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 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!

Check out the schedule of 2009 Field Trips and Fourth of July Butterfly Counts!

Erik Nielsen has compiled fourteen years of Massachusetts butterfly observations into a handsome Massachusetts butterfly flight dates chart. Have a look!

The latest in Dick Walton's series of online butterfly movies, 'Skippers of the Northeast', is available from our Butterfly Photos & Info page.

Check out our new Butterfly Conservation page with tips, guidelines, and resources!

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 Spring 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!

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

If you wish to receive periodic e-mail messages about butterflies in Massachusetts, 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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