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Butterflies of Rock Creek Park

Common butterflies expected in the military meadow in Rock Creek Park during the 2016 NPS & Nat Geo BioBlitz

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
Papilio glaucus
Clouded Sulphur 2
Colias philodice
Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
Cupido comyntas
Orange Sulphur 2
Colias eurytheme
Cabbage White 4
Pieris rapae
Pearl Crescent 5
Phyciodes tharos
Question Mark 6
Polygonia interrogationis
Little Wood Satyr 7
Megisto cymela
Red Admiral 8
Vanessa atalanta
American Lady 9
Vanessa virginiensis
Spring Azure 10
Celastrina ladon
Silver-spotted Skipper 11
Epargyreus clarus
Least Skipper 12
Ancyloxypha numitor
Spicebush Swallowtail 13
Papilio troilus
Black Swallowtail 14
Papilio polyxenes
Gray Hairstreak 15
Strymon melinus
Small Copper 16
Lycaena phlaeas
Mourning Cloak 17
Nymphalis antiopa
Red-spotted Purple 18
Limenitis arthemis astyanax
Zebra Swallowtail 19
Eurytides marcellus
Northern Cloudywing 20
Thorybes pylades
Juvenal's Duskywing 21
Erynnis juvenalis
Great Spangled Fritillary 22
Speyeria cybele
Dreamy Duskywing 21
Erynnis icelus
Peck's Skipper 23
Polites peckius
Common Buckeye 24
Junonia coenia
Monarch 25
Danaus plexippus
Zabulon Skipper 20
Poanes zabulon
Sachem 20
Atalopedes campestris
Pipevine Swallowtail 26
Battus philenor
Meadow Fritillary 20
Boloria bellona
Red-banded Hairstreak 27
Calycopis cecrops
Viceroy 28
Limenitis archippus
Silvery Checkerspot 29
Chlosyne nycteis
Wild Indigo Duskywing 29
Erynnis baptisiae
Falcate Orangetip 27
Anthocharis midea

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