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 Longitude Species Type Number Observed Flight Direction (Degrees)sort descending Wind Direction (Degrees) Wind Speed Observed By Description/Notes
2010-05-04 12:00:00 43.06 -88.25 Red admiral 1 archive Here in Waukesha, WI, there have been a few Red Admirals flying around. They seem to be looking for nectaring sources. My daughter who works in Pewaukee, WI also saw a Red Admiral yesterday. Addie Carlsen in SE Wisconsin More...
2016-10-21 17:44:00 30.224395 -97.65672332999998 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Hornsby Bend, Austin, Travis Co., Texas. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by greglasley, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4409021 More...
2010-05-05 12:00:00 44.413 -81.439 Red admiral 1 archive Hi Don, Yes, in fact I have been seeing good numbers of red admirals. Yesterday I only recall the one along the east boundary of MacGregor PP, just south of Port Elgin, ON. However, I was up in the French River area from April 30 to May 4 and they were quite abundant along the trails and roads. More...
2016-09-19 14:07:00 42.01117222 -93.63822167000001 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Reiman Gardens, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by islandboys, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4155711 More...
2007-04-28 12:50:00 38.35935 -86.21943 American lady 2 archive Habitat: Limestone glade. Specimens were alternately nectaring on Hoary Puccoon and visiting Plantain-leaved Pussytoes so it's almost certain that they were laying eggs. More...
2017-07-13 16:59:00 42.925166733086 -95.537793237185 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 2 337.5 8 mariposa Nectaring among mowed-off weeds in a Monarch Butterfly habitat planting; sunny More...
2006-05-29 12:00:00 41.4259 -73.9679 Red admiral 15 archive Observer: T. Fiore. USGS West Point (NY) Topo Map. More...
2016-04-15 21:00:00 44.412018460015 -91.702709194164 American lady First butterfly of the season 1 marcie oconnor One American Lady resting on our gravel driveway, and then flying away over our planted prairies. More...
2019-06-08 17:02:00 32.633373 -95.460709 American lady mariposa Mineola Nature Preserve More...
2002-04-12 12:00:00 42.02 -93.65 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive No description. More...
2014-06-11 14:11:00 42.031504043526 -93.646173473163 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 315.0 3 mariposa First Painted Lady of the season, nectaring on dandelion in the Student Organic Garden north of the Insectary. This was a worn, relatively small individual. Sunny, around 70 F, dew point 57 F, starting to become warm and humid. More...
2017-09-29 15:51:00 44.930597461715934 -68.69527816772461 Painted lady Migrating individual(s), Presence of butterfly in your area, Specimen Record 3 5 Instar5 Several individuals observed feeding on zinnias. More...
2016-06-17 14:13:00 35.49398267 -82.60674059999997 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Pisgah National Forest, Asheville, North Carolina. Location precision: within a radius of 142m. Observed by fungi-lover518, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3476395 More...
2008-03-04 12:00:00 29.65 -82.32 American lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida More...
2017-10-05 19:30:00 41.474696406244 -75.184843601258 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 12 mariposa (Observed by Ed Wesely) ....In nearby Hawley PA a friend alerted me this week that she was seeing "battalions" of P. Ladies in large gardens at the Catholic Church. I spent a half hour there in bright sunlight, from 2:30 until 3 p.m. on 10/4 - T. More...
2016-05-05 05:00:00 44.781106214132 -93.130069682097 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 4 John Shier Lebanon Hills Regional Park (east, LE), Eagan, Minnesota. Survey count. More...
2019-06-25 21:58:00 42.031101 -93.647293 Red admiral 1 8 mariposa Fresh summer-generation butterfly momentarily resting on the wall of a building before flying away to the northeast More...
2002-05-28 12:00:00 35.96 -78.94 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive No description. More...
2019-04-13 15:51:00 36.40156557 -116.2754122 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Nye County, Nevada. Location precision: within a 22m radius. Larva, probably 5th instar. 70 F, light winds. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/22446815 More...
2010-05-16 12:00:00 40.272 -76.25 Red admiral 0 archive On several trips to Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Kleinfeltersville, Lebanon Cty, the most recent being May 16th, numerous Red Admirals were observed. Dallas More...
2016-04-05 17:47:00 36.20203833 -97.05168882999999 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa 7093–7299 N Perkins Rd, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by mirandak, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2885604 More...
2005-03-27 12:00:00 34.8464 -119.1486 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 500 archive Observer: Mary Griffin. Moving north west orange flying in waves whole sky was dotted with them More...
2018-04-30 17:50:00 44.766590631983256 -93.19416831138369 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 3 135.0 0 mariposa [Contributed by Erik Runquist, Iowa Insects] I saw three Red Admirals on April 30 at the Minnesota Zoo (Dakota County, east-central Minnesota). The conditions were warm with a decent SE wind. More...
2006-12-06 12:00:00 26.176 -98.376 American lady 1 archive NABA International Butterfly Park west to the World Birding Center at Bentsen S.P., TX (G. Quintanilla, D. & J. Dauphin, R. & M. Snider, J. Booker, P. Schappert, J. Rivera, J. DeLeon, D. Hanson, and others) 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...
2002-03-21 12:00:00 32.98 -96.66 Red admiral 1 archive No description. More...
2015-05-04 13:30:00 44.410240411538 -91.700735088188 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 3 marcie oconnor I don't remember the wind direction; I saw these 3 Red Admirals around 8:30am, and then numerous others - maybe 10 altogether - in the woods, later in the day. More...
2019-04-23 16:00:00 44.9162814 -93.3153838 American lady First butterfly of the season, Presence of butterfly in your area 6 0 Livewombat At least six American Painted Lady butterflies nectaring on Scilla siberica on a sunny day on April 23, all day. One did also try the pussy willows (which were full of red admirals), but they were almost exclusively on the squill. They remained in smaller numbers on April 24. More...
2003-01-01 12:00:00 26.1689 -98.05 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive Winter resident More...
2015-06-20 05:00:00 34.1656 -94.96449999999999 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Off Merry Hwy., near Wright City, Oklahoma. Location precision: within a 50m radius. Observed by greglasley, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1651780 More...
2018-09-19 16:45:00 35.77075066880256 -78.5420756485629 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 4 0 mariposa [John Connors, CarolinaLeps, Sept. 19, 2018] Hi Everyone. For those of you near Raleigh, Anderson Point Park (east Raleigh) is alive with butterflies this morning. Wingstem is in full bloom in the meadows and it may be worth your while to pay the park a visit over the next few days. 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...
2020-06-23 00:15:00 44.9162814 -93.31538379999999 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 2 337.5 9 Livewombat Red Admiral established an apparent territory along the west side of a cement block raised vegetable bed and chased at least one other red admiral. This has been a consistent preferred location for territorial behavior for at least a couple of years. 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...
2019-04-22 05:00:00 43.6757 -84.25310000000002 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 20 0 DenBrook Midland, Michigan. I had about 15 -20 red admirals in about 2 hours in central Michigan (43.6757, -84.2531). The most in a long time. Denny Brooks 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...
2015-04-24 05:00:00 30.19856 -98.113832 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 5 0 mariposa Peabody Place, Dripping Springs, Texas 78620. Location precision: within a 14m radius. Observed by greglasley, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1420560 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...
2017-09-16 05:00:00 44.757034 -73.41313400000001 Painted lady First butterfly of the season, Presence of butterfly in your area 100 0 mariposa Beekmantown, New York. There were 100s of painted ladies around my yard over the weekend! They were going after a wide variety of flowers including asters, gomphrena, cosmos, zinnias, petunias and sedum. Clear, humid, 80 F. Observation by millefiori, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. 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...
2022-10-15 05:00:00 36.125174 -80.2844 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 2 0 mariposa Observed by Maggie Martin, CarolinaLeps newsgroup. Reynolda Gardens, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, October 15, 2022. Latitude 36.125174, Longitude -80.2844, Precision: within a 100m radius. 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...
2015-06-26 05:00:00 41.724948341375 -93.094608945083 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 20 67.5 8 mariposa [E-mail from Katie Cantu, reply to posting to Iowa Insects Mailing List.] There have been a few “swarms” of Red Admirals around the Newton area. More...
2019-04-27 17:17:00 40.01397115 -105.30971779999999 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 15 0 mariposa Boulder Canyon Trail, Boulder County, Colorado. Location precision: within a 225m radius. Temperature 70 F, light winds. Observed by roomthily, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/23494946 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...

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