Attract Butterflies to your Yard

• Butterflies in your Backyard

Tiger Swallowtail
image by John Gerwin

Identify Butterflies

• Butterfly Atlas of North Carolina – Harry LeGrand and Tom Howard. Updated info on life histories, maps/distribution, with some photos. Search by common or scientific name.
• NC Wings – Ted and Linda Wilcox Images, distribution, abundance and flight period in North Carolina.
• North Carolina Butterflies – Jeff Pippen, former Duke instructor for natural history classes; hundreds of photos of the 174 species of butterflies found in North Carolina  Also has site on Butterflies of North America.
• Notes on the Butterflies of North Carolina Data Explorer. Search Database by common name, scientific name, county

Get Connected

• Carolina Butterfly Society
• Carolina Leps, Subscribe, Archives