| Butterfly Count Results for Olmsted County (Rochester) in Minnesota | ||||||||||||||||||
| Note: click on species names to see photographs and other information on the species | Butterflies & Moths.org | |||||||||||||||||
| # of years | Year | |||||||||||||||||
| Butterfly Species | Low | Avg | High | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | |
| Black Swallowtail | 1 | 12.3 | 28 | 11 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 21 | 28 | 23 | 3 | 12 | 24 | 1 | 13 | |||
| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | 1 | 3.7 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | |||
| Giant Swallowtail | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Checkered White | 1 | 0.6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Cabbage White | 4 | 61.5 | 152 | 13 | 111 | 89 | 4 | 43 | 117 | 35 | 87 | 10 | 12 | 48 | 152 | 34 | 58 | |
| Clouded/Orange Sulphur | 1 | 0.2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Clouded Sulphur | 2 | 47.8 | 192 | 12 | 65 | 150 | 37 | 118 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 192 | ||
| Orange Sulphur | 1 | 90.4 | 329 | 12 | 279 | 329 | 15 | 99 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 74 | 319 | 20 | 8 | ||
| Little Yellow | 4 | 0.3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| American Copper | 1 | 3.8 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| Gray Copper | 1 | 1.4 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Bronze Copper | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Coral Hairstreak | 1 | 3.9 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Banded Hairstreak | 1 | 5.1 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 19 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Hickory Hairstreak | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Edward’s Hairstreak | 2 | 1.7 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Striped Hairstreak | 1 | 0.7 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Acadian Hairstreak | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Gray Hairstreak | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| unidentified hairstreak | 2 | 1.2 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Eastern Tailed Blue | 2 | 49.5 | 223 | 13 | 38 | 16 | 4 | 14 | 223 | 39 | 29 | 15 | 2 | 50 | 60 | 130 | 24 | |
| Spring/Summer Azure | 1 | 23.6 | 80 | 12 | 25 | 37 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 31 | 80 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 72 | 13 | ||
| Summer Azure photo | ||||||||||||||||||
| American Snout | 2 | 0.6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Great Spangled Fritillary | 3 | 25.9 | 91 | 13 | 91 | 21 | 13 | 7 | 29 | 3 | 35 | 14 | 45 | 24 | 23 | 25 | 7 | |
| Aphrodite Fritillary | 1 | 0.2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| unidentified Speyeria fritillary | 2 | 27.8 | 89 | 11 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 39 | 29 | 89 | 53 | 82 | 13 | |||
| Variegated Frittilary | 2 | 0.2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| unidentified small fritillary | 1 | 0.6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Pearl Crescent | 1 | 13.8 | 99 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 27 | 7 | 99 | 3 | |||
| Northern Crescent | 1 | 1.1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Baltimore Checkerspot | 1 | 0.9 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Silvery Checkerspot | 1 | 0.2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| unidentified crescent | 1 | 0.5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Question Mark | 1 | 2.2 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 5 | |||||
| Eastern Comma | 1 | 2.6 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Gray Comma | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| unidentified angelwing | 1 | 0.7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Mourning Cloak | 1 | 2.8 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Milbert’s Tortoiseshell | 2 | 3.9 | 49 | 2 | 49 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| American Lady | 1 | 0.9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Painted Lady | 1 | 2.9 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 26 | |||||||
| Red Admiral | 1 | 23.8 | 145 | 11 | 75 | 8 | 145 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 62 | 4 | 4 | |||
| Common Buckeye | 1 | 3.6 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |||||||
| Red Spotted Purple | 1 | 1.6 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
| Viceroy | 1 | 3.5 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Hackberry Emperor | 1 | 2.8 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Tawny Emperor | 2 | 0.4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Northern Pearly-eye | 3 | 11.4 | 31 | 12 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 6 | ||
| Eyed Brown | 4 | 13.8 | 35 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 35 | 10 | 12 | 20 | |
| Little Wood-Satyr | 1 | 1.9 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||
| Common Ringlet | 3 | 0.2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Common Wood Nymph | 27 | 80.2 | 162 | 13 | 162 | 39 | 61 | 146 | 51 | 81 | 54 | 106 | 77 | 131 | 72 | 36 | 27 | |
| Monarch | 11 | 82.7 | 233 | 13 | 82 | 166 | 28 | 66 | 233 | 115 | 26 | 11 | 64 | 35 | 109 | 65 | 75 | |
| Silver-spotted Skipper | 1 | 3.6 | 20 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 7 | 2 | ||||
| Northern Cloudywing | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wild Indigo Duskywing | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common Sootywing | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| unidentified spreadwing skipper | ||||||||||||||||||
| Least Skipper | ||||||||||||||||||
| European Skipper | 1 | 6.8 | 85 | 5 | 1 | 85 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Sachem | 1 | 0.2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Ottoe Skipper | ||||||||||||||||||
| Peck’s Skipper | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tawny-edged Skipper | 1 | 0.3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Crossline Skipper | ||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Broken-Dash | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Delaware Skipper | 1 | 1.5 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
| Black Dash | 1 | 0.7 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Dun Skipper | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hobomok Skipper | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Dusted Skipper | 1 | 0.8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Common Roadside Skipper | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| unidentified grass skipper | 3 | 15.5 | 112 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 112 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 10 | |
| Low | Avg | High | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | ||
| Grand Total Individuals | 199 | 652 | 1249 | 964 | 1022 | 199 | 737 | 1249 | 458 | 496 | 350 | 374 | 642 | 1022 | 503 | 465 | ||
| Number of Identified Species | 21 | 28.8 | 44 | 27 | 28 | 21 | 39 | 44 | 27 | 31 | 21 | 29 | 27 | 31 | 28 | 21 | ||
| Unidentified species | 1 | 3.2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total Number of Species | 22 | 31.2 | 47 | 30 | 32 | 23 | 41 | 47 | 31 | 33 | 23 | 32 | 30 | 33 | 29 | 22 | ||
| Cumulative Identified Species | 58 | 57 | 56 | 55 | 54 | 48 | 46 | 45 | 45 | 44 | 41 | 33 | 21 | |||||