compton tortoise shell

  a new to me butterfly.

According to inaturalist there have been a few sightings in the Whitehorse area this spring.

It has been a butterfly abundant spring, a spring that started early march and has not turned into summer yet.

This one on a little  aspen lined path toward the Takhini river.

May 11 2024

Fritillary

 a Boloria
June 19, 2015
winter mountain ( Ibex valley)

Jutta Arctic

Oeneis jutta
June 15, 2015
Moose skull lake

June 14, 2017, on the driveway

a male, according to Crispin Guppy

I think this butterfly is biennial , meaning it's cycle is two years, next year i suppose it will be a caterpillar, and in 2019 we hope to see it as a butterfly again.

Anicia Checkerspot

May 29, 2015
Mendenhall meadows
Euphydryas anicia

Arctic

possibly a Chrycus Arctic

Oeneis chryxus

 first two photos two Arctics in the yard.

Later that day a different Arctic in the forest. is it just a different Chrycus Arctic or is it a Jutta Arctic

May 29, 2015

Mourning Cloak

 Mourning Cloak

Nymphalis antiopa

On the road here, April 20, 2015

2 Mourning cloaks mating, they did so for a long time, i watched them for an hour, i left before they did, most of the time they were standing totally still, by the way they braced their feet you could see they were alive. At one pointed the left one moved his/her foot and a few second later moved her/his wings slightly another few seconds it opened it's wings and left them open for a few minutes. 

I have looked out for the first Mourning Cloak of the season for a long time.

1998 - April 16

1999 - April 16

2000 - April 21

2005 - April 22

2009 - April 25

2010 - April 16

2011 - April 23

2015 - April 20

2022 - April 28

2023 -April 22 

Comma

A gray or hoary comma, maybe
Sept 13, 2014
Arch mnt.
And another one here in the yard on September 15, 2014

mormon fritillary

Speyeria mormonia
Mount Decoeli
July 11, 2014

Fritillary

a Fritillary
High up in the mountains above Kluane Lake
May 17 2014
I think it is the Freija Fritillary ( Boloria freija)

Taiga Alpine

I think a Taiga Alpine
June 15 2014
Mendenhall subd.

and on June 1 , 2015 one in flight, a very dark butterfly with an orange flash

June 2, 2015

Eribia mancinus

Taiga Alpine, June 14, 2017 ID by Crispin Guppy

a Field Crescent

June 15 2014, Mendenhall subd.

i think it is a female Field Crescent

Phyciodes pratensis

(Phyciodes pulchella)

feeds on a variety of Asters

flies from late May into August

Arctic Fritillary

Boloria chariclea
June 16 2014
in an open mossy wet forest where the orchids grow. In Mendenhall subdicvision.

White Admiral

going through old data

I don't know when this picture was taken but in

1998 i saw it first on June 29

in 1999 on July 5

in 2006 on July 18
in 2014 on July 13
2017 on July17

Limenitis  arthemis