In the spring/summer of 2012 I started to pay more attention to butterflies, thanks mostly to working on Louisiana Waterthrush stuff with Jody Allair who is a rather avid lepidopterist. Who knew there were so many species in Ontario? I think my butterfly list sits around 60ish now but that could be way off...haven't tallied it up and have some un-ID'd ones as well. Anyway, here are some pics from last year, with a bunch of ID requests! Help appreciated and feel free to correct me on anything!
****EDIT: some ID's have been resolved - thanks Kirk!
Northern Broken-Dash??? - near Long Point, July 7
Delaware Skipper - rare 2nd brood (October in Guelph)
Two-spotted Skipper
European Skippers
Tawny-edged Skippers
Dun Skipper
American Copper
American Snout
Appalachian Brown??
Banded Hairstreak
Black Swallowtail
Buckeye
Cabbage White
Clouded Sulphur
Common Sootywing (only pic I got of this species!)
Common Wood-Nymph
Dun Skipper
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Edward's Hairstreak
European Skipper
Eyed Brown
Giant Swallowtail
Harvester
Hobomok Skipper
Little Yellow
Long Dash
Northern Crescent (?)
Northern Pearly-Eye
Orange Sulphur
Pearl Crescent
again
Question Mark
Red Admiral
Red-spotted Purple
Silver-spotted Skipper
Summer Azure (?) - June 8, Long Point
Tawny Emperor
Variegated Fritillary
Little Wood-Satyr (Viola's?) - July 7 near Long Point
White Admiral
Wild Indigo Duskywings (new for the LP butterfly count)
2 comments:
You have some pretty great photos of butterflies in your collection! And yes flutter-bys is apt! Thanks for sharing these ... sorry I can't help with ID.
David,
Great posting. The Branded Skipper butterflies offer lots of identification challenges don't they? Some quick guesses are offered below:
unID1 -Delaware Skipper
unID2- Little Glassywing
unID4 - Tawny edged Skipper
Good birding!
Dwayne
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