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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
Julia Orangetip 9
Anthocharis julia
Large Marble 10
Euchloe ausonides
Olympia Marble 11
Euchloe olympia
Pine White 12
Neophasia menapia
Margined White 13
Pieris marginalis
Cabbage White 14
Pieris rapae
Western White 15
Pontia occidentalis
Checkered White 16
Pontia protodice
Spring White 3
Pontia sisymbrii

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