Butterflies & Skippers of Lake Elizabeth

Male Common Buckeye or Peacock Butterfly Junonia coenia (Precis coenia)

Female Common Buckeye or Peacock Butterfly

Male Common Buckeye with Torn Wing

Common Buckeye Summer 2009

Common Buckeye

Painted Lady Butterfly Vanessa cardui

Painted Lady Butterfly Vanessa cardui

Spring Painted Lady Butterfly 2009 Migration

Spring Painted Lady Butterfly 2009 Migration

Spring Painted Lady Butterfly 2009 Migration

West Coast Lady Butterfly Vanessa anabella

West Coast Lady Butterfly Vanessa anabella

West Coast Lady Butterfly Vanessa anabella

Red Admiral Butterfly Vanessa atalanta

Lorquin's Admiral Butterfly Limenitis lorquini

Lorquin's Admiral Butterfly Limenitis lorquini

Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus

Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Papilio rutulus

Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Papilio rutulus

Anise Swallowtail Butterfly Papilio zelicaon

Anise Swallowtail Butterfly Papilio zelicaon

Gray Hairstreak Butterfly Strymon melinus

Gray Hairstreak Butterfly Strymon melinus

Western Pygmy-Blue Butterfly Brephidium exile

Western Pygmy-Blue Butterfly Smallest Butterfly in U.S.

Mylitta Crescent Butterfly Phyciodes mylitta

Orange Sulpher Butterfly Colias eurytheme

Cabbage White Butterfly Pieris rapae

Skipper

Fiery Grass Skipper Hylephila phyleus

Fiery Grass Skipper

Grass Skipper

Common Checkered Skipper Pyrgus communis

Checkered Skipper

Checkered Skipper

Carpenterworm Moth

One-eyed Sphinx Moth Smerinthus cerisyi