Horace’s Duskywing Skipper Butterfly (Erynnis horatius)
Horace’s Duskywing skippers are dark butterflies that live in North Carolina year-round. Three broods of adults fly May through…
Horace’s Duskywing skippers are dark butterflies that live in North Carolina year-round. Three broods of adults fly May through…
A blazing orange and black butterfly, large wingspan, toxic to predators. No, it’s not the Monarch butterfly, it’s the…
The Eastern Tailed Blue butterfly (Everes comyntas) is small, gorgeous, abundant throughout North Carolina, and amazingly easy to overlook….
The Hop Merchant Comma butterfly (Polygonia comma) lives in North Carolina all year round. But that doesn’t make this…
Cloudless Sulphur butterflies are easy to overlook in favor of flashier butterflies but are quite beautiful in their own…
Accidentally introduced in 1860, the Cabbage White butterfly is now the most widely distributed butterfly species in North America….
Mother Nature really surprises me sometimes. After nearly two decades of wandering around the state of North Carolina observing,…
As you might guess from this butterfly’s common name “Common Buckeye”, Junonia coenia is an easy butterfly to find…
American Painted Lady butterflies are large, common, and skittish orange and black butterflies found throughout North Carolina. Often overlooked…
Red-spotted Purple butterflies are large butterflies with black and iridescent purple wings. Their wings look similar to those of…