This is a “year in review” photo gallery, of the different butterflies I photographed in Wisconsin this past year. 2022 was an amazing year for some of the rare or uncommon strays to our state, especially in Milwaukee County. Those included Marine Blue, Reakirt’s Blue, Common Checkered Skipper, California Tortoiseshell, Gray Hairstreak and Variegated Fritillary. When looking at the photos, if you are interested to see where a specific butterfly was seen, please navigate to the individual pages from the gallery page. You can do that by clicking on Butterflies and choosing a the one you want to see. Also, there is a great website for Wisconsin butterflies, that has photos for each specie and a description to help ID them. In addition, you can submit your sightings throughout the year. That website is, Home — wisconsinbutterflies.org. Enjoy!
‘Summer’ Spring Azure
American Copper
American Lady
American Snout
Aphrodite Fritillary
Appalachian Brown
Baltimore Checkerspot
Banded Hairstreak
Black Swallowtail
Bronze Copper
Cabbage White
Clouded Sulphur
Common Buckeye
Common Wood-Nymph
Coral Hairstreak
Delaware Skipper
Dun Skipper
Eastern Comma
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Edward’s Hairstreak
European Skipper
Eyed Brown
Fiery Skipper
Gray Comma
Gray Copper
Gray Hairstreak
Great Spangled Fritillary
Hackberry Emperor
‘Karner’ Melissa Blue
Least Skipper
Little Glassywing
Little Wood-Satyr
Long Dash
Marine Blue
Meadow Fritillary
Monarch
Mourning Cloak
Mulberry Wing
Northern Broken-Dash
Northern Cloudywing
Northern Crescent
Northern Pearly-eye
Orange Sulphur
Pearl Crescent
Peck’s Skipper
Purplish Copper
Question Mark
Reakirt’s Blue
Red Admiral
Red-spotted Purple
Sachem
Silver-spotted Skipper
Silvery Checkerspot
Tawny-edged Skipper
Variegated Fritillary
Viceroy
Wild Indigo Duskywing
Zebra Swallowtail
Very nice Jeremy!
Thank you Joe!
I had no idea that there are so many different butterflies! They’ Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
There are SO many more as well! Thank you Karen! You are welcome.
Excellent photos. It’s amazing that the Reakirt’s Blue could still fly with only veins left in the back wing area. Thanks for mentioning the butterfly reporting site, too. You are quite the photographer.
Thank you very much, Pam! I have seen some that barely have any wing on one side, even worse off than the Reakirt’s Blue, yet still fly around. Butterflies are quite impressive. You are welcome.
Amazing photos!
Thank you!