Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Phoebis agarithe - Large Orange Sulphur


Types of Butterflies
An organized guide providing pictures and articles for North American butterfly species.

Butterfly Pictures gallery also provides an extensive list of North American Species

Notes on the Butterflies of North Carolina
A downloadable PDF file with extensive data on habitats, hostplants, flight dates, and range in the Carolinas. You must give an e-mail address to reach the download--the authors want to inform you of updates. (This is produced by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, a state agency.)

(I thought I had posted this before, but cannot find it.)

Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
The main checklist is a list of Florida lepidoptera organized by family and then by genus and species names. There are links to two other lists for reference at the top of the checklist page. One is a list of the common names of all Florida leps. The other is a list of species names, arranged alphabetically by species. For instance, Hyles lineata is found under lineata, along with Diastema lineata and Schinia lineata.

This link takes you to a welcome page for the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA) Museum of Entomology - the checklist is reached from a li

John Abbot Lepidoptera Watercolors
Scans from a rare book of lepidoptera watercolors, circa 1830. 147 plates showing larvae and adults. Searchable and contains scientific names, though the taxonomy is surely dated.

HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database
By The Natural History Museum in London, UK, a searchable database of the hostplants and foods of the world's caterpillars

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Lepidoptera Checklist
Extensive checklist, including moths.

Southern Lepidopterists Society
The online home for the Southern Lepidopterists Society, established in 1978.

As here at BugGuide, you can submit photos of unknown leps for others to identify.

The Butterflies and Skippers of North America
An "enhanced" version of the Butterflies of North America site.