Butterfly List

Butterflies are amazing creatures once you get a chance to look at them up close. Like everybody else, I've lived most of my life not paying much attention to them.

When my son was transitioning from baby to toddler and I started pointing things out to him, I started to notice things I hadn't noticed much since I was...two? Now my toddler enjoys sitting in the yard with me, looking at bugs. This section attempts to identify and catalogue butterflies into a cohesive butterfly list I have seen while traveling for Notes from the Road.

Butterflies are mentioned in many of articles, especially in The Blue Butterfly at the End of the Loneliest Road and in several articles in the Isthmus section.

I welcome any corrections and comments.

California Sister

California Sister Butterfly

Common Ringlet

Sonoran Metalmark

Isabella's Heliconian

Photographed in Soberania National Park.

Monarch

Tracta Sister (Nicaragua)

Tracta Sister

Erato Heliconian

Erato Heliconian Butterfly

Banded Peacock (Panama)

Banded Peacock Butterfly

Orange Sulphur (Oregon)

Orange Sulphur in Oregon

Cloudless Sulphur (Panama)

Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly

Mylitta Crescent

Pearl Crescent

Painted Lady

Carolina Satyr

Heliconius Sapho (Panama)

Heliconius Sapho Butterfly

Menelaus Blue Morpho (Panama)

Menelaus Blue Morpho Butterfly

Elf (Nicaragua)

Elf Butterfly in Nicaragua

Mexican Bluewing (Nicaragua)

Mexican Bluewing

Cabbage White

Cabbage White Butterfly

California Tortoiseshell

California Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Butterfly

Western Tiger Swallowtail (Oregon)

Square-spotted Blue (Mt Hood)

Square-spotted Blue

Silvery Blue (Mt Hood)

Silvery Blue Butterfly

Western White (Mt Hood)

Western White Butterfly

Lorquin's Admiral (Oregon)

Lorquin's Admiral Butterfly

Acmon Blue

Leanira Checkerspot

Leanire Checkerspot

Milbert's Tortoiseshell

Milberts Tortoiseshell

Blue Copper

Blue Copper Butterfly

Hoffman's Checkerspot

Woodland Skipper

Ithomiidae Chiapas Glasswing Butterfly (Panama)

Ithomiidae Chiapas Glasswing Butterfly

Three Banded Crescent (Panama)

Three Banded Crescent

Claudina Crescent (Panama)

Claudina Crescent

Blue-patched Eyed-Metalmark (Panama)

Blue-patched Eyed-Metalmark

Two-Barred Flasher (Panama)

Two-Barred Flasher

Creon Skipper, Lilliana subspecies (Panama)

Creon Skipper, Lilliana subspecies

Smooth-Banded Sister (Panama)

Smooth-Banded Sister

Lagora Eyemark (Panama)

Lagora Eyemark

Oileus Giant Owl (Panama)

Oileus Giant Owl

Hyalina Metalmark (Panama)

Hyalina Metalmark

Elegant Flat Spreadwing (Panama)

Elegant Flat Spreadwing

Thoas Swallowtail (Panama)

Thoas Swallowtail

Costa-Spotted Mimic White (Panama)

Costa-Spotted Mimic White

Orange-patched Crescent (Panama)

Orange-patched Crescent

Yellow-veined Skipper (Panama)

Yellow-veined Skipper

Red Admiral (Austria)

Red Admiral

Hammock Skipper (Bahamas)

Hammock Skipper

White Peacock (Bahamas)

White Peacock

Desert Orangetip (California)

Variegated Fritillary (Bahamas) - unsure

Variegated Fritillary

Gulf Fritillary (Bahamas)

Gulf Fritillary

Cuban Crescent (Bahamas)

Cuban Crescent

Western Pygmy Blue (California)

Western Pygmy Blue

Unidentified

Unidentified Satyr (Panama)

Woodland Skipper

Unidentified Butterfly (Panama)

Woodland Skipper

Unidentified Long Tailed Skipper (Panama)

Woodland Skipper

Unidentified (Bahamas)

Butterfly

Unidentified (Bahamas)

Butterfly

Unidentified Skipper (Panama)

Butterfly

Unidentified Longwing (Panama)

Woodland Skipper

Unidentified Butterfly (Panama)

Woodland Skipper

Unidentified Butterfly (Panama)

Woodland Skipper

Unidentified Butterfly (Panama)

Woodland Skipper

Unidentified Butterfly (Panama) - a Ithomiinae/Clearwing, possible Olyras crathis

Woodland Skipper

Unidentified Skipper (Panama)

Woodland Skipper

Unidentified Skipper (Panama)

Woodland Skipper

Unidentified Butterfly (Panama)

Woodland Skipper

Unidentified (Oregon in May)

Butterfly in the Bahamas

Unidentified (Oregon in May)

Butterfly in the Bahamas

Unidentified (Oregon in June)

Butterfly in Oregon

Unidentified (Oregon in June)

Butterfly in Oregon

Unidentified (Oregon in June)

Butterfly in Oregon