Thanks for visiting the Virginia butterflies section.
The picture at the top of the page shows the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, the official state butterfly of Virginia. While the state hosts a variety of butterfly species, twenty one of those species are considered rare and seen in only one or two counties.
This introduction to Virginia butterflies divides the species according to families, which also mostly divides them according to wing color.
Whites and Yellow Butterflies
Great Southern White
Cabbage White Butterfly
Dainty Sulfur
Sleepy Orange butterfly
Cloudless Sulphur
Tailed Orange
Hairstreak Butterflies
White-M Hairstreak
Banded Hairstreak
Edwards’ Hairstreak
King’s Hairstreak
Oak Hairstreak
Striped Hairstreak
Coral Hairstreak
Brush-footed Butterflies
White Peacock
Pearl Crescent
Phaon Crescent
The Common Buckeye
The Mourning Cloak
Goatweed Leafwing
Eastern Comma
Side view Eastern Comma
Question Mark
Gulf Fritillary
Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar
Queen butterfly
Soldier butterfly
Queen caterpillar
Four different butterflies in the Vanessa genus visit gardens across the United States. Three of them go by the common name, lady. This is the American Lady
Side American Lady
Painted Lady butterfly
Painted Lady caterpillar.
Painted Lady side
Red-spotted Purple Admiral
Viceroy butterfly
Common Wood Nymph
Carolina Satyr
Northern Pearly Eye
Southern Pearly Eye
Gemmed Satyr
Skipper Butterflies
Whirabout
Firey Skipper
Southern Skipperling