Massachusetts Butterfly Club

The Massachusetts Butterfly Club sponsors state-wide butterfly activities to promote education, conservation, interpretation, and fun! We invite people of all ages and levels of expertise to attend our meetings, programs, field trips, and butterfly counts and to become members of our club.

This Old House visits the butterfly garden at Broad Meadow Brook. Click the link "In The News" on the left side of this page to access this video.

The 2011 Fall meeting of the MBC has been rescheduled for Saturday, January 28 at 5:00 P.M.. It will be held at the Broad Meadow Brook Sanctuary on Massasoit Road in Worcester. A pot luck dinner will begin at 5:15 P.M..

Following the dinner, we will be auctioning nine plates from Samuel Scudder's 1889 book on Butterflies of Eastern United States and Canada. These are very rare and attractive plates that have been donated to the Club for auction. All of the proceeds of the auction will go to the Club to help finance its continuing activities. For more information and to see two of the prints to be auctioned, please click here.

The Club has purchased very attractive T-shirts for sale to members and others interested in promoting the Club and acquiring a great T-shirt. Many thanks go to Tom Gagnon who has headed up this project. The T-shirts will be available at the meeting for purchase for $20 each.

We will then have a short presentation featuring Hawaiian butterflies by Steve Moore.

Our featured speaker will be Dr. Sean Mullen, Professor of Biology with the Ecology, Behavior and Evolution group at Boston University's Department of Biology. He has written significant articles on the Red-spotted Admiral complex which receives much attention on MassLep given Massachusetts location between the White Admiral and Red-spotted Purple forms. He will be speaking on the results of his studies of this complex. For those interested in preparing for his talk, see the article on the Red-spotted Admiral complex.

Please save the date and plan to attend this important meeting!!

The Fall 2011 issue of Massachusetts Butterflies is now available. View the cover and table of contents on our Club Publications page! Back issues are available for you to download from our back issues webpage!

The 4th Annual Barbara J. Walker Festival was held on August 13th. To see photos and more on the Festival, click here.

Announcing The Butterflies of Massachusetts by Sharon Stichter

We are delighted to announce the launching of Sharon Stichter's new website The Butterflies of Massachusetts, now available at www.butterfliesofmassachusetts.net!! This wonderful resource presents new information on the abundance and distribution of Massachusetts butterflies based directly on Massachusetts Butterfly Club sighting data. It also contains a wealth of historical background on each species, as well as conservation and management information!

Links to each species account on this new website will be available from our species photograph pages.

Announcing The Caterpillars of Massachusetts 2009 by Sam Jaffe

After a fantastic 2009 season spent seeking out and photographing many of our more spectacular caterpillars, Sam has combined his notes on Massachusetts' caterpillar life histories into a single document. Now, with the help of the Massachusetts Butterfly Club, these notes are available online, as a pdf, with accompanying thumbnail links to Sam's relevant photographs.

These notes should not be mistaken for an exhaustive resource, but the information provided regarding caterpillar location, hostplant, season, and behavior might be especially relevant to all Massachusetts butterfly and moth enthusiasts.

The long-awaited update to the Checklist of Massachusetts Butterflies is here! See the description on the club publications page to view a sample page and learn how to order yours today!

Many thanks to Erik Nielsen for compiling the records and for creating the checklist and to Mark Fairbrother for maintaining our records!

We are delighted to announce the publication of The Massachusetts Butterfly Club GUIDE TO GOOD BUTTERFLY SITES From the Berkshires to the Cape and Islands, this GUIDE will lead you through twenty-six of the best butterfly-finding sites in the state. Written by well-known Massachusetts Butterfly Club field experts, this 142-page coil-bound book describes each site in detail, with original trail maps, sighting lists, directions, and hot tips! Order yours today!

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If you wish to receive periodic e-mail messages about butterflies in Massachusetts and to report your own butterfly sightings, consider joining the MassLep listserver. Butterfly watchers from around the state send messages listing the butterflies they see, describing butterfly behavior, posing questions, and answering them. Joining the listserver is a great way to find out what's flying and to get to know others who share your interests!

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