Howard County Bird Club

A Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society (MOS)

Butterfly Report Form 2024

When you have filled in the information below and marked the species, click ; the report is sent by email.

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Use the box for the number of individuals.
Please use a number—not an x or a range.

REQUIRED. (Plus at least one butterfly sighting!)
Site:
 Survey date:
Observer:
 Email address:
Total minutes:
 (Number only; no "+" or range)		 Temp range (F):
 Cloud cover (%):
Time of day & comments:

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Some species names are in light green. If you see any of these, take a documentation photo for your records. When in doubt, take a photo!

Species in RED or not on the list HAVE NOT BEEN SEEN DURING THE SURVEY. Take a documentation photo, send the photo attached to an email to Kevin Heffernan and Kathy Litzinger AND START CALLING OTHERS!

We have photos of most of the butterflies seen in Howard County HERE

Spread-winged Skippers
Silver-spotted Skipper
Long-tailed Skipper
Hoary Edge
Southern Cloudywing
Northern Cloudywing
Hayhurst's Scallopwing
Dreamy Duskywing
Sleepy_Duskywing
Juvenal's Duskywing
Horace's Duskywing
Wild Indigo Duskywing
Common Checkered-Skipper
Common Sootywing
Grass-Skippers
Swarthy Skipper
Clouded Skipper
Least Skipper
European Skipper
Fiery Skipper
Leonard's Skipper
Peck's Skipper
Tawny-edged Skipper
Crossline Skipper
Southern Broken-Dash
Northern Broken-Dash
Little Glassywing
Sachem
Mulberry Wing
Hobomok Skipper
Zabulon Skipper
Broad-winged Skipper
Dun Skipper
Dusted Skipper
Brazilian Skipper
Ocola Skipper
Swallowtails
Pipevine Swallowtail
Zebra Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
Giant Swallowtail
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail

Whites & Sulphurs
Checkered_White
Cabbage White
Falcate Orangetip
Clouded Sulphur
Orange Sulphur
Cloudless Sulphur
Little Yellow
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Gossamer-wings
Harvester
American Copper
Bronze Copper
Coral Hairstreak
Banded Hairstreak
Striped Hairstreak
Red-banded Hairstreak
Juniper Hairstreak
Brown Elfin
Henry's Elfin
Eastern Pine Elfin
Northern Oak Hairstreak
White M Hairstreak
Gray Hairstreak
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Spring Azure *
Azure species
Summer Azure *
* Photo required only in April
and early May
Brushfoots
American Snout
Variegated Fritillary
Great Spangled Fritillary
Meadow Fritillary
Silvery Checkerspot
Pearl Crescent
Baltimore Checkerspot
Question Mark
Eastern Comma
Mourning Cloak
American Lady
Painted Lady
Red Admiral
Common Buckeye
Red-spotted Purple
Viceroy
Hackberry Emperor
Tawny Emperor
Satyrs
Northern Pearly-eye
Appalachian Brown
Little Wood-Satyr
Common Wood-Nymph

Milkweed Butterflies
Monarch - adult
Monarch - caterpillar
Monarch - chrysalis
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