Butterfly Sighting Lists

Ryan Brady
Location: Various portions of eastern Bayfield County
Bayfield County
Some casual observations while driving to work on this warm, early October day.

• Clouded Sulphur (4)
• Orange Sulphur (1)
• Mourning Cloak (3)
• Monarch (1)

Andy Paulios
Location: Zeloski Marsh
Jefferson County

• Cabbage White (10)
• Clouded Sulphur (10)
• Bronze Copper (1)
• Mourning Cloak (1)
• Milbert’s Tortoiseshell (20)
• Red Admiral (1)
• Viceroy (1)

Mike Reese
Location: Wautoma and Plainfield gardens.
Waushara County
The Common Checkered-Skipper was seen in the Plainfield community garden in downtown Plainfield.

• Cabbage White (1)
• Clouded Sulphur (4)
• Eastern Tailed-Blue (1)
• American Lady (1)
• Painted Lady (1)
• Monarch (2)
• Common Checkered-Skipper (1)
• Fiery Skipper (6)

Karl and Dorothy Legler
Location: From East Dubuque to Potosi
Grant County
One unidentified Lady also flew past.

• Cabbage White (9)
• Clouded Sulphur (25)
• Orange Sulphur (4)
• Little Yellow (6)
• Sleepy Orange (3)
• Dainty Sulphur (1)
• Eastern Tailed-Blue (4)
• Pearl Crescent (12)
• Question Mark (2)
• Eastern Comma (6)
• Common Buckeye (1)
• Viceroy (1)
• Common Checkered-Skipper (1)
• Fiery Skipper (6)

Todd Sima
Location: Two areas along the Wisconsin River
Richland County
This past week I was still finding Eastern Forktails and American Rubyspots but was surprised today to find a Blue- Fronted Dancer and Hagens Bluet. But the real Rush was finding an Elusive Clubtail with those bright Blue Eyes!

• Cabbage White (3)
• Clouded Sulphur (5+)
• Orange Sulphur (1)
• Dainty Sulphur (2)
• American Copper (1)
• Pearl Crescent (3)
• Eastern Comma (3)
• Common Buckeye (1)
• Monarch (2)

Mike Reese
Location: Wautoma
Waushara County
The Fiery Skippers were seen at three separate sites.

• Clouded Sulphur (2)
• Painted Lady (1)
• Monarch (2)
• Fiery Skipper (9)

James
Location: UW - Fond du Lac
Fond Du Lac County
A pair of butterflies discovered on my lunch break on the north side of the campus.

• Clouded Sulphur (2)

Jorgen Goderstad
Location: Olbrich Gardens
Dane County
The monarchs seemed to all cluster around some tall purple flowers. They were so thick.

• Cabbage White (6)
• Clouded Sulphur (1)
• Monarch (14)
• Fiery Skipper (6)

Ann Thering
Location: Olbrich Botanical Garden
Dane County

• Cabbage White (10)
• Clouded Sulphur (1)
• American Lady (1)
• Painted Lady (8)
• Red Admiral (1)
• Common Buckeye (1)
• Monarch (30+)
• Silver-spotted Skipper (3)
• Fiery Skipper (30+)

Ann Thering
Location: My Yard
Dane County

• Eastern Tailed-Blue (1)
• Fiery Skipper (9)

Mike Reese
Location: Meyer Oak Grove
Sauk County

• Clouded Sulphur (2)
• Monarch (5)
• Fiery Skipper (6)

Mike Reese
Location: Avoca Wildlife Area
Iowa County
The Juniper Hairstreak is very unusual this late.

• Checkered White (3)
• Cabbage White (5+)
• Clouded Sulphur (10+)
• Orange Sulphur (4)
• Little Yellow (20+)
• Sleepy Orange (8)
• Dainty Sulphur (50+)
• American Copper (5)
• Juniper Hairstreak (1)
• Pearl Crescent (3)
• Eastern Comma (4)
• Gray Comma (1)
• Mourning Cloak (1)
• Red Admiral (1)
• Common Buckeye (12)
• Monarch (4)
• Fiery Skipper (1)

Ron Arnold
Location: town of Seneca
Wood County

• Cabbage White (3+)
• Clouded Sulphur (5+)
• Orange Sulphur (3+)
• Eastern Tailed-Blue (2)
• American Lady (1)
• Common Buckeye (2)
• Monarch (1)
• Common Checkered-Skipper (4)

Ann Thering
Location: My Yard
Dane County
The Black Swallowtails were caterpillars.

• Black Swallowtail (3)
• Cabbage White (2)
• Clouded Sulphur (2)
• Eastern Tailed-Blue (1)
• Pearl Crescent (1)
• Painted Lady (3)
• Monarch (1)
• Fiery Skipper (10)
• Peck’s Skipper (1)

Mike Reese
Location: DNR land off Dearborn Ave.
Marquette County
Still lots of goldenrod in flower

• Clouded Sulphur (3)
• Dainty Sulphur (1)
• American Copper (4)
• Eastern Tailed-Blue (1)
• Common Buckeye (3)
• Monarch (1)
• Fiery Skipper (2)

Mike Reese
Location: White River Marsh
Green Lake County

• Checkered White (3)
• Cabbage White (10+)
• Clouded Sulphur (20+)
• Orange Sulphur (15+)
• Dainty Sulphur (6)
• Gray Hairstreak (1)
• Painted Lady (1)
• Common Buckeye (4)
• Monarch (13)
• Common Checkered-Skipper (1)
• Fiery Skipper (1)

Ann Thering
Location: Allen Centennial Gardens
Dane County
Two Gray Hairstreaks, one old, one new. One of the Common Buckeyes had a very red lower hindwing.

• Cabbage White (4)
• Gray Hairstreak (2)
• Painted Lady (5)
• Common Buckeye (2)
• Monarch (2)
• Fiery Skipper (7)

Jorgen Goderstad
Location: Fitchburg, 1 mile north of Oregon, WI
Dane County
I spotted these two in my garden this morning. Both were a surprise. It was the first Milbert’s Tortoiseshell I had seen this year, and I had never seen a Little Yellow before.

• Little Yellow (1)
• Milbert’s Tortoiseshell (1)

Andy Paulios
Location: Nine Springs Sewage Treatment Area
Dane County

• Little Yellow (1)
• Eastern Tailed-Blue (1)
• Painted Lady (3)
• Red Admiral (1)
• Monarch (1)

Mike Reese
Location: White River Marsh
Green Lake County

• Cabbage White (3)
• Clouded Sulphur (26)
• Orange Sulphur (10)
• Dainty Sulphur (2)
• Eastern Tailed-Blue (1)
• Common Buckeye (1)
• Monarch (1)
• Common Checkered-Skipper (1)
• Fiery Skipper (1)

Ann Thering
Location: UW campus
Dane County

• Cabbage White (4)
• Clouded Sulphur (1)
• Painted Lady (7)
• Fiery Skipper (10+)

Adrian Konell
Location: Harmony Arboretum, Grover Township
Marinette County

• Orange Sulphur (1)
• Red Admiral (1)

Ron Arnold
Location: town of Seneca
Wood County
High temperature today was 62. The Dainty Sulphur was in my prairie restoration in the same area as all previous sightings for this year. The weedy field where the Checkered Skippers have been was mowed off this past week, but I found one Checkered Skipper along the edge.

• Clouded Sulphur (11+)
• Orange Sulphur (3)
• Dainty Sulphur (1)
• Common Buckeye (1)
• Common Checkered-Skipper (1)

Todd Sima
Location: Goose Island
Vernon County

• Eastern Comma (4)
• Fiery Skipper (1)

Ann Thering
Location: My Yard
Dane County

• Painted Lady (1)
• Fiery Skipper (1)

Ann Thering
Location: UW Campus
Dane County

• Cabbage White (5)
• Eastern Comma (1)
• Painted Lady (11)
• Common Buckeye (2)
• Monarch (3)
• Fiery Skipper (10)

Todd Sima
Location: LWR Avoca areas
Iowa County
I have only seen one Sleepy so far this fall with the fall white markings and that was two weeks ago. Both of the ones that I saw today still had the summer orange markings. I also saw twenty plus Autumn Meadowhawks and three Darners.

• Checkered White (1)
• Clouded Sulphur (10+)
• Orange Sulphur (2)
• Little Yellow (3)
• Sleepy Orange (2)
• Dainty Sulphur (10+)
• Pearl Crescent (1)
• Eastern Comma (3)
• Mourning Cloak (3)
• Red Admiral (2)
• Common Buckeye (4)
• Monarch (1)

Todd Sima
Location: LWR Muscada and Blue River Units
Grant County

• Clouded Sulphur (20+)
• Orange Sulphur (3)
• Little Yellow (1)
• Dainty Sulphur (5+)
• Eastern Tailed-Blue (1)
• Eastern Comma (4)
• Mourning Cloak (2)
• Painted Lady (1)
• Red Admiral (2)
• Common Buckeye (5+)

Ron Arnold
Location: my yard
Wood County

• Clouded Sulphur (2)

Ann Thering, Mike Reese
Location: Avoca Wildlife Area
Iowa County

• Checkered White (1+)
• Clouded Sulphur (10+)
• Orange Sulphur (2)
• Little Yellow (15)
• Sleepy Orange (5)
• Dainty Sulphur (15+)
• Eastern Tailed-Blue (2)
• Pearl Crescent (1)
• Eastern Comma (1)
• Painted Lady (3)
• Common Buckeye (3)
• Monarch (2)
• Fiery Skipper (1)

Ron Arnold
Location: town of Seneca
Wood County

• Clouded Sulphur (21+)
• Orange Sulphur (3)
• Eastern Tailed-Blue (1)
• Monarch (1)

Andy Paulios
Location: Home
Dane County

• Red Admiral (1)

Adrian Konell
Location: Lake Township
Marinette County

• Mourning Cloak (1)

Glenda Denniston
Location: Lakeshore Nature Preserve, UW Madison campus
Dane County
The butterfly flew onto a shrub, sat there for just long enough for me to take a couple fairly distant zoom photos, but not long enough for me to approach and use my macro settings. When it flew I had the impression that it was quite orange on the upper side.

• Large Orange Sulphur (1)

Jorgen Goderstad
Location: Olbrich Gardens, Madison
Dane County
It was a delight to still see so many butterflies this late in the season. The skippers seem to prefer the herb garden which is well protected.

• Cabbage White (6)
• Mourning Cloak (1)
• Painted Lady (2)
• Monarch (4)
• Silver-spotted Skipper (1)
• Fiery Skipper (2)

Mike Reese
Location: Greenwood Refuge
Waushara County

• Orange Sulphur (3)
• Dainty Sulphur (1)
• American Lady (1)
• Common Buckeye (1)
• Monarch (1)

Ann Thering
Location: UW campus
Dane County

• Cabbage White (2)
• Clouded Sulphur (5)
• Mourning Cloak (1)
• American Lady (1)
• Painted Lady (12+)
• Common Buckeye (4)
• Monarch (2)
• Fiery Skipper (7+)

Mike Reese
Location: White River Marsh
Green Lake County
There might have been more Checkered-Skippers but they were flying around so fast that I really couldn’t count. I did see six in one swirl of activity. Very late Gorgone Checkerspot.

• Checkered White (2)
• Clouded Sulphur (5)
• Orange Sulphur (12)
• Dainty Sulphur (5)
• Gorgone Checkerspot (1)
• Painted Lady (3)
• Common Buckeye (2)
• Monarch (6)
• Common Checkered-Skipper (6)

Andy Paulios
Location: Lewis Park McFarland
Dane County

• Cabbage White (1)
• Clouded Sulphur (2)
• Little Yellow (1)
• Mourning Cloak (1)
• Fiery Skipper (2)

Ron Arnold
Location: town of Seneca and marsh/bog areas in the town of Cranmoor
Wood County

• Clouded Sulphur (10)
• Orange Sulphur (2)
• Dainty Sulphur (1)

Ann Thering
Location: UW Campus
Dane County

• Cabbage White (2)
• Clouded Sulphur (4)
• Orange Sulphur (1)
• Painted Lady (18)
• Monarch (1)
• Fiery Skipper (8+)

Todd Sima
Location: LWR Millville Wyalusing and Bagley
Grant County
I found another Elusive Clubtail and a Variegated Meadowhawk for the icing on the cake!

• Clouded Sulphur (20+)
• Orange Sulphur (3)
• Eastern Comma (15+)
• Common Buckeye (3)
• Monarch (1)

Karl and Dorothy Legler
Location: UW Campus
Dane County

• Cabbage White (1)
• Clouded Sulphur (6)
• Orange Sulphur (1)
• Dainty Sulphur (1)
• Painted Lady (15)
• Common Buckeye (2)
• Monarch (2)
• Fiery Skipper (1)

Ann Thering
Location: UW Campus
Dane County

• Cabbage White (4)
• Clouded Sulphur (3)
• Mourning Cloak (1)
• Painted Lady (14)
• Red Admiral (1)
• Common Buckeye (1)
• Fiery Skipper (6)

Mike Reese, Nora Dooley
Location: Riverside Park and another area about 1 mile N of there
La Crosse County
Despite cool temps the sun was out and so were the butterflies, mainly on still lots of nectar sources in garden areas.

• Checkered White (1)
• Cabbage White (1)
• Clouded Sulphur (5+)
• Orange Sulphur (5+)
• Dainty Sulphur (7)
• Variegated Fritillary (1)
• Pearl Crescent (1)
• Milbert’s Tortoiseshell (1)
• Painted Lady (1)
• Monarch (1)
• Fiery Skipper (6+)
• Sachem (1)

Andy Paulios
Location: Mississippi River
Crawford County

• Common Buckeye (1)
• Monarch (2)

Mike Reese
Location: White River Marsh
Green Lake County
Sunny, but very breezy with temperatures in the lower 50s.

• Orange Sulphur (2)

Ann Thering
Location: Back Yard
Dane County

• Clouded Sulphur (1)

Ann Thering
Location: UW Campus
Dane County

• Cabbage White (6)
• Clouded Sulphur (6)
• Painted Lady (18)
• Monarch (1)
• Fiery Skipper (12)

Ann Thering
Location: UW Campus
Dane County
Very windy! One of the American Ladies was small and fresh.

• Cabbage White (4)
• Clouded Sulphur (3)
• American Lady (2)
• Painted Lady (15)
• Monarch (1)
• Fiery Skipper (8)