Botany Garden Insects

Butterflies and Dragonflies

Here is a list and some photos of the butterflies and dragonflies that have been seen in or over the Botany Garden on the south side of Birge Hall on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. Contact Edgar Spalding (spalding@wisc.edu) if you have comments or a sighting to add.

Butterflies  

Dragonflies      

Black Swallowtail

Common Green Darner

Giant Swallowtail Prince Baskettail
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Common/Beaverpond Baskettail
Pipevine Swallowtail Eastern Amberwing
Checkered White Blue Dasher
Cabbage White Eastern Pondhawk
Clouded Sulphur Widow Skimmer
Orange Sulphur Common Whitetail
Banded Hairstreak Twelve-spotted Skimmer
Hickory Hairstreak Four-spotted Skimmer
Gray Hairstreak Halloween Pennant
Eastern Tailed-Blue Red Saddlebags
Summer Azure Black Saddlebags
Variegated Fritillary Wandering Glider
Meadow Fritillary Spot-winged Glider
Great Spangled Fritillary White-faced Meadowhawk
Pearl Crescent Cherry-faced(?) Meadowhawk
Question Mark Band-winged Meadowhawk
Mourning Cloak Yellow-legged Meadowhawk
Milbert's Tortoiseshell Dot-tailed Whiteface
Red Admiral  
American Lady  
Painted Lady  
Common Buckeye  
Hackberry Emperor  
Tawny Emperor  
Monarch  
Silver-spotted Skipper  
Common Checkered-Skipper  
Least Skipper  
Fiery Skipper  
Peck’s Skipper  
Northern Broken Dash