Florida Butterflies

These photos were taken on a package holiday to Florida in the 1st fortnight in September 2023. We were based in New Smyrna Beach & were restricted to a few sites accessible by foot or on bicycle.  We were self guided on all the trips we took & used a small guidebook (Butterflies of Florida by Jaret C. Daniels) for identification purposes. Most of the large butterflies should be correctly named but when it comes to the skippers I found ID's pretty difficult & am therefore not confident that I have everything named correctly. It was a good place for butterflies given our limited area of travel but the heat & humidity (& biting insects) made long days in the field pretty exhausting. Still, all in all we had a great time butterfly hunting & were fairly happy with the results.

Giant Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Great Southern White

Barred Sulphur

Cloudless Sulphur

Dainty Sulphur

Zebra Longwing

Gulf Fritillary

Common Buckeye

Mangrove Buckeye

White Peacock

Phaon Crescent

Tawny Emperor

Monarch

Gray Hairstreak

Ceranus Blue

Cassius Blue

Horaces Duskywing

Mangrove Skipper

Long-tailed Skipper

Delaware Skipper

Southern Skipperling

Whirlabout

Tropical Checkered Skipper

Salt Marsh Skipper