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.

The Field Trip and 4th of July Count lists are here!
Schedule of 2012 Field Trips and Fourth of July Butterfly Counts!

The Fall 2012 Meeting of the Massachusetts Butterfly Club will be held on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at the Massachusetts Audubon Society Broad Meadow Brook Sanctuary, 414 Massasoit Road in Worcester starting at 5:30pm.

Please check back later for more details.

The Spring 2012 issue of Massachusetts Butterflies is now available. It was mailed on March 15th to all members. If you do not receive it soon, please send email to barb620@theworld.com.
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!

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 Art of Survival", a new year-long photography show at MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics in Cambridge. This is the Center's 5th annual exhibit of photography. It will feature works by Sam Jaffe. The gallery consists of twenty-four large format prints, all aluminum mounted with no glass to get in the way. The native caterpillar, pupa, and moth images work together to demonstrate some of the incredible diversity and beauty of our local insects, while independently each natural history composition acts to tell a unique story about a unique organism.

Browse through the twenty-four photographs, read accompanying natural history essays, and find directions to the gallery at www.spjaffe.com.    It will run through February 2013.

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 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!

Sign up to get e-mail from Massachusetts butterfly enthusiasts!

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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You may read the pre-Sept 2005 archived MassLep e-mail messages here.

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