swallowtail

Papilio canadensis

On June 6 2014, Canadian Tiger Swallowtails sipping mud
at the creek coming out of Jo-jo lake

June 10 2014

in my garden

Milbert's Tortoiseshell

Stone Mountain Park, near Summit Lake
above the treeline
August 14, 2014

Greenish Blue

Plebejus  saepiolus amica

June 10 2014

silvery blue

Glaucopsyche lygdamus couperi

May 31 2014

May 22 2017

in the yard, a bright blue butterfly in flight.

grey comma

June 16 2014

sept 4, 2016, Kusawa desert

Clouded Sulpher

Colias philodice
June 16 2014
in the yard
feeds on vetches (astragalus)

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