Butterfly Observations

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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
2010-05-20 13:35:00 43.04095 -76.406944 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 21 0.0 archive I saw the individuals at the following times: 1:35:15, 1:35:16, 1:35:30, 1:35:45, 1:37:04, 1:37:08; 1:37:22, 1:37:48; 1:38:04, 1:39:06, 1:39:58, 1:40:10, 1:40,33, 1:40:56, 1:41:11, 1:42:22, 1:42:52, 1:43:02, 1:43:59, 1:44:05, 1:44:18 - There were more individuals per minute at the middle of the day More...
2003-05-10 12:00:00 28.1128 -82.6637 Painted lady 1 archive Yes, cardui is uncommon here in FL. I usually only see a few each year. Our data for the Brooker Creek Counts (4 teams each out for 2-4 hours covering part, but not nearly all of our 8300 acres).... More...
2017-04-15 17:00:00 43.713458 -87.7225962 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 colleen827 stayed in the yard for over an hour....kept near the pachysandra More...
2006-02-18 12:00:00 27.61 -81.083 American lady 11 archive 11 very fresh individuals. Observers: B. and L. Cooper, B. and L. Atherton, J. Lamey, B. Bindschadler, D. and M. Cutler, Simon, Wendy, Maria More...
2003-09-20 12:00:00 41.66 -92.01 Painted lady 0 archive Iowa County, 52361 More...
2010-05-14 12:00:00 43.69 -79.76 Red admiral 5 archive Observer: Michael King. Hi Donald- Yes, I counted 39, but there were many more than that, I should think. I left East Point Park at 12:30 PM, just when the mist was lifting. I only saw one Am. Lady and 5 Common Sulphur. At home, in Brampton, I have 5 Red Ad. scooting around the backyard.... Mike More...
2005-03-28 12:00:00 34.44 -118.61 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 1000 archive The Next Monday, the 28th, I observed more of the butterflies but not nearly as many as I saw the previous day as I was driving to work in Valencia, California. I have continued to see them for the past 4 days. More...
2009-04-27 12:00:00 43.98 -77.14 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive A nice fresh Red Admiral south of Picton this evening.(April 27). David (David and Yvette Bree, PO Box 123, Bloomfield, ON, K0K 1G0 Canada) More...
2007-04-22 12:00:00 29.077 -100.683 Red admiral 100 archive Pati Betancourt and I were hosted yesterday on the Barrera Ranch in Jimenez, Coahuila, Mexico. They attached a little trailer to one of their big 4-wheelers and took us all over their pastures and at least 4 miles of riverbottoms just up from where the Rio San Diego joins the Rio Grande. More...
2017-04-10 05:00:00 42.750966557162 -81.198365561922 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 55 180.0 mariposa [Posted by James Holdsworth on the Ontario Butterflies group; forwarded by David Kaposi] Finally had a decent day on some private property in Lyndale, just south of St. Thomas. The site had recent tree cutting and many leps were nectaring on the oozing stumps. More...
2006-03-16 12:00:00 27.6739 -82.7365 Red admiral 7 archive Hello Dr. Bitzer, Found out about the RAD/Lady project through your recent Leps-L post. I knew cardui was a yearly immigrant, but am unclear about the life history/status of atalanta & virginiensis (in Florida). More...
2003-10-06 12:00:00 40.02 -82.88 Painted lady 0 archive No description. More...
2010-05-22 12:00:00 43.996 -77.728 Red admiral 100 archive Hi Royce: I was absolutely stunned by all of the red admirals I have see over the past two days at Presqu'ile Provincial Park near Brighton, Ontario - directly across from Rochester. More...
2003-11-02 12:00:00 33.882 -78.517 Painted lady 1 archive Observer: H. LeGrand. More...
2010-05-09 12:00:00 43.34 -80.05 Red admiral 1 archive Sunday May 9th (in the midst of the cold snap, it was cold and windy but no rain) the walk behind the house in west Flamborough yielded only one Red Admiral and one American Lady (and that only because I had to detour around a huge fallen maple). Brenda Van Ryswyk More...
2009-05-10 12:00:00 39.02 -77.02 Painted lady 1 archive Observer: E. Raun. More...
2007-04-28 14:30:00 45.2795 -93.1466 Red admiral 10 archive Presence of butterflies in the area. Approximately 10 were on a small cherry tree. They weren't bothered at all by me getting up close to photograph them for about 20 minutes. More...
2017-06-07 19:00:00 53.456538324756 -113.45274986953 Painted lady Migrating individual(s), Presence of butterfly in your area 5 Donald Davis [Greg Pohl] I just saw several in 5 minutes in south Edmonton this afternoon - looks like the Edmonton area is right on the edge of the wave today. More...
2005-04-03 12:00:00 38.5831 -121.4912 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 600 270.0 archive Observer: Jane Churchon. There are hundreds of Monarchs [probably Painted Ladies] -- seven or eight fly past, seeming to head west, every three or four minutes. More...
2015-11-22 16:00:00 33.79641574254 -118.15060757368 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 6 Bud Foshee 6-8 individuals nectaring on lantana More...
2005-04-12 12:00:00 42.1517 -93.8248 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive I saw a painted lady on Tuesday April 12, and another(?) on Thursday April 14. Both were at my place in Boone County. More...
2004-05-20 16:00:00 42.0235 -93.6495 Painted lady 1 archive West end of Lake Laverne, Iowa State University; possibly migrating north More...
2007-05-11 12:00:00 45.2261 -75.6842 Red admiral 0 archive Christina Lewis wrote: Hi Don, 1st Ottawa-area report of Ruby-throated Hummingbird was on 11 May in Manotick, ON (Dave Sangster). No Monarchs here yet, but several Red Admirals were seen last week. I'll be sure to let you know when the 1st Monarch is reported! Cheers, Chris More...
2017-09-08 15:30:00 42.0279186 -93.613778999996 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 25 EGarrick The butterflies were gathered in a garden outside the church. I spotted a handful of others in the same neighborhood as I walked home, maybe about ten more. More...
2006-04-20 12:00:00 40.3267 -74.2318 American lady 1 archive One individual, very worn. Observer: V. Corsello. More...
2013-07-04 23:28:00 43.795493337976 -102.06058321287 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 2 mariposa Panorama Point, Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Red Admiral holding a territory on hilltop observation platform, 6:20-6:35 MDT. Took photos of area. Open hilltop without trees. Butterfly was partly worn with clear scratches on its left wings. More...
2001-04-23 12:00:00 33.55 -117.2 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 0 315.0 archive Observer: Chris Hyatt. More...
2010-06-29 10:15:00 42.359 -71.728 American lady 1 archive Subject: [MassLep] Tower Hill Botanic Garden- Boylston ,MA. Butterfly sightings during a Tower Hill Botanic Garden walk today between 10:15 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. are as follows: American Lady 1, Red Admiral 2, Monarch 1. Wendy Miller, Boylston,MA More...
2005-04-07 12:00:00 26.0725 -98.1423 Painted lady 5 archive I recorded 10-12 individual V. cardui on April 6 but 5-6 on April 7. More...
2010-04-17 15:00:00 Red admiral 10 archive Minnesota, zip code 56101, multiple county parks (Bright Lake County Park and Timberland County Park)in Martin County the species seems to already be well distributed, as I also saw a single individual last week in the LAc Qui Parle/Yellow Medicine County area of MN before I was aware or this reques More...
2007-06-04 12:00:00 43.177 -89.795 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive For the past two weeks [as of June 24th], we have had a major group of the Red Admiral Butterflies settling in our area. Thousands upon thousands have been flying everywhere along our highways and neighborhoods. I have never seen this before. More...
2005-04-08 12:00:00 46.24 -119.1 Painted lady 2 archive Observer: C. Rogers. More...
2012-08-15 16:00:00 45.0212762 -74.730345 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 200 225.0 Donald Davis (Ross Dobson) large numbers observed flying in Southwesterly direction through Cornwall today (during sunshine period) about 11am..100's over about 10 minutes.(August 15,2012) More...
2005-10-01 12:00:00 38.934 -74.958 American lady 5 archive Cape May State Park & 'The Circle', Cape May Point, NJ. Observer: A. Loudell. More...
2012-08-23 21:00:00 42.619397 -71.361177 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 60 ed36 large flock feeding on a row of butterfly bushes and a garden of zinnias. they stay during most of the daylight hours, and leave at dusk More...
2005-06-20 12:30:00 53.02 -112.83 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 20 0.0 archive Today my wife and I observed for sometime approximately 10 to 20 of the following butterflies feeding on a purple colored lilac bush in our back yard. Some of the butterflies looked like they had been through a war as the wings had tiny peices out of the edges, and the whole butterfly appeared to be More...
2010-04-12 12:00:00 40.2251 -90.0112 Red admiral 3 archive Observer: R. Bell. More...
2005-01-21 12:00:00 37.4521 -122.3847 Red admiral 4 archive Observers: J. Hall, D. Edwards. Coordinates are for a location 0.3 miles east-southeast of Mills Creek, shown on the USGS Half Moon Bay quadrangle. More...
2007-07-02 13:30:00 40.76013 -73.97331 Red admiral 1 archive Where observed: Small park with 20-foot high waterfall outside office building, at East 54th St. between Madison & Park Aves., New York, NY. Single butterfly landed on me for a very long time. No others observed. ZIP code [10022?], New York County (Manhattan). Flight direction: Unsure. More...
2001-03-15 12:00:00 29.0669 -97.3336 Painted lady 1 archive Observer: T. Muschalek. More...
2012-06-12 05:00:00 53.510987330595 -112.0639759021 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Donald Davis (Rob Hughes) I saw one Red Admiral today in Vegreville, in a friend's garden. This yard is at the north edge of town, not far from a creek green space and native bush. I don't see them at my place, where it's more small town urban. [ca. 53,51033 N, 112.06480 W] More...
2003-10-19 12:00:00 26.07 -98.15 Painted lady 12 archive Observer: Derek Muschalek (Texas Butterfly Festival). More...
2012-10-20 19:15:00 35.313545781701 -80.018595646232 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 15 bengray417 Many red admirals were seen in the Uwharrie National Forest. Particularly abundant at a sap flow along with question marks and a mourning cloak butterfly. More...
2010-05-01 12:00:00 35.94 -78.58 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive Observer: Matthew Daw. Hi all, I did a pretty extensive run of Falls dam and the Neuse River Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. I came up with a quite different list then I did last Friday. This morning, there were alot of Cloudywings around... More...
2005-02-26 12:35:00 33.7305 -84.367 American lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive I found your interesting website, http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mariposa/homepage.html, last night. Are you still collecting data on the migration of Vanessa spp.? 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...
2006-05-20 12:00:00 39.733 -76.041 American lady 1 archive Observer: A. Loudell. More...
2016-02-25 22:08:00 19.692406325853 -98.843513293932 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 mariposa San Juan Teotihuacán, Estado de Mexico, Mexico, 19.69227 N, 98.84360 W. Saw a dark American Lady patrolling at the top of the Pyramid of the Sun. More...
2003-03-10 12:00:00 28.5742 -81.3344 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive Zip code 32792 More...
2013-03-28 20:12:00 35.322217375563 -94.274434600171 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Cliff Ivy Warn sunny afternoon. Hard wood area. Red admiral landed on log in sun. More...

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