eButterfly

Discover, record, and share your butterfly sightings for science and conservation. eButterfly is an ever-growing global online database of butterfly records from thousands of butterfly eButterfly (new description 5/2/24)

Discover, record, and share your butterfly sightings for science and conservation. eButterfly is an ever-growing global online database of butterfly records from thousands of butterfly watchers around the world like you. This free resource allows you to easily keep track of the butterflies you see, while making your observations openly available for science, education, and conservation. 

eButterfly Mobile is the only mobile app that allows you to collect your sightings and store them in your eButterfly web account. Create an account to share your butterfly observations.

eButterfly is free for anyone to use, thanks to the generous support of sponsoring non-profit organizations and individuals. 

Features

1. Snap a photo of any butterfly you encounter, and our advanced computer vision AI will help you identify it.

2. Contribute to scientific research by using our checklist survey and count methods that provide vital information for conservation action.

3. Add butterfly observations from anywhere around the world. Keep track of your life list of all the butterflies and places you've seen and access it via our web platform.

4. Use eButterfly Mobile while butterflying for incremental list keeping, counting, and aiding with identification.

5. Hundreds of thousands of observations created and identified by the eButterfly community are shared with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) where they are used to advance scientific understanding of biodiversity through open data and open science.

6. eButterfly is available in English, French, and Spanish, with other translations planned soon.