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.

Mark your calendar! Wednesday, February 24 7 PM
Flowers that Fly: Habitat Gardening for Butterflies and Hummingbirds in New England

The talk will describe how to create and maintain small habitats for some common and not-so-common butterflies in our area, and what to plant for hummingbirds. Handouts will be provided. This talk is jointly sponsored by the Friends of Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge.

Sharon Stichter is a longtime member of the Massachusetts Butterfly Club, Editor of the club's journal, Massachusetts Butterflies, and of the MBC Guide to Good Butterfly Sites. In the summer she maintains a large butterfly and hummingbird garden in Newbury, Massachusetts.

This meeting will be held at 7 pm at the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters, 73 Weir Hill Road in Sudbury (Google Map). Each Friends meeting starts with a brief discussion of the Refuge status, followed by the featured presentation.

Sharon's handouts:
Gardening for Butterflies in New England (pdf)
Attracting Hummingbirds to New England Gardens (pdf)

Mark your calendar! April 17, 2010 5pm
Spring Meeting, Potluck Dinner, Slide Show & Speaker!
Broad Meadow Brook Sanctuary, Worcester
Club members will have an opportunity to show up to 10 slides or digital photos that represent highlights from the field in 2009.

The distinguished speaker of the evening will be Rick Cech talking about butterflying in Peru and giving an introduction to neotropical butterflies. (Rick Cech Bio)

Look for our 2010 schedule of field trips in late February.

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 our records and for creating the checklist!

Back issues of our bi-annual journal, Massachusetts Butterflies, are now available for you to download from our new back issues webpage! (Note that in the future, after this announcement disappears, the new page will always be accessible from the Club Publications page.)

The Fall 2009 issue of our club's journal, Massachusetts Butterflies, is now available, and each member will soon receive his or her copy. Copies are available to non-members for $6. View the cover and table of contents on our Club Publications page!

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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