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Denver-Boulder Metro Area: Butterflies and Moths

This guide contains butterflies and moths that can be found in the Denver-Boulder Metro Area, including Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson Counties.

Southern Dogface 1
Zerene cesonia
Little Yellow 2
Pyrisitia lisa
Lyside Sulphur 2
Kricogonia lyside
Cloudless Sulphur 3
Phoebis sennae
Mexican Yellow 4
Eurema mexicana
Dainty Sulphur 3
Nathalis iole
Queen Alexandra’s Sulphur 5
Colias alexandra
Orange Sulphur 6
Colias eurytheme
Mead's Sulphur 7
Colias meadii
Clouded Sulphur 6
Colias philodice
Scudder's Sulphur 5
Colias scudderii
Sleepy Orange 8
Abaeis nicippe

Edited by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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  • 1. (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 2. (c) Greg Lasley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Greg Lasley
  • 3. (c) Jerry Oldenettel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
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  • 8. (c) Louis Shackleton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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