Butterfly Observations

E.g., Thursday, April 18, 2024
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)sort descending Wind Speed Observed By Description/Notes
2007-06-16 12:00:00 40.41 -89.87 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 8 0 archive Observers: J. Heinrickson, P. Brainerd, G. Adams, M. Herman, R. and R. Bell More...
2017-09-16 20:10:00 45.6040568 -73.7975322 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 7 andrep Seen on Hylotelephium spectabile. Note that their are so many Painted Ladies in the Montreal area that in the daily newspaper, there was an article about their migration (http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/363bab0b-5949-4492-a055-1d540081042d%7C_0.html). More...
2001-04-13 12:00:00 42.31 -83.48 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive Royce, I saw it on Friday the 13th and it was in Canton, Michigan that I saw it. That is just a couple miles from my home in Plymouth. More...
2005-09-08 12:00:00 40.7853 -74.1043 Painted lady 15 archive Observer: V. Corsello. USGS Weehawken Quadrangle. More...
2012-08-26 15:17:00 42.619397 -71.361177 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 38 ed36 looks like mostly painted lady, a few american lady. some are smaller than others More...
2019-03-07 19:57:00 35.99110075 -115.2549856 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 4 0 mariposa Enterprise, Clark County, Nevada. Location precision: within a 16m radius. Nectaring on Cherry blossom. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21067447 More...
2005-06-26 19:00:00 51.05 -114.083 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 10 0.0 0 archive observed individuals after dinner when the sun briefly made an appearance More...
2010-04-15 12:00:00 36.17 -96.02 Red admiral 4 archive Thank you, to the 11 observers who worked to count butterflies in the 5th Annual Spring Seasonal Tulsa Count! More...
2017-01-23 16:44:00 30.1985822 -98.11393028999998 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Dripping Springs, Hays County, Texas. Location precision: within 15m radius. Coming in to feed on rotting banana. Observed by greglasley, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4995176 More...
2004-12-02 12:00:00 29.067 -97.3336 Painted lady 4 archive Observer: D. Muschalek. Coordinates are for a location on a bend of the Guadalupe River about 2.5 miles southwest of Cuero, DeWitt Co., Texas; USGS Cuero Quadrangle. More...
2017-09-21 19:00:00 43.6465479 -79.4636903 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 120 Donald Davis [Bob Yukich] This past Thursday, Sept. 21, I counted 120 Painted Ladies in High Park during a 3 hour visit in the afternoon, nearly all of them in ornamental flower beds. [Accuracy: 800 m radius] More...
2001-04-24 12:00:00 44.1 -77.56999999999994 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 0 archive Just came back in from a short field trip. Saw equal numbers of Painted Ladies and Red Admirals (approx. 20 ea). These were the first Painted Ladies I personally saw this season. However my daughter saw her first one in the school yard here on April 24th. More...
2019-09-08 05:00:00 41.95107873627999 -82.51345494428841 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 640 0 Donald Davis Point Pelee National Park, Wheatley, Ontario, Canada. Location precision: estimated within a 4.5 km radius. Observed by Steve Pike. More...
2004-06-21 12:00:00 43.78 -79.25 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 2 archive No description. More...
2012-11-13 19:02:00 36.0481502 -95.823594499998 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Cliff Ivy Cool sunny 55. Front yard flowers. Lady was nectaring Blanket flowers and sunny on nearby gravel. More...
2019-03-09 06:00:00 33.721326 -116.20691699999998 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 5000 0 mariposa Indio, California. I surveyed three wireless communications facilities in Arizona last week on 3/7 (Mesa), 3/8 (Douglas), and 3/9 (Yuma). Driving back home to LA on Saturday, I noticed that the painted ladies were everywhere. More...
2005-07-18 09:30:00 42.35 -85.74 Red admiral 1 archive Saw 1 red admiral on 7/18/05, nectaring. Sand Creek Preserve , Alamo township, Kalamazoo County, MI. More...
2010-05-06 18:40:00 40.8429 -72.5727 Red admiral 2 archive I am writing to report an individual of this species which has performing a looping circular flight at dusk in an area right outside our kitchen window for the past three days. More...
2016-12-26 20:06:00 30.19859147 -98.11391133000001 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Dripping Springs, Hays County, Texas. Location precision: within a 15m radius. These butterflies showed up today after 2 or three nights last week into the low 20s F. Observed by greglasley, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4846188 More...
2005-03-16 12:00:00 32.66 -117.03 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 800 0.0 11 archive I started seeing the butterflies on March 14 passing through our yard at a steady rate of perhaps about 10 per minute. On March 15 it was about the same rate. Today March 16 it has definitely picked up to 60-100 per minute at times. More...
2017-10-02 08:30:00 39.522382668631 -104.95402335702 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 25 90.0 Althea16 Watched for about 20 minutes. The stream of ladies seemed constant. A few stopped in my garden to feed on alyssum. Stops were usually about 30 seconds. These and almost all the others would then ascend to continue flying west over the roof of 2-story building. More...
2005-08-03 12:00:00 46.52 -92.13 American lady 1 archive Observers: Mike Reese, Karl and Dorothy Legler, Robbye Johnson. Douglas County. More...
2019-05-26 20:17:00 44.54785723 -79.05210534000003 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa McKelvey Rd, Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada. Location precision: within a 75m radius. Observed by dkaposi, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26583396 More...
2002-05-06 12:00:00 47.1219 -88.5689 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive No description. More...
2005-06-10 12:00:00 37.53 -121.82 Painted lady 100 archive Observers: J. Hall, D. Edwards More...
2010-05-07 12:00:00 38.97 -77.39 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 2 archive Red Admirals are here. I saw two at my home in Herndon and one in Vienna today. I checked the Common Milkweed, which is about 2 foot high, but no Monarch eggs. I have not seen any Monarchs either. More...
2016-05-04 05:00:00 30.218691 -98.09241099999997 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Dripping Springs Ranch Park, Hays County, Texas. Location precision: within a 28m radius. Observed by greglasley, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3097663 More...
2006-09-03 12:00:00 35.38 -78.85 American lady 1 archive Observers: J. Pippen, J. Dole. More...
2015-06-19 00:15:00 42.622949 -82.924262 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 LeAnna Sosnoski... No description. More...
2019-06-19 09:37:00 46.18315929 20.40095143 Painted lady mariposa No description. More...
2002-04-14 12:00:00 39.78 -87.22 Red admiral 2 archive Observer: G. Oskay. More...
2019-04-04 16:19:00 35.0817555 -106.62457999999998 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Location precision: within a 16m radius. Observed by mirandak, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21986902 More...
2003-02-18 12:00:00 33.29 -111.2 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive No description. More...
2010-05-11 12:00:00 45.53 -73.815 Red admiral 1 archive May 12: Stephen Normandin on Wed May 12 2010, 9:46 a.m. 2 Vanessa virginiensis + 1 Vanessa atlanta in Ste-Dorothee yesterday: 12-05-10y More...
2016-03-27 16:13:00 39.62463833 -84.09665000000001 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Sugarcreek Reserve, Bellbrook, Ohio 45305. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by smwhite, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2839302 More...
2018-04-23 19:45:00 42.10726447372698 -83.10279747244749 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 1 90.0 0 Donald Davis [Jeff Larson, Ontario Butterflies] Temperatures peaked at 23 C in Essex County today. As I was walking towards my car in the school parking lot in Amherstburg at 2:45pm, a single worn Red Admiral flew by in an easterly direction. More...
2001-07-02 12:00:00 69.26 -148.76 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 archive The Vanessa atalanta (Red Admiral) northward flight this year reached rather high latitudes: In Alaska, Jack Harry reported one specimen at mile 323 Dalton Highway, 69 degrees N, on 2 July. More...
2016-06-04 23:09:00 42.104472190394 -95.966008985576 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 1 mariposa One Red Admiral perching and basking along a wooded trail in the Loess Hills Wildlife Management Area. Coordinates: 42.1049633, -95.9663244, 9.0m precision. Weather was mostly cloudy and breezy, with patches of sunshine. More...
2019-10-24 05:00:00 41.60873369999999 -75.0588391 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Tusten Heritage Community Garden, Narrowsburg, New York. Location precision: estimated within a 40m radius. Observed by Ed Wesely. “a P.L. at THCG.” (E-mail communication). Note: The Tusten Garden — ca. More...
2002-04-19 12:00:00 43.0333 -82.25 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive No description. More...
2015-04-27 20:00:00 40.311832073943 -121.00318101769 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 5 kmbovee more this year than usually observed More...
2002-08-24 12:00:00 48.43 -123.37 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive No description. More...
2015-10-14 17:00:00 30.216578 -97.65051800000003 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Dorsal and ventral view of same individual. Hornsby Bend Environmental Center, Travis County, Texas. Location precision: within a 28m radius. Observed by greglasley, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2114048 More...
2005-03-28 12:00:00 38.1505 -120.8234 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 1000 0.0 archive Observer: Arlon Balay. More...
2009-03-29 14:23:00 37.429 -121.804 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 1 292.5 5 archive Pacific Daylight time. Open grassy slope. Breeze variable from 0 to 10 mph, out of the west to northwest. More...
2017-10-11 19:02:00 41.23380198 -96.03740958999998 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 12 0 mariposa [jodygreen, Vanessa Migration Project on iNaturalist, Omaha, Nebraska.] Even after our first frost around Omaha, the butterflies are still here. Not in great numbers but happy to still see them fluttering about. Sunny, cool, 58 F. More...
2006-01-17 12:00:00 33.665 -117.854 Painted lady 0 archive No description. More...
2003-09-13 12:00:00 43.31 -91.78 Painted lady 0 archive No description. More...
2012-04-30 05:00:00 45.5472257 -84.5636283 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 100 22.5 DenBrook Cheboygan County, Michigan. Directional activity of Red Admirals seen in both Upper and Lower Peninsula. Activity seen in Emmet and Cheboygan Counties in the lower peninsula and Chippewa and Mackinac counties in the Upper Peninsula. They appeared to be flying NNE. More...
2003-09-15 12:00:00 43.55 -96.7 Painted lady 0 archive No description. More...

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