Clouded Sulphur Butterflies (Colias philodice)
Clouded Sulphur butterflies (Colias philodice) are medium-sized butterflies found throughout North Carolina. Males are yellow; females can be either…
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Clouded Sulphur butterflies (Colias philodice) are medium-sized butterflies found throughout North Carolina. Males are yellow; females can be either…
Palamedes Swallowtail butterflies (Papilio palamedes) are large black and yellow butterflies. Each black hindwing has a thick yellow stripe,…
The Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) visits North Carolina during the summer months from its year-round habitat in northern…
Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are large, orange and black butterflies found throughout North Carolina and are especially abundant in…
Long-tailed Skipper butterflies (Urbanus proteus) have iridescent green bodies, translucent wing patches, and long hindwing tails. Adults have wingspans…
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…