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 rescheduled 2011 Fall meeting of the MBC was held on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the Broad Meadow Brook Sanctuary on Massasoit Road in Worcester. To see a write-up and photos, click here.

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 August 13, 2011. 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 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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