NH Butterflies

Recordings from the 2024 NH Butterfly Monitoring Network webinar series.

The following is a list of butterfly species in New Hampshire including their common habitat, host plants, dates they are observed as an adult, and…

Large skippers that land with their wings spread open such as the dreamy duskywing, Horace’s duskywing, Juvenal’s duskywing and wild indigo duskywing.

Larger dark-colored skippers are reviewed, including the northern cloudywing, southern cloudywing and silver-spotted skipper.

Small grassland butterflies such as the crossline skipper, sassacus skipper, Leonard’s skipper, tawny-edged, cobweb skipper, and peck’s skipper.

Mostly brown-winged brushfoot butterflies usually with an eyespot present, including the little wood satyr, northern pearly eye, Appalachian brown…

More Brown colored butterflies including the common wood nymph, common buckeye and those that are camouflaged on the underwing: Milbert’s…

Butterflies named for the angular notches on the edges of the forewings including eastern comma, green comma, and question mark.

Tailed butterflies that feed on shrubs and trees including coral hairstreak, Arcadian hairstreak, gray hairstreak and others.

A list of field guides useful for identifying butterflies in New Hampshire.