Identify Butterflies and other Insects in North Central Florida

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (male) is a large Florida butterfly, black body, and yellow and black wings without blue spots

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (female) is a large Florida butterfly with yellow and black striped wings and more blue on the wings than the male

Palamedes Swallowtail butterfly, dark brown or black wings with orange, blue, and white spots

Gulf Fritallary – Agraulis vanillae with orange body, and orange wings with black stripes and spots and white spots on underwings

Eastern Black Swallowtail – a butterfly with darks wings, black and blue with white spots on edge of wings

Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae has yellow wings with brown specks and appears abundantly in autumn

Zebra Longwing Butterfly – large black and yellow striped butterfly with light yellow spots on its wings and body

Buckeye Butterfly is mostly brown but stands out due to its orange and blue faux eyes on the wings

Monarch Butterfly – large orange and black butterfly with white spots on the wings with dark edges in Florida

Florida Duskywing Ephyriades brunnea is a tiny brown butterfly with white and black spots on its wings and body in Central Florida

Pearl Crescent – tiny butterfly, only the size of a quarter with orange and black wings and a gray edge  in North Florida

Pipevine Swallowtail is a dark butterfly with gray or black forewings and darky dusky blue hindwings with white spots

White Peacock Anartia-jatrophae is a small, dusty white butterfly with orange fringe appearing in autumn

Zebra Swallowtail – Protographium marcellus is a black and white striped butterfly with some red dashes on the underwings

Long-Tailed Skipper – Urbanus proteus is a small, brown or gray winged butterfly with a blue and green tinted body and a long tail

Blue Dasher Dragonfly – blue dragonfly in Florida with long wings, and its face or head may be bright green

Needham’s Skimmer Dragonfly near water in Florida is a dragonfly with orange wings, orange abdomen, and a brown thorax

Halloween Pennant dragonfly has gold and black patchwork pattern on wings and a black and gold body

Eastern Pondhawk is a green dragonfly on the head and thorax a black and white striped abdomen

Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly (female) has a dark blue body and midnight blue or black wings with a white spot at the tip

Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly (male) has a dark blue body and midnight blue or black wings but no white spot as the female has

Carolina Saddlebags – Tramea carolina – brown with yellow or orange dragonfly having dark, patterned patches on hind wings

Zipper Orb Weaver – a black and white spider in Florida with long legs and a web that looks like a zipper

Arrowhead Orb Weaver is a tiny brown spider with a yellow triangle on its abdomen, shaped like an arrowhead

Golden Silk Orb Weaver spider (top male vs female bottom) has a patterned, gold-yellow abdomen and long, spindly legs in Florida

Spiny Orb Weaver spider has a white and black or yellow and black body with red spiny points around its abdomen

Florida Scrub Millipede is a fat, shiny brown slow-moving millipede about 4-6 inches long with black antennae

Elephant Beetle or ox beetle is a black, lumbering beetle with three horns, two short horns and a long middle horn

Wheel Bug is a large, gray assassin bug with a spiny wheel on its back. This one landed on me, but do not handle – they serve a strong bite!

Eyed Click Beetle is a black beetle with two white circles on its head that look like eyes found on forest floors in Florida

Red Io Moth has wings brown to reddish in hue, with a fuzzy head and an eyespot is visible on each hindwing when open

Speckled Renia Moth Renia adspergillus is a triangular, brown or gray small moth with specks that resides from Quebec to Florida