Butterfly Brigade: Name That Butterfly Flash Cards

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Teacher Information

The cards on the following pages have been set up so that you can fold back the names and use

them as flash cards.

Directions: 1. Print the cards on the following pages on card stock.

2. Cut the cards apart, but be sure to leave the butterfly’s name with its picture.

3. Fold the names so they are on the back of the pictures and glue or tape them down.

4. Laminate if possible and store each set in a Ziploc bag.

Image Credits: The majority of the butterfly pictures on the cards are from the Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network website at

http://www.bfly.org/ unless noted below.

Other image credits:

Female Clouded Sulfur: http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59762

Dogface Sulfur: http://www.laspilitas.com/butterflylist_files/Dog_face_2.jpg

Zebra Swallowtail: http://www.biology.duke.edu/dnhs/pics/ZebraSwal.jpg

Spicebush Swallowtail (side view): http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabambc/species-data/Papilio-troilus-photo-1.jpg

Spicebush Swallowtail (top view): http://www.carolinanature.com/butterflies/spicebushswt.html

Front View Back View

Tawny Skipper

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Black Swallowtail (female) Black Swallowtail (male)

Giant Swallowtail Eastern Tailed Blue

Spring Azure Silvery Blue

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American Copper American Lady

Clouded Sulfur Acadian Hairstreak

Coral Hairstreak Edwardian Hairstreak

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Red-banded Hairstreak Gray Hairstreak

Painted Lady Buckeye

Great-Spangled Fritillary Regal Fritillary

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Mourning Cloak Eastern Comma

Gray Comma Question Mark

Pearl Crescent Red Admiral

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Red-Spotted Purple Viceroy

Monarch (Male) Hackberry

American Snout Common Wood Nymph

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Eyed-Brown Silver-Spotted Skipper

Little Wood Satyr Northern Pearly Eye

Tawny Skipper Zebra Swallowtail

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Spicebush Swallowtail Pipevine Swallowtail

Spicebush Swallowtail Pipevine Swallowtail

Spicebush Swallowtail Pipevine Swallowtail