Butterflies
(and Moths)

2011

Silvery Checkerspot (Mont. Hall Park, Staunton, 5/21/11) *

Hackberry / Emperor (east of Staunton, 6/4/11) ( caterpillar ) *

Juvenal's Duskywing (east of Staunton, 6/4/11) *

Little Wood Satyr, side (east of Staunton, 6/4/11) *

Northern Cloudywing (Shen. Nat. Park, 6/8/11)

Red-spotted Purple, side (Shen. Nat. Park, 6/8/11)

Red-spotted Purple (Madison Run, 6/11/11)

Comma (Madison Run, 6/11/11)

Spicebush Swallowtail (Madison Run, 6/11/11)

Tiger Swallowtail (Madison Run, 6/11/11)

Spiny caterpillar (species???; Alleghany County, 6/15/11)

Cabbage White (female), 7/17/11)

Painted Lady (Vermillion, SD, 8/10/11)

Butterfly montage (Natural Bridge, 8/20/11)

Buckeye (Bell's Lane, Staunton, 10/16/11)

2012

Northern Pearly Eye (Augusta Springs, 5/27/12) *

Plain Ringlet (Highland County, VA-WV border, 6/2/12) *

Spring Azure, summer variant. (Hone Quarry, 6/9/12) *

Red-spotted Purple (Hone Quarry, 6/9/12)

Zebulon Skipper (Mont. Hall Park, 6/16/12) *

Hackberry / Emperor, side (MHP, 6/16/12; photo by Mark Gretch)

Silver-spotted Skipper (Shenandoah Mountain, 6/17/12)

Question Mark, side (Elizabeth Furnace, 6/21/12)

Wild Indigo (prob.) Duskywing (Elizabeth Furnace, 6/21/12) *

Eastern Tailed Blue (MHP, 6/23/12) *

Wild Indigo Duskywing (MHP, 6/23/12) *

Harvester (MHP, 6/23/12) *

American Snout (Bell's Lane, 6/23/12) *

Silver-spotted Skipper, side (Trimble Mountain, 6/27/12)

Variegated Fritillary (Elkhorn Lake, 6/27/12)

Buckeye (Elkhorn Lake, 6/27/12)

Meadow Fritillary (Reddish Knob, 6/30/12)

2013

Question Mark (James River near Lynchburg, 4/11/13)

Black Swallowtail (Staunton, 4/27/13)

Olive Hairstreak (Staunton, 4/27/13)

Pearl Crescent (Madison Run, 5/15/13)

Banded Hairstreak (Mont. Hall Park, Staunton, 6/22/13)

Great Spangled Fritillary (MHP, 6/22) ~ (Elliott's Knob, 6/29)

Great Spangled Fritillary, Black Swallowtail (Elliott's Knob, 6/29)

Tiger Swallowtail (Elliott's Knob, 6/29/13)

Spring Azure, summer variant ? (Elliott's Knob, 6/29/13)

Red Admiral, side (Elliott's Knob, 6/29/13)

Great Spangled Fritillary (N. of Swift Run Gap, SNP, 7/6/13)

Eastern Tailed Blue (Pocosin Cabin, SNP, 7/6/13)

Common Wood Nymph, side (S. of Confed. Breastworks, 7/18/13)

Luna Moth (S. of Confed. Breastworks, 7/18/13)

Clouded Sulfur, side (S. of Confederate Breastworks, 7/18/13)

Tiger Swallowtails (Rockytop overlook, SNP, 8/16/13)

Comma (Bear Den Mtn., SNP, 8/17/13)

Zabulon Skipper (Bear Den Mtn., SNP, 8/17/13)

Northern Pearly Eye (Braley's Pond, 8/24/13)

Hackberry / Emperor (Shen. Nat. Park, 9/6/13)

Red-banded Hairstreak (Rockfish Valley trail, 9/9/13)

Red Admiral (Shen. Nat. Park, 9/15/13)

Painted Lady (Boy Scout camp, 10/27/13)

2014

Mourning Cloak (Staunton, 3/10/14)

Comma (Sweet Briar College, 4/1/14)

Falcate Orange-tip (Madison Run, 4/19/14)

Wild Indigo Duskywing (Madison Run, 4/19/14) *

Spring Azures (Madison Run, 4/19/14) *

White-M Hairstreak (Mont. Hall Park, 4/27/14) *

Red Admiral (Spirit Mound, SD, 8/17/14)

Northern Pearly Eye (Augusta Springs, 9/25/14)

Painted Lady (Augusta Springs, 10/4/13)

Buckeye (Frontier Cult. Mus., 10/17/14)

2015

Little Wood Satyr (Bell's Lane, 5/20/15) *

Cloudless Sulfurs (N of Fremont, NE, 7/25/15)

Giant Swallowtail (SE of Burbank, SD, 7/29/15)

Monarch (Vermillion SD, 7/30/15)

Comma (Burr Oak Woods, KS, 8/11/15)

Tawny Emperor (Burr Oak Woods, KS, 8/11/15)

Hackberry Emperors (Burr Oak Woods, KS, 8/11/15)

Common Wood Nymph (Burr Oak Woods, KS, 8/11/15)

2016

Northern Pearly Eye (uncertain place & date)

Red-spotted Purple (Madison Run, 5/30/16)

Zebra Swallowtail (Dutch Gap / Henricus Park, VA, 6/8/16)

Question Mark (Mills Creek @ Rt. 648, Aug. Co., 6/27/16)

Imperial Moth (Staunton, 7/13/16)

European Skipper (Nazarene wetlands, 7/29/16)

Pearl Crescent (Ramsey's Draft, 8/6/16)

Tiger Swallowtail (Ramsey's Draft, 8/6/16)

Pipevine Swallowtail (Ramsey's Draft, 8/6/16)

Spicebush Swallowtails (Blackrock Gap, SNP, 8/14/16)

Variegated Fritillary (Swannanoah Palace, 8/14/16)

Variegated Fritillary (Leonard's Pond, 9/20/16)

Question Mark (Staunton, 9/21/16)

Monarch (Bell's Lane, 9/22/16)

Cabbage White (Bell's Lane, 9/22/16)

Pearl Crescent (Bell's Lane, 9/22/16)

Monarch, thistle flower (Bell's Lane, 11/01/16)

Buckeye (Swoope, 11/04/16)

Question Mark (Mont. Hall Park, 10/05/16)

2017

Tropical butterfly montage (Peru, Colombia, & Florida, 2017)

(Painted?) Lady (Ventanilla, Peru, 2/24/17)

Long tail (Humedales de Ventanilla, Peru, 2/25/17)

Skipper (Humedales de Ventanilla, Peru, 2/25/17)

Whitish (Humedales de Ventanilla, Peru, 2/25/17)

Unidentified (Parque Arvi, Medellin, Colombia, 3/2/17)

Unidentified (Parque Arvi, Medellin, Colombia, 3/2/17)

Unidentified (Parque Arvi, Medellin, Colombia, 3/2/17)

Red Peacock (Cerro Nutibara, Medellin, Colombia, 3/4/17)

Queen (Loxahatchee NWR, Florida, 3/7/17)

Gulf Fritillary (Loxahatchee NWR, Florida, 3/7/17)

Dreamy Duskywing (Mont. Hall Park, Staunton, 4/14/17)

Northern Golden Skipper (Mont. Hall Park, Staunton, 4/29/17)

Black Swallowtail (Bell's Lane, 5/11/17)

Variegated Fritillary (Coles Run Reservoir, 5/16/17)

Red-spotted Purple (Madison Run Trail, 5/17/17)

Question Mark (Bell's Lane, 4/15/17)

Northern Golden Skipper (Falls Hollow / Elliott's Knob, 5/14/17)

Pipevine, Spicebush Swallowtails (Dry Branch Gap, 5/18/17)

Silvery Checkerspot (Dry Branch Gap, 5/18/17)

Spring Azure (Bell's Lane, 5/26/17)

Little Wood Satyr (Shenandoah Mtn., 5/27/17)

Silver-spotted Skipper (Shenandoah Mtn., 5/27/17)

Spring Azure (Augusta Springs, 6/9/17)

Spicebush Swallowtail (Augusta Springs, 6/9/17)

Great Spangled Fritillaries (Sawmill Run / Shen. Nat. Park, 6/11/17)

Question Mark (Bell's Lane, 7/21/17)

European Skipper (Necedah NWR, WI, 8/4/17)

Variegated Fritillary (Sweetwater, TN during eclipse, 8/21/17)

Unidentified Skipper (Mont. Hall Park, Staunton, 9/10/17)

Painted Lady (Afton Mtn., 9/15/17)

Monarch (Afton Mtn., 9/15/17)

Great Spangled Fritillary (Afton Mtn., 9/15/17)

2018

Red Admiral (Chimney Hollow, 6/23/18)

Silver-spotted Skipper (Dowell's Draft, 6/30/18)

Buckeye (Staunton, 8/18/18) ~ side view (Staunton, 8/28/18)

Monarch caterpillar (Staunton, 8/20/18)

Red caterpillar (Dowell's Draft, 9/8/18)

Monarch (Bell's Lane, 10/2/18)

2019

Question Mark (Cole's Run, 4/6/19)

Falcate Orange-tip, camouflaged (Braley Pond, 4/20/19)

Zebra Swallowtail (Dutch Gap / Henricus Park, VA, 5/4/19)

Atlantis Fritillaries (Laurel Fork, Highland Co., VA, 6/15/19)

Red-banded Hairstreak (Staunton, 8/10/19)

2020

Butterflies, bee (Madison Run, 3/29/20)

Zebra Swallowtail (Hightop Mtn., SNP, 6/8/20)

Mourning Cloak (Hightop Mtn., SNP, 6/8/20)

Tiger Swallowtails (Hearthstone Lake, 6/10/20)

Pipevine Swallowtail (North Mountain, 7/19/20)

Hummingbird Moth (Rt. 610 near BRP, 7/29/19)

2021

Northern Pearly Eye (Bell's Lane, 7/27/21)

Black Swallowtail (Bell's Lane, 9/27/21)

Common Checkerspot Skipper (Cowbane Pasture, 10/2/21)