Hocking Hills Butterfly Trail

Monarch Butterfly

The Monarch is a large orange butterfly with black stripes. It has black wing edges with white dots.

Great Spangled Fritillary

This large orange butterfly has a series of black dots and chevrons on the upper surface of the wings.

Orange Sulphur

Sulphur butterflies are medium-sized, yellow or orange, and frequently have a black border around the wing edges.

Silver Spotted Skipper

The medium-sized Silver-spotted Skipper is brown with a large white blotch on the underside of the hindwings

Clouded Sulfer

Sulphur butterflies are medium-sized, yellow or orange, and frequently have a black border around the wing edges.

Red Admiral

The Red Admiral is a dark medium-sized butterfly with an orange-red horseshoe design on the upper surface of all four of the wings.

Pipevine Swallowtail

The large Pipevine Swallowtail is sexually dimorphic, meaning males and females look different.

Viceroy

The Viceroy closely resembles the Monarch, but Viceroys have a black arch across each hindwing,

Red-Spotted Purple

The large Red-Spotted Purple has dark upper forewings with faint red spots near the tips.

Pearl Crescent

The Pearl Crescent is a small orange butterfly with bold dark lines.

Hackberry Emperor

The medium-sized Hackberry Emperor is chocolate brown on the upper surface with blue eye spots along the wing borders.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

This large dark swallowtail has sky blue hindwings with pale blue spots along the wing margins.