First sightings of butterflies for the year.  All in Old Hickory, TN.  I am an amateur butterfly spotter, so the IDs are as accurate as I can make them for now.

July 5, 2018

Zebra Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

July 9

Silver spotted skipper

July 11

Cloudless Sulphur

Cabbage (?)  – very active, hard to photograph and ID

Skipper (of some sort – there are a lot…)

July 18

Gulf Fritilary

July 19

Pipevine Swallowtail

July 24

Hummingbird moth (Snowberry Clearwing) – not a butterfly, but still cool

July 25

Variegated Fritilary

Spicebush swallowtail – probably a male

July 26

Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (first sighting was July 5, but this is a better photograph)

July 31

Horace’s Duskywing Skipper

Dark morph Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

8-1-18

Monarch

8-2-18

Hackberry Emperor

Cloudless sulphur (a better picture)

August 11

Common Buckeye

8/23/18. Grey Hairstreak

8-30-18   Great Spangled Fritilary.   This was huge – nearly as large as an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.

9-29-18   Long-tailed skipper.