Butterflies of Southwestern Arizona

So you're crazy about butterflies and want to know more about what you'll see in Tucson.  You'll find a link below that will help you identify a number of butterflies observed in Tucson.  We have several great local resources from not only the Tucson Botanical Gardens, but from Desert Connections, and the Desert Museum.  This link will help you get started with our Sonoran Desert friends that visit during our hot monsoon season.
Here's a shot I took last year during the summer.  I was working on this blog and one of the new Swallowtails came to visit:)  This was taken outside my dining room window.

http://www.tucsonbotanical.org/desertconnections/TBG_butterflies.php

SWALLOWTAILS


Pipevine Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail



WHITES & SULPHURS

Cabbage White

Checkered White

Clouded Sulphur

Orange Sulphur

Southern Dogface

Cloudless Sulphur

Large Orange Sulphur

Sleepy Orange

Mexican Yellow

Boisduval’s Yellow

Dainty Sulphur



GOSSAMER WINGS

Gray Hairstreak

Reakirt’s Blue

Ceraunus Blue

Marine Blue

Western Pygmy-Blue



SNOUTS

American Snout



BRUSH FOOTS

Gulf Fritillary

Variegated Fritillary

Elada Checkerspot

Texan Crescent

Mourning Cloak

Painted Lady

West Coast Lady

Red Admiral

Common Buckeye

Tropical Buckeye

Empress Leilia

Monarch

Queen



SKIPPERS

Funereal Duskywing

White Common Checkered-Skipper

Orange Skipperling

Fiery Skipper

Eufala Skipper