Bonus butterfly posts of some of my favorite sightings after a great year of seeing butterflies. #5 of 6. I included this moth in this series because this is not just any ordinary moth. I imagine most people respond how I did the first time I saw the White-lined Sphinx moth (Hyles lineata). While walking along a trail at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, the immense size of the moth, its extremely long proboscis, and incredibly fast wingspeed immediately caught my attention. They have been wrongly called hummingbird moths due to their size and how they hover at flowers but they are amazing creatures to observe meandering through the world of butterflies.

Bonus butterfly posts of some of my favorite sightings after a great year of seeing butterflies. #2 of 6. Capturing a butterfly in flight is so often a goal. The flight of this Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris rapae) through what appears to be a lavendar forest in Bend, Oregon and the deep contrasts made this one of my year end favorites.

A fritillary butterfly forages in a field in the Ochoco Mountains of Central Oregon. Around 100 species of this butterfly are found worldwide with around 30 in the US.