Butterflies and Skippers

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Butterflies are not insects. … They are self-propelled flowers.

Robert A. Heinlein

American Lady Caterpillar

Zebra Swallowtail

Zebra Swallowtail

Zebra Swallowtail Caterpillar in Pawpaw Flower

Young Zebra Swallowtail Caterpillar on Pawpaw Leaf

Zebra Swallowtail Caterpillar

Zebra Longwings on Spanish Moss

Zebra Longwing Caterpillar

Zebra Longwing on Wild Poinsettia

Zebra Longwing Chrysalis

Zarucco Duskywing Caterpillar

Yucca Giant-skipper

Yucca Giant-skipper Chrysalis

Yucca Giant-skipper Caterpillar

Yucca Giant-skipper Caterpillar

Yellow x Black Phase of Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on Red Pentas

Wild Indigo Duskywing Eggs

Wild Indigo Duskywing Caterpillar

White Peacock Chrysalis

White M Hairstreak

Viola's Wood Satyr

Viceroy Profile View

Viceroy Caterpillar

Viceroy Caterpillar on Willow

Newly Emerged Variegated Fritillary Beside Its Chrysalis

Variegated Fritillary

Variegated Fritillary Chrysalis

Variegated Fritillary Chrysalis

Variegated Fritillary Caterpillar

Variegated Fritillary Caterpillar

Variegated Fritillary and Gulf Fritillary Caterpillars

Twin-spot Skipper

Twin-spot Skipper Nectaring at Iris

Tropical Checkered-skipper

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Caterpillar

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Caterpillar

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Caterpillar

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Caterpillar

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Caterpillar

Three-spotted Skipper

Three-spotted-Skipper

Tawny Emperor Eggs

Tawny Emperor Chrysalis

Tawny Emperor Caterpillars

Tawny Emperor Caterpillars

Tawny Emperor Profile

Tawny Emperor Laying Eggs

'Sweadner's' Juniper Hairstreak

‘Sweadner’s’ Juniper Hairstreak Caterpillar on Red Cedar

Swarthy Skipper

Swarthy Skipper

Swarthy Skipper Chrysalis

Swarthy Skipper Caterpillar

Striped Hairstreak

Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar

Newly Emerged Spicebush Swallowtail

Spicebush Swallowtail Nectaring on Florida Flame Azalea

Spicebush Swallowtail Chrysalis

Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar inside Sassafras Leaf

Southern Skipperling

Southern Skipperling

Southern Pearly-eye

Southern Pearly-eye Caterpillar

Southern Dogface

Southern Dogface Caterpillar

Southern Dogface in Flight

Southern Cloudywing

Southern Cloudywing

Southern Cloudywing

Southern Cloudywing Caterpillar

Southern Broken-dash

Southern Broken-dash

Sleepy Orange Caterpillar

Sleepy Orange Caterpillar

Mating Silvery Checkerspots

Silvery Checkerspot

Silvery Checkerspot

Silvery Checkerspot Caterpillars

Silver-spotted Skipper

Silver-spotted Skipper

Silver-spotted Skipper Eggs

Silver-spotted Skipper Caterpillar

Silver-banded Hairstreak

'Seminole' Texan Crescent

Salt Marsh Skipper

Salt Marsh Skipper

Ruddy Daggerwing

Ruddy Daggerwing

Ruddy Daggerwing Caterpillar

Reversed Roadside-skipper

Red-spotted Purple

Red-spotted Purple

Red-spotted Purple Beside Chrysalis

Red-spotted Purple Chrysalis

Red-banded Hairstreak

Red Admiral Chrysalis

Red Admiral Caterpillar

Red Admiral Caterpillar

Question Mark Caterpillar

Queen Caterpillar

Polydamas Swallowtail Caterpillars

Polydamas Swallowtail Caterpillar

Polydamas Swallowtail

Pipevine Swallowtail Eggs

Pipevine Swallowtail Chrysalis

Pipevine Swallowtail Caterpillars

Pipevine Swallowtail Caterpillar

Pipevine Swallowtail on Oakleaf Hydrangea Flower

Pipevine Swallowtail

Phaon Crescent Profile View

Pearl Crescent Chrysalis

Pearl Crescent Caterpillar

Parasitic Wasp on Hackberry Emperor Eggs

Palmetto Skipper

Palatka Skipper

Palamedes Swallowtail

Palamedes Swallowtail

Palamedes Swallowtail Caterpillar

Orange-barred Sulphur

Orange-barred Sulphur

Orange-barred Sulphur Caterpillar

Northern Cloudywing

Courting Northern Broken-dashes

Mating Northern Broken-dashes

Nickerbean Blue

Neamathla Skipper

Neamathla Skipper

Mottled Duskywing

Monarch Chrysalis

Monarch Chrysalis in Clear Stage Just Before Emergence of Butterfly

Monarch Chrysalis

Mnarch in ‘J’ Position Before Forming Chrysalis

Monarch Caterpillar

Miami Blue Chrysalis

Miami Blue Caterpillar

Meske's Skipper

Meske's Skipper

Mating Mallow Scrub-hairstreaks

Mating Clouded Skippers

Mating Barred Yellows

Martial Scrub-hairstreak

Martial Scrub-hairstreak

Many-banded Daggerwing

Many-banded Daggerwing

Mangrove Skipper

Mangrove Skipper Caterpillar

Male Zarucco Duskywing

Male Zabulon Skipper

Male Zabulon Skipper

Male Wild Indigo Duskywing

Male Whirlabout

Male Whirlabout

Male Tawny-edged Skipper

Male Tawny-edged Skipper

Male Spicebush Swallowtail

Male Horace's Duskywing

Male Florida Duskywing

Male Fiery Skipper

Male Fiery Skipper

Male Crossline Skipper

Male Ceraunus Blue with Open Wings Revealing Blue Coloration

Male Black Swallowtail

Malachite Chrysalis

Malachite Caterpillar

Long-tailed Skipper

Long-tailed Skipper

Long-tailed Skipper Caterpillar

Little Yellow Caterpillar

Little Wood Satyr

Little Metalmark Caterpillar

Little Metalmark

Little Metalmark Profile View

Little Glassywing

Lace-winged Roadside-skipper Caterpillar

Lace-winged Roadside-skipper

Lace-winged Roadside-skipper

King's Hairstreak

Juvenal's Duskywing

Julia Caterpillar

Horace's Duskywing Caterpillar

Hoary Edge Caterpillar

Harvester 'Feeding' on Woolly Aphids

Harvester Chrysalis

Harvester Caterpillar

Hammock Skipper

Hackberry Emperor Chrysalis

Hackberry Emperor Caterpillar

Hackberry Emperor

Hackberry Emperor

Gulf Fritillary Chrysalis

Gulf Fritillary Chrysalis Caterpillar

Gulf Fritillary and Variegated Fritillary Caterpillars

Gulf Fritillary

Melanistic Gulf Fritillary

Gulf Fritillary Profile View

Great Southern White Caterpillar

Great Southern White

Great Purple Hairstreak

Great Purple Hairstreak on Mistletoe

Gray Hairstreak with Wings Open

Golden Banded-skipper Eggs

Golden Banded-skipper Caterpillar

Golden Banded-skipper

Golden Banded-skipper

Goatweed Leafwing Caterpillar

Goatweed Leafwing Caterpillar

Goatweed Leafwing Caterpillar

Giant Swallowtail on Pentas

Giant Swallowtail Eggs

Giant Swallowtail Chrysalis

Giant Swallowtail Caterpillar

Giant Swallowtail Caterpillar

Fulvous Hairstreak

Frosted Elfin Egg

Frosted Elfin Caterpillar

Florida Dusted Skipper

Fiery Skipper Caterpillar

Female Zabulon Skipper

Female Whirlabout

Black Phase of Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Female Spicebush Swallowtail

Female Horace's Duskywing

Female Horace's Duskywing

Female Great Southern White

Female Florida Duskywing

Female Fiery Skipper

Female Fiery Skipper

Black Phase of Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Black Phase of Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Female Dion Skipper

Female Dina Yellow

Female Cloudless Sulphur

Female Clouded Skipper

Female Cassius Blue

Female Byssus Skipper

Female Black Swallowtail

Eufala Skipper Caterpillar

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tailed-blue

Eastern Pygmy-blue

Eastern Pygmy-blue

Dorantes Longtail

Dorantes Longtail

Delaware Skipper

Crossline Skipper

Coral Hairstreak

Confused Cloudywing

Confused Cloudywing

Confused Cloudywing

Common Wood Nymph

Common Wood Nymph Profile View

Common or Tropical Checkered-skipper Caterpillar

Common Checkered-skipper

Common Buckeye Caterpillar on False Foxglove Flower

Common Buckeye Caterpillar

Cofaqui Giant-skipper

Mating Cloudless Sulphurs

Cloudless Sulphur Chrysalis

Cloudless Sulphurs Chrysalis

Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillars

Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar

Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar

Clouded Skipper Chrysalis

Clouded Skipper Caterpillar

Clouded Skipper

Checkered White

Cassius Blue Caterpillar

Carolina Satyr Egg

Buckeye Chrysalis

Brown Elfin Caterpillar on Mountain Laurel Flower

Broad-winged Skipper

Brazilian Skipper Nest

Brazilian Skipper Caterpillar

Brazilian Skipper

Black Phase of Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail Egg

Black Swallowtail Chrysalis

Black Swallowtail Caterpillars

Black Swallowtail Caterpillar

Berry's Skipper

Banded Hairstreak

Atala Chrysalis

Atala Chrysalis

Atala Chrysalides

Arogos Skipper Chrysalis

Arogos Skipper Caterpillar

Appalachian Brown

American Snout with Wings Open

American Snout Caterpillar