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

8 thoughts on “2022 Wisconsin Butterflies”

  1. I had no idea that there are so many different butterflies! They’ Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

  2. 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.

    1. 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.

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