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- Butterflies are the most common in Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia and the rarest in Alaska and Hawaii.
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- Red Admiral. Vanessa atalanta. Red Admirals have a wingspan of 1.75 to 2.5 inches. The coloring is dark brown with a reddish circular band and white spots.
- Painted Lady. Vanessa cardui. Painted Lady butterflies have a wingspan of 1.75 to 2.5 inches. The coloring is pinkish-orange, with dark brown to black markings near the wingtips and white spots inside the black markings.
- Monarch. Danaus plexippus. Monarch butterflies have a wingspan of 3.5 to 4 inches. Their recognizable coloring is a “stained glass” pattern of orange with black veins.
- American Lady. Vanessa virginiensis. American Lady Butterflies have a wingspan of 1.75 to 2.5 inches. The coloring of this species is a brilliant orange with dark borders and markings and white and purple spots.
Species Search. Explore more than 7,000 species profiles to discover the variety of butterflies and moths found in North America. BAMONA's extensive species profiles include species life history information, identification tips, caterpillar host plants, conservation needs, management concerns, photographs, the most recent verified species ...
Our aim is to develop a comprehensive online resource that will include information on taxonomy and identification, distribution and habitat, life history and bibliography for all butterfly taxa in America, including species, subspecies and undescribed geographic variants.
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There are more than 200 species of Skippers in the United States. Their name is derived from their erratic flight habits. A few physical characteristics separate them from all other butterflies, these including antennae that are usually hooked or recurved, and wing venation that usually is dissimilar to butterflies. The Giant Skippers of the southe...
Most butterflies of this family are relatively small and sometimes quite colorful. Elfins are brownish species that appear in the spring. Coppers are a group that are popular and found mostly in open areas of marshes and meadows. Hairstreaks often have delicate hairlike extensions on their hind wings. Blues are the smallest of the Family, and inclu...
The families Danaidae, Heliconiidae, Libytheidae and Satyridae, which are sometimes considered separate families in popular books, are included in the family Nymphalidae. One of the most prominent groups of nymphalids is the Fritillary Butterflies. Their underwings are usually marked with silvery spots. The Mourning Cloak is one of the few butterfl...
There are less than 30 species in the United States, compared with some 600 species worldwide. Most species are quite large, colorful and with tails on the hindwings. Included in this Family are the Parnassius butterflies that are typically white with colorful spots on the tailless wings.
There are some 60 species in the United States, compared to about 1,100 worldwide. General colors in these mid-sized butterflies are usually white or yellow, while some species have orange-tipped wings or greenish marbling on the wings. The Cabbage White, perhaps the most common U.S. butterfly, is in this group.
There are about a dozen species in the United States, and more than 1,000 in the world. Ninety percent of the world species occur in Latin America. They are small butterflies, often rust-colored, and only two species are found in the eastern U. S.
- The Monarch (Danaus plexippus) The magnificent monarch may be the most well-known and best-loved of all our insects. There is something truly regal about its size, bright colors, and powerful, soaring flight, but its kingly name supposedly comes from the spotted margins of its wings, which resemble the sable-edged robes worn by royalty at the time of its discovery.
- The Viceroy (Limenitis archippus) It's hard to believe that this insect is completely unrelated to the monarch. The Viceroy gets its name from its resemblance to the popular monarch butterfly (they're both royalty—get it?).
- Red-Spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) The red-spotted purple is closely related to—get this—the viceroy (the monarch-mimicking red-and-black butterfly pictured above).
- Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) This bright orange butterfly wings fast across fields and around forest edges in mid-to-late summer. Some researchers think its orange color is meant to mimic the poisonous monarch butterfly's colors; if so, that makes it yet another in the orange-butterfly mimic category that may also include over a dozen unrelated species.
Web Resources for Butterfly and Moth Identification. Butterflies of America is a comprehensive image archive, currently including all American butterfly species and subspecies from the Arctic Circle to Panama, and the Caribbean Islands (except Trinidad and Tobago).
Fewer than 800 of the known 12,000 lepidopterans found across the United States and Canada are actually Butterflies - the rest being recognized as moths. Butterflies differ from moths in several ways: their wings will typically rest horizontally (flat) and the forewings are not hooked.
