Same here in Southern Wisconsin. Seeing and raising more Black Swallowtails and Monarchs, more of the former. I even saw an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail yesterday for the first time this season...
Average amount of American ladies this year.
I've seen more Fritillaries and Cabbage Whites than ever before.
Very few Skippers this season.

Hello neighbor ! I was thinking the same thing. Butterflies season is finally here. I was at Roper Mtn today and saw lots of wonderful things. I have even seen a giant ( not common around here ). saw pipevine. black swallowtail, eastern tiger, spotted purple, variegated frits, buckeye, painted ladies and a monarch ! Hopefully this will continue.
I took my camera and got great success

Awesome news!! I just released five Eastern Black Swallowtails and have some Monarchs on tap for release on Sunday.

I now have three more newly hatched Monarch cats:) Here we go again...

I am just now beginning to see some butterflies, too. I have had a LOT of silver-spotted skippers, and I have just now started seeing a Black Swallowtail or two, and today I saw two butterflies that I had never seen before: I saw my first Giant Swallowtail, and she was laying eggs on my citrus trees! Moments like that are why we love this hobby! Also: I saw a medium-sized black butterfly with a white ridge at the bottom of its wings. Can anyone tell my what that was? It was on the lantana. Oh, and I have had several Black Swallowtail cats on my fennel. One even made it to being a chrysalis, and this afternoon when I checked on it, it had disappeared. Could a bird have pecked it down? ??? Thanks..

Mourning cloak? But I'm just a beginner, so don't take what I say too seriously. And thinking positive, maybe the butterfly eclosed...

After seeing practically no butterflies for weeks, I'm seeing a lot more, mostly swallowtails. I hope one of them finds the parsley, although I worry that I don't have enough right now.