Chrysalis of the Black Swallowtail, supported by two strands of silk called a silk girdle (‘brown’ form of chrysalis shown here; there is also a ‘green’ form which is green)
Eastern Black Swallowtail Butterfly — Papilio polyxenes (Etna, ME; 6/19/2019)
Blinded Sphinx (Paonias excaecata) (Mercer, ME; 7/28/2025) (Photo courtesy of R. Beaulier)
Browntail Moths; note the brown ‘tail’ at the end of the abdomen (Kennebec County, Maine, 7/1/2021)
Browntail Moth (Etna, ME; 6/28/2021)
Bruce Spanworm (Operophtera bruceata) (beneath a porch light) (Etna, ME; 11/5/2024)
Bruce Spanworm (Operophtera bruceata) (Etna, ME; 11/5/2024)
Cabbage White (Pieris rapae) (male) (adult stage of the Imported Cabbageworm)
Cabbage White (Pieris rapae) (male) (central Maine; emerged indoors and photographed on 1/5/2023) (staff photo)
Canadian Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio canadensis) (Saco, ME; 7/6/2025) (Photo courtesy of Taylor Leonardi)
Canadian Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio canadensis) (Saco, ME; 7/6/2025) (Photo courtesy of Taylor Leonardi)
Cecropia Moth
Cecropia Moth (Hyalophora cecropia)
Chain-dotted/Chainspotted Geometer Moth (Cingilia catenaria) (Grand Lake Stream, ME; 10/2/2022) (Photo courtesy of Downeast Lakes Land Trust)
Common Ringlet (Coenonympha tullia) (Etna, Maine; 6/18/2008)
Common Ringlet (Coenonympha tullia) (Etna, Maine; 6/18/2008)
Corn Earworm
Curve-toothed Geometer (Eutrapela clemataria) (highly resembles a dead leaf) (Stetson, ME; 5/17/2021)
Curve-toothed Geometer (Eutrapela clemataria) (Stetson, ME; 5/17/2021) (larvae feed on the leaves of ash, basswood, birch, elm, fir, maple, poplar, willow, and other trees)
Curve-toothed Geometer (Eutrapela clemataria) resting on a lamp shade (Stetson, ME; 5/14/2021)
Diamondback Moth
Eastern Hemlock Looper (Lambdina fiscellaria) (resting by a porch light in Stetson, Maine; 9/15/2019)
Eastern Hemlock Looper (Lambdina fiscellaria) (Farmington, Maine; 9/8/2020) (Photo courtesy of Hannah A.)
Eastern Panthea (Panthea furcilla) (Mercer, ME; 7/28/2025) (Photo courtesy of R. Beaulier)
Eastern Pine Elfin (Callophrys niphon) (Orono, ME; 5/9/2022) (Photo credit: courtesy of Edward S. Grew)
Eastern Tailed-Blue Butterfly (Cupido comyntas) (Hollis, ME; 7/12/2025) (Photo courtesy of Dave Thompson)
Monarch Butterfly feeding on a red clover blossom; 8/20/2018. Turner, Maine.
A Monarch chrysalis a few days away from butterfly emergence (8/29/2006)
A Monarch chrysalis in an advanced stage (final minutes before adult emergence)
A Monarch butterfly newly-emerged (Their wings are small at first but within a matter of minutes they slowly expand to full size as fluid from the body is pumped into the wings)
