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We love butterflies, and are still learning about them at this advanced age. This website helps organize our knowledge and focuses us on learning even more.

We've learned more about butterflies in the past year than we did in the previous 64 years! And we're learning along with our granddaughters, who also share our love of nature and the marvelous mysteries and lore of the butterfly.

We are not trained lepidopterists or entomologists, but merely amateurs fascinated by nature! There are undoubtedly others who are just beginning their journey toward understanding and identifying butterflies. Maybe this site will help them. For those who are more experienced and knowledgeable, there are many fine websites for them.

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Our butterfly photo archive is growing daily, but we have not yet been able to photograph all of the species people see in their home landscapes.

And special thanks go out to great nature photographers Alan Schmierer and Ranger Robb Hannawacker for sharing many of their beautiful photographs of butterflies with us via Flickr.

Send Us Your Butterfly Photos

We welcome your contributions!

If you have a photo to share, we would love to publish it so others can enjoy it too. Space is limited, so we are not able to post all of the photos we receive.

You can email your photos to info@butterfliesathome.com along with a description of the species, location taken, and other pertinent information. If you would like credit or a link back to you, include that as well. If it is a copyrighted image of yours, please give us appropriate permission to use the image on this website.

Thanks for visiting, and please visit again over time as we evolve this site!

Some Recent Butterfly Photos Submitted by Our Viewers

Red-spotted Purple Butterfly Mount Laurel, New Jersey (Photo by J. Conti, September, 2024)	Spicebush Swallowtail (male) Canton, Georgia (Photo by S. Mallya, July, 2024
Imperial Moth (female) Lebanon, Ohio (Photo by J. Martin, July 7, 2024)	Red-spotted Jezebel butterfly Buckaringa Sanctuary in the Flinders Ranges, Australia (Photo by T. Caldwell, July, 2024
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Canton, Georgia (Photo by S. Mallya, May 31, 2024)	Great Spangled Fritillary Canton, Georgia (Photo by S. Mallya, June 3, 2024)
Variegated Fritillary Comfort, Texas (Photo by D. Boorman, May, 2024)	Reakirt's Blue Comfort, Texas (Photo by D. Boorman, May, 2024)
Great Spangled Fritillary Winchester, New Hampshire (Photo by J. Forest, September 20, 2023)	Nature is everywhere, like in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park! Visit the park at our other website ...

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Jersey Tiger Moth Plymouth, UK (Photo by K. Pearce, August, 2023)	Red Admiral Butterfly South Ockendon, Essex, UK (Photo by the children & teachers, Quince Tree Day Nursery, July, 2023)
Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly Wexford, Ireland ( Photo by N. Wall, July, 2023)	Box Tree Moth Exeter, UK (September, 2023
Red Admiral Butterfly Barrow-in-Furness, UK (Photo by P. Swarbrick, July, 2023)	Question Mark Butterfly Cornville, AZ (Photo by R. McCloud, July, 2023)
Painted Lady Butterfly Canby, Minnesota (Photo by R. Cram, October 2, 2022)	European Peacock (Aglais io) butterfly Kent, UK (Photo by K. Mead, March, 2022)

Swallowtail Butterfly on Pokeweed Bob Jones Nature Center, Southlake, TX (Photo by D. Campbell, September 3, 2022)	Red-Spotted Purple Charlotte, Michigan (Photo by Elli, August 9, 2022
Comma Butterfly Kent, England (Photo by C. Clements, July, 2022	Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Oakland, Michigan (Photo by Sheila M, August 14, 2022)

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Alvaton, Kentucky (Photo by K. Goad, July 14, 2022

Police Car Moth Durango, Colorado (Photo by C. Lamb, July, 2022)

Cinnabar Moth Dunoon Argyll, Scotland (Photo by R. Turner, May, 2022)

Holly Blue Butterfly Twickenham Middlesex, London UK (Photo by J. Maseyk, May, 2022)

Great Spangled Fritillary Ohiopyle, PA (Photo by P. Livengood)	Specked Wood Butterfly Northampton, England (Photo by J Bodsworth, September, 2021)
Male Hypolimnas-bolina - Great Eggfly of Blue Moon Dhaka, Bangladesh (Photo by R. Nizam, January, 2022)	Pareronia valeria, the common or Malayan wanderer Hadinbal honnavar (U.K) Karnataka, India (Photo by Nagaraj Hegde)
Red-Spotted Purple, Argyle, Texas (Photos by H. Williams, October, 2021)
Naga Shalabham Moth spotted at the Idukki District of Kerala in India Atlas moths are one of the largest lepidopterans in the world with a wingspan measuring between 25–30 cm (9.8–11.8 in) and a wing surface area of about 400 cm2 (62 in2) (Photo by R Lakshmi, September, 2020)

 

Gatekeeper Butterfly Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, UK (Photo by D. Abbott, August, 2020)

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Oak Grove, Kentucky (Photo by S. Benson, August, 2020)

Male Monarch (top) and Queen Butterfly (bottom), in Texas (Photo by J. Brazell, October 23, 2021)

Welch Elementary School Butterfly Garden, Newnan, GA Monarch, Tiger Swallowtail and Gulf Fritillary (Photo by L. Rummel)

Black dimorphic female Tiger Swallowtail Catonsville, MD (Photo by Amanda, July, 2019)

Tiger Swallowtail Hurst, Texas (Photo by L. Massey, June, 2019)

 

Monarch Butterfly Assiniboine Park Winnipeg MB, Canada (Photo by E. Byzio, September 8, 2021)

Monarch Butterfly on a Cone Flower Massachusetts (Photo by Kristina Waid, July 23, 2019)

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly Manchester, England (Photo by D. Brownlie, July, 2019)

Painted Lady Butterfly in Penarth, South Wales, UK (Photo by J. Harris, August, 2019)

Luna Moth Garretts Bluff, Texas (Photo by LC)

Luna Moths mating Shenandoah, Texas (Photo by Tom Garvin, March 23, 2019)

Zebra Swallowtail Fayetteville, Alabama (Photo by J. Wombough, March 23, 2019)

European Peacock (Aglais io) butterfly Ruskington, Lincolnshire, UK (Photo by J. Miller, July, 2018)

Male Monarch Butterfly enjoying Swamp Milkweed Indian Lake County Park, Dane County, Wisconsin (Photo by S.R. Prebeg, August 8, 2018)

Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly, seen at Willilamsville, Missouri (Photo by T. Page, July, 2018) "Very friendly! Kept flying circles around me and landing beside me for almost 10 minutes and finally landed on my hand. "

Western Pygmy Blue butterfly (Brephidium exile) Cosumnes River Preserve, Sacramento County, California October 22, 2017 (Photo taken by Breck, with a Canon 7D Mark 2 camera with a Canon 100-400 IS II lens)

Mourning Cloak Butterfly, Whittier, California (Photo by S. Sanders)

Tiger Swallowtail butterfly Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden (Photo taken by E. Buchanan, June, 2017)

Female Tiger Swallowtail, dark dimorphic color Dallas Arboretum (Photo by E. Buchanan, June, 2018)

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania (Photo by Calvin Livengood)

Zebra Heliconian Mitchell Lake Audubon Center, San Antonio, TX October 22, 2016.(Photo by David B. Sweidel)

Giant Swallowtail on Lantana Texas in 2016 (Photo by L.F. - Irving, Texas)

Gulf Fritillary at Eisenhower Park San Antonio, TX, October 22, 2016 (Photo by Quinn Bergeon)

 

Cecropia Moth Lake Tyler, Texas (Photograph by SC)

Morphed female Tiger Swallowtail with multiple markings (Photo by D. Stamm)

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A newly hatched Black Swallowtail Butterfly (Photo by AM and HM, Tyler, Texas)

Butterfly drawing by the children at Quince Tree Day Nursery, South Ockendon, Essex, UK (May, 2024)