All photos are © and may not be used without permission.
Special thanks to Mr. Charles Bordelon, Mr. Mike Overton and
Mr. Mike Quinn for kindly offering expert identification
advice to a newbie with too many questions. Any ID
errors are the fault of the author (moi). As for the
photos, they are not super shots for the most part.
They are B grade, the new better photos taken with a
basic Canon Powershot SX40. Then we crop them overly
tight to save web space, and do not post at original full
resolution. They are merely for illustrative purposes,
to show and document what types are found here. Maybe
help someone put a name to something they saw without
having butterfly books handy, by narrowing down choices
to just what is here.
Click on a link below for each family (or sub-family) group.
Each has a series of photos of the species in that group
that are found here. Most of the regularly occurring
species are shown on these pages. Currently (Dec. 2022)
about 115 species are shown, of about 145 known here. Just under
eighty percent. Probably have pix of 15-20 more species,
have to find and process them yet. Now I know which to look for,
and which to grab better ones of. Still working on filling
in the blanks.
At the end of 2022 these pages got a long overdue major overhaul.
Over 70 all new higher res photos have been added to these pages.
Over 30 mostly higher-res pics that had recently been used on the
site on other pages, as a couple dozen news break photos the
last few years, but not ever placed in their proper family group
pages, have now all been added their proper pages to fill out missing
species or next level the photo quality. In all over a hundred way
better photos have been added to these pages in late Dec. 2022.
They are a whole new ballgame. Now with much better quality pix
and far more thorough coverage of what is here for study material
and documentation. The original pages pics were mostly kept up
as many (bad as they were) were NCR - new county record -
documentation photos turned in to Charles Bordelon, etc.
There is a line break denoting end of the newly added pics.
Much text has been added throughout all the pages.
Enjoy the awesome butterflies of Utopia!
Crimson Patch - the crimson wonder
Swallowtails
Monarchs (Milkweeds)
Blues
Whites, Yellows, Sulphurs, & Oranges
Hairstreaks
Metalmarks
Snout
Fritillaries and Longwings
Patches, Crescents & Checkers
Brushfoots
Satyrs
Skippers
Rare Butterflies
In case you missed it, a moth photos page too now.
Moths