Butterflies 101
Whether you spend days, weeks or years on
Kiawah Island, you are sure to encounter our prettiest,
liveliest, most elusive residents – our butterflies. Naturalists
from the Heron Park Nature Center count over 60 varieties
as at least occasional visitors. They grace every habitat on
the Island – grasses, forests, dunes, marshes, flowers and
trees. At some point in every day they are here in some
form – larva, caterpillar, chrysalis, or beautifully winged
adult. If you slow down for just a minute or two on your
rush to the first tee, or your rapid bike ride through the
woods or even your walk to your house from your car with
a bag of groceries, you will find them. We do not propose
that you get to know them all, but we have assembled here
the most