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Discover Nearby Nature: The Moths of Northern Virginia
             

Tiger Moths
Arctiidae

A large and diverse family with many familiar species. Many have Many species have hairy or bristly caterpillars, often called "wooly bears."

Pipevine Swallowtail
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Zebra Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
 
 
             
Whites & Sulphurs
Pieridae
Cabbage White

Clouded Sulphur
Orange Sulphur
  
 
Falcate Orangetip
Checkered White
Cloudless Sulphur
             
 

Sleepy Orange Sulphur
 
 
Little Yellow
 
             
Gossamer Wings
Lycaenidae
Red-banded Hairstreak
Gray Hairstreak
Eastern-tailed Blue
Summer Azure
 
Banded Hairstreak
White M Hairstreak
             
Brush Footed Butterflies
Nymphalidae
Great-spangled Fritillary
Meadow Fritillary
Variegated Fritillary
Regal Fritillary
Pearl Crescent
Silvery Checkerspot
 
Regal Fritillary
             
 
Question Mark
Comma
Mourning Cloak
American Lady
Painted Lady
Red Admiral
 
             
 
Buckeye Butterfly
Red-spotted Purple
Viceroy
Hackberry Emperor
 
Northern Pearly-eye
Appalachian Brown
             
 
Little Wood Satyr
Common Wood Nymph
Monarch
 
 
 
             
Skippers
Hesperiidae
Silver-spotted Skipper
Common Checkered Skipper

 
 
Juvenal’s Duskywing
Horace’s Duskywing
Common Sootywing
  
             
 



 
 
Least Skipper
Northern Broken-Dash
Little Glassywing
Sachem
Crossline Skipper
 
             



Zabulon Skipper

 
 
Swarthy Skipper
Peck's Skipper
Dun Skipper
Broad-winged Skipper