The first adult emerged today (June 2) from the group of caterpillars I collected last year in the Manastash hills southwest of Ellensburg, ...

I was almost right!  Thanks to Nick Grishin for verifying these: 1) female  Thorybes bathyllus  - southern cloudywing (correct, but wasn...

Ahhh... the delicate art of correctly identifying cloudywing skippers!  I finished mounting the specimens I collected in Oklahoma and now I...

Tired of all this rain? I'm sure it's helping something somewhere, but the butterflies... not so much.  I have never seen the Columb...

Indra swallowtail - Papilio indra The indra is special to me because it is one of the few local butterflies I always wanted to see, but nev...