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Hessel's Hairstreak - this uncommon butterfly is related to the Juniper Hairstreak, but lives in Atlantic White Cedar (its host plant) swamps
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Eastern Pine Elfin - the host plants of this beauty are various species of pine tree
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Silver-bordered Fritillary on Spotted Joe-Pye Weed
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Baltimore Checkerspot
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Monarch on Asters
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Guava Skipper
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Black Swallowtail
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Regal Fritillary - this species is unfortunately in great decline, and exists in just this one location east of the Mississippi River, on a military base, which, together with the Nature Conservancy, is doing its best to help this population survive.
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Regal Fritillary male and female
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Regal and Great Spangled Fritillarys
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Regal Fritillary
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Mexican Bluewing
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Banded Hairstreak
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Northern Cloudywing
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Spicebush Swallowtail
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Hoary Edge
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Red-spotted Purple
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Leonard's Skipper
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American Copper
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Monarch on Goldenrod
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Leonard's Skipper
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Blue Copper
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Rockslide Checkerspot - this checkerspot lives in rockslides above the tree line in the western US mountains
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Rockslide Checkerspot
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Milbert's Tortoiseshell
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Mariposa Copper
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Purplish Copper male and female
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Small Wood-nymph
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Blue Copper female
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Pine White
