List of Butterfly/Bug Identification Website

[Mona Miller]

http://leplog.wordpress.com/washington- ... e-dc-area/
Butterflies Occurring in the DC Area (This website has flight times for most species occurring in our area).

http://www.gardenswithwings.com/identif ... flies.html
This website is a good review for beginners.

http://www.rkwalton.com/skip.html
Someone just alerted me to this online video of identifying skippers, too.

http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/
Butterflies of North America

http://www.rlephoto.com/
Butterflies of the Carolinas and Virginias

http://wisconsinbutterflies.org/butterfly
Wisconsin Butterflies

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-cur ... index.dsml
Caterpillar host plant database, you can put the plant or butterfly in and get what plants it uses. Must use latin names. If it doesn't come up with complete name listed, just take a few letters off the end and keep searching.

http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabambc/co ... risons.asp
MA Butterflies you can do side-by-side comparisons

http://www.ncwings.com/butterflies/butterflies.html
North Carolina Butterflies

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/butterfly/
This is the garden forum, butterflies. People from all over even some foreign locations. You can post pictures for identication, too. I like trying to see if I can identify what people post.

[alletahg]

Two more, which we use for all kinds of bugs, not just butterflies.

http://www.whatsthatbug.com This one is a lot of fun. Not very easy to use just for an ID, but you can submit a photo and hope they post it or reply. They've posted a couple of our photos, including a couple I took last year of a monarch caterpillar forming its chrysalis.

http://www.bugguide.net If you can't find an ID for the butterfly or other insect you have, you can submit a photo in the ID section and other users will respond.

There are also insect ID groups on flickr.

[Mona Miller]

Wow! I didn't see your post. This is great. I knew about the two you mentioned, but not about Flickr.

I just searched on "insect identification":
http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q= ... tification

Pages of groups. I wish I had more time.