44.37 -122.11 West coast lady 4 archive Browder Ridge, Central Cascades, Linn and Lane Cos., OR (NABA Eugene-Springfield) More...
2001-02-08 12:00:00 37.56 -122.27 West coast lady 1 archive Observer: B. Kirshner. More...
2005-01-21 12:00:00 37.4521 -122.3847 West coast lady 1 archive Observers: J. Hall, D. Edwards. Location of coordinates: San Mateo County, 0.4 miles east-southeast of Mills Creek, shown on USGS Half Moon Bay Quadrangle. 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...
2003-11-05 12:00:00 32.858 -108.588 West coast lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive Observers: B. Howe and C. Rustay. More...
2005-04-02 15:30:00 37.4925 -120.8481 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 9000 315.0 337.5 10 archive Type of sighting: Migrating groups. Flight direction: North, West, and Northwest. On 04/01/2005 observed approximately 40 to 60 individuals per minute from 1300 through 1700. On 04/02/2005 observed approximately 80 to 120 individuals per minute from 1530 through 1700. 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...
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...
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...
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...
2005-05-04 10:00:00 44.5955 -93.122 Red admiral 1 0 archive this was the first warm sunny day after a couple weeks of cold wet gray weather with strong NW winds. We had had several nights of temperatures in the high 20s. this butterfly was resting on a fence along a sunny alley - looking like it was on a territory - not migrating. More...
2009-04-16 14:00:00 39.7 -88.03 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 337.5 15 archive Dear Royce-- I saw the first Red Admiral of our season here today at Walnut Point State Park near Oakland, IL. It was alone sunning on a log. The wind was from the north/northwest about 15mph and partly sunny about 65 degrees. More...
2007-06-29 13:30:00 43.39 -83.54 Red admiral 6 45.0 8 archive No description. More...
2007-06-25 12:55:00 44.52 -69 Red admiral 1 112.5 10 archive Somewhat worn appearing individual, not fresh looking... More...
2007-04-23 12:00:00 41.905 -93.487 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 12 archive On April 23rd, about half a mile northeast of 60247 315th St. east of Cambridge in Story County, I saw about a dozen red admirals and three American Ladies nectaring on wild plum. They were the first red admirals and painted ladies I've seen in Story County this year. More...
2004-05-08 19:10:00 42.0267 -93.6458 Red admiral 8 135.0 archive Survey of territories, Iowa State University campus, route 2. Dark overcast after thunderstorm. Southeast breeze; leaves rustle. More...
2001-03-30 12:00:00 35.46 -76.92 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive Chose Goose Creek State Park as location. Observer: M. Johns. More...
2014-04-21 22:47:00 42.027945727165 -93.645894523882 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 3 0.0 0.0 22 mariposa First territorial butterflies of 2014 on the Iowa State University campus. Two were interacting on the west side of Catt Hall. A third butterfly was seen in a territory along the sidewalk on the west end of Ross Hall. Sunny, Temperature 70 F, dewpoint 35 F, wind from the north, 22 mph. More...
2002-04-15 12:00:00 37.69 -97.34 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive No description. More...
2010-05-31 12:00:00 49.91 -97.55 Red admiral 1 archive Hello Dr. Royce Bitzer, We live at St. Francois Xavier, Manitoba. Donald Davis said you are looking for red admiral sightings. My husband saw two of them on May 28 and I saw one last night, May 31. Tannis More...

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