Butterfly Observations

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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) Wind Speedsort descending Observed By Description/Notes
2002-05-26 12:00:00 49.64 -104.25 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 0 archive No description. More...
2005-03-30 12:00:00 35.37 -119.02 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 1000 337.5 archive Saw large numbers in Bakersfield on Tuesday and Wednesday [March 29 and 30]. More...
2010-05-16 11:45:00 43.04095 -76.406944 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 3 22.5 archive I saw 3 simultaneously, but overall, I saw 50-60 individuals passing through over about an hour. Since I can't guarantee these weren't the same individuals cycling back through, I only recorded 3, but there has been a slow, steady stream. More...
2008-04-26 15:00:00 38.61 -95.68 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive Yesterday [April 26] - 3 PM Lyndon, KS - red admiral - definite - dog fighting with one of the ladies - couldn't be sure which species. More...
2017-10-04 19:30:00 41.474722079721 -75.184905734927 Painted lady Presence of butterfly in your area 36 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...
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...
2016-04-14 05:00:00 43.440907097725 -91.996362430283 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 MJ Hatfield (About 2 miles east of Kendallville, Iowa) Hi Royce, I saw a painted lady, up and down in a hay field, yesterday. Google Earth: 43°26'26.97"N 91°59'47.58"W More...
2002-06-06 12:00:00 44.1039 -77.5703 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive No description. More...
2015-04-01 04:37:00 42.210687641913 -121.70628547156 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 1 RonLarson Migration has been going for about 2 weeks. Most butterflies flying west about 6 feet high and fast More...
2005-07-01 12:00:00 53.22 -116.05 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 2000 225.0 archive Observer: Terry Thormin. Well, another report of Painted Ladies, but with a BIG difference. I have now had three phone calls from people who have seen these butterflies very recently migrating in large numbers. More...
2010-05-16 12:00:00 40.34 -76.41 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...
2005-03-27 10:00:00 34.3701 -119.1224 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 100 0.0 archive Observer: Linda Derbyshire. About 10:00 AM I noticed groups of monarch butterflies coming from the south and flying north over and around our apartments. they have kept coming all afternoon. its a beautiful gift of nature. More...
2009-03-26 12:00:00 39.48463 -119.84067 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive Dear Royce: Are you continuing your painted lady butterfly work in 2009? Mass migration starting in southern Arizona at this point and I saw the first painted lady in Reno, Nevada. Just this afternoon. Is there a data entry form on your website somewhere? Thanks Monte P. More...
2006-12-06 12:00:00 33.28 -111.156 Painted lady 0 archive Boyce-Thompson Arboretum, Superior, Pinal Co., Arizona. Observer: T. Fiore. More...
2017-02-26 06:00:00 33.657248505055 -117.84020528466 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 mariposa FYI - Saw one Red Admiral Butterfly in Irvine, Orange County, California yesterday in my yard, there are lots of nettles growing in a riparian area nearby. It was nectaring on my tropical Milkweed, I do not know what direction it was traveling. More...
2002-03-23 12:00:00 33.74 -95.99 Red admiral 1 archive No description. More...
2003-02-28 12:00:00 32.68 -114.62 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 0 archive No description. More...
2010-05-17 12:00:00 45.7223 -73.63621 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 72 90.0 archive May 18: Here in the east of Montreal and I guess I like by all in the south of the province, migration has since resumed most beautiful Sunday. Without doubt, the largest of its kind vernal migration for many years. More...
2003-10-18 12:00:00 28.14 -82.66 Painted lady 14 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...
2017-04-09 19:00:00 42.308964198188 -83.754668297101 Red admiral First butterfly of the season, Migrating individual(s) 1 geestar3 flew northeast across pond More...
2006-02-18 12:00:00 27.61 -81.083 Red admiral 3 archive Observers: B. and L. Cooper, B. and L. Atherton, J. Lamey, B. Bindschadler, D. and M. Cutler, Simon, Wendy, Maria More...
2003-09-18 12:00:00 41.4425 -87.1526 Painted lady 0 archive No distinct flight direction noted. Porter County. More...
2010-05-14 12:00:00 43.646 -79.463 Red admiral 0 archive Observer: Kevin Fraser. Hi Donald, Seems there are all sorts of animals on the move today! I'm not as queued in to the butterflies as to the birds so didn't notice earlier, but in our yard (near High Park) we do indeed have many red admirals...must be a broader Toronto phenomenon. More...
2005-03-15 14:55:00 34.249 -118.478 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 49 337.5 archive Note: Counts across a 175' line except as noted. Flight direction, North - northWEST, 49 butterflies observed between 14:55 and 15:00 p.m. PST. I never see much variation in direction w/ time of day, wind speed or anything else. More...
2009-04-18 12:00:00 40.855 -95.785 Painted lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive We observed our first Painted Lady of the season in Fremont County, IA, at Forney Lake today, 4/18/09. Thanks, Loren and Babs Padelford, Bellevue, NE More...
2017-04-10 05:00:00 42.751155636146 -81.198665969342 American lady Presence of butterfly in your area 2 180.0 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...
2002-03-15 12:00:00 27.6739 -82.7365 Red admiral 0 archive In checking my Excel file for butterfly sightings (soon to be a true database!), I have records for 3/15/2002 and 3/18/2004 - a terrifically precise cluster of observations! More...
2010-05-20 12:00:00 40.74408 -73.97634 Painted lady 2 archive Observer: Jeff Glassberg. More...
2009-05-09 12:00:00 40.01 -74.32 American lady 10 archive Observers: A. Loudell, S. Johnson, J. Cromartie, & others on annual Newark Entomological Society field trip. More...
2007-05-02 12:00:00 42.37 -85.71 Red admiral 5 archive 1 red admiral at Pond View, Alamo township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. 5 red admirals on bike ride on rural roads in Alamo township. They seemed to have arrived in good numbers in southwest Michigan. More...
2017-05-21 07:00:00 33.765807 -118.041778 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 Bud Foshee Nectaring More...
2005-04-07 12:00:00 39.608 -119.25 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 0 180.0 archive Observer: Shirley Warren. I have seen the monarchs [probably Painted Ladies] 3 times, the first outside Yerington, NV, the second going south out of Fernley, NV, and the third swarming around the mock plum trees in Sparks, NV. This was between April 5 and April 10th. More...
2005-04-06 12:00:00 38.2919 -122.4569 Painted lady 100 archive First large migration observed in hills around Sonoma on 4/1/05, and was in progress from here to Sacramento (60 miles east, north east). thousands of individuals moving north over entire landscape. Stopped abruptly with hard winter rain storm on 4/3. More...
2007-03-24 12:00:00 43.39 -83.54 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive Sorry for the late post. I had a Red Admiral at Bay City State Recreation Area (43.39, -83.54) in central Michigan. It was in deep leaf mulch. More...
2005-03-31 12:00:00 36.84 -119.8 Painted lady 0 archive Observer: Cynthia James. We've never noticed such a large number of Monarchs [probably Painted Ladies] in our area before. What a beautiful thing to see. More...
2010-06-28 12:00:00 36.6148 -121.9218 Red admiral First butterfly of the season 1 archive Subject: [western_monarchs] FIRST Red Admiral in Pacific Grove. California. Grand total of butterflies sighted at Canterbury Woods: 1 PERSISTENT Cabbage Butterfly, First sighted Red Admiral. Helen Johnson More...
2005-04-01 10:00:00 32.56 -117.1 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 420 0.0 90.0 archive 10:00 a.m. PST, at rate of 7 per minute (= 420 per hour) flying north. 75 degrees F. 10:40 a.m. PST at rate of 40 per minute (= 2400 per hour) flying north, 78 degrees F. More...
2010-04-08 12:00:00 36.61652 -121.90147 Red admiral 1 archive From: Tama Olver <tamaolver@comcast.net> Subject: [western_monarchs] My first sighting of a red admiral in the Monterey area To: western_monarchs@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:57 PM I saw a red admiral sunning on the patio of the Quock Mui Tea Room on Cannery Row this morn 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...
2007-06-14 12:00:00 45.09 -93.35 Red admiral 200 archive I live in a northern suburb of Minneapolis MN and our neighborhod is covered in red Admirals. They are everywhere. this is not happened in the 6 years that we have lived here. Is this normal? there are hundreds that are lining the streets haning on everything. More...
2017-09-07 05:00:00 43.833882 -101.5098658 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 10000 180.0 mariposa [Contributed by Mike Fellows] I was traveling I90 on Thursday Sept 7th traveling East. I ran into a massive migration of Painted Lady's heading South. The migration extended about 200 miles east to west from Kadoka S.D. to Luverne Minn. More...
2001-05-25 12:00:00 43.57 -76.12 Red admiral Migrating individual(s) 0 0.0 archive On a road trip from Austin TX to Mt Tremblant Quebec, a concentration of *V. atalanta* was encountered 25 May between Syracuse NY and Watertown NY between Lake Ontario and the Adirondacks. About three were in view at all times at a road stop and on the highway, all with direct northward flight. More...
2012-08-26 18:03:00 53.5412083 -113.2957365 Red admiral Presence of butterfly in your area 2 Donald Davis (Laura Jackson) We’re on a farm just outside Sherwood Park (just east of Edmonton) and we’ve got Red Admirals in the garden right now. Also saw a monarch last week – it looked like a second generation. Sherwood Park: ca. 53.54 N, 113.30 W. More...
2005-11-22 12:00:00 29.07 -97.33 Red admiral 3 archive Observer: D. Muschalek More...
2005-06-10 12:00:00 50.87 -110.27 Painted lady 2 archive Observer: Randy Dzenkiw. An update on painted ladies sightings -- we've started to see them in the Bindloss area over the last few days. Two butterflies June 10 at Princess Springs in the Remount community pasture, and three more June 11 at the kangaroo rat house by the old ferry road! More...
2010-01-19 12:00:00 32.664 -79.9176 Red admiral 1 archive 1/19/10, 17 Monarchs, also 1 Red Admiral and 1 Question Mark, both at Elaeagnus pungens, Folly Beach, Charleston Co., SC (Billy McCord) More...
2005-06-20 12:30:00 53.02 -112.83 Painted lady Migrating individual(s) 20 0.0 archive Type of sighting: migration .... feeding on a lilac bush about 3 to 7 feet off the ground. Flight: assumed northerly. More...
2010-04-12 12:00:00 40.2251 -90.0112 American lady 1 archive Observer: R. Bell. 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...
2001-03-17 12:00:00 34.0044 -84.3827 American lady 1 archive Observer: H. von Schmeling. More...

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