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.

***   2020 Spring Meeting    ***   Save the date!   ***
                  Saturday, May 9th at 5:30 PM

The Spring meeting of the Massachusetts Butterfly Club will be held on Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 5:30pm at the Broad Meadow Brook Massachusetts Audubon Sanctuary at 414 Massasoit Road in Worcester.

Our fantastic potluck supper will start at 5:30pm followed by the following presentation:

Steven Fuller, Ph. D., the Science Delivery Specialist of the US Fish & Wildlife Service based in New Hampshire will speak on identifying and planning for the restoration of species determined to be under threatened conditions, including the Frosted Elfin and Karner Blue. Following Dr. Fuller’s talk several Club members will present their photos and knowledge of the Frosted Elfin in Massachusetts.

Following the main program members may show up to 20 of their photos of butterflies as we have done in the past. If you wish to show photos, please let Steve Moore know at steve@massbutterflies.org

If you have friends who might be interested in this program, feel free to invite them to our meeting which is open to the public.

* * * * Donations to the Massachusetts Butterfly Club * * * *
If you care about our butterflies and the club's efforts to support them, please consider making a donation to our club.
Click on this link to see how you can donate.
You can also find the link under Club Information on the left menu.

Winter 2018 - The Lepidopterists' Society
The Lepidopterists' Society's Winter 2018 newsletter had two articles by Tor Hansen. One article is on an encounter between ant and ceraunus blue, and the other article is on Discovering Promethea. If you are interested, you can download the pdf of the issue here.

October 8, 2019 - Vineyard Gazette (The Vine)
    The Butterfly Effect (by Will Sennott)
Nice article in Martha's Vineyard "The Vine" featuring butterflies and Matt Pelikan.

      *****  Butterflying Code of Ethics  *****
The Massachusetts Butterfly Club has adopted a Butterflying Code of Ethics. You can find the document under Club Information on the left menu.

      *****  2019 Hessel's Hairstreak Search Project  *****
Butterfly seekers are needed for the 2019 Hessel's Hairstreak Search Project, a joint venture between The Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program (NHESP) of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife and the Massachusetts Butterfly Club (MBC). This is a volunteer project and you can commit as much time as you can to it. Even a ½ hour hike at a site would be really helpful. The time frame is from mid-May to the end of June.

Please email Danielle Desmarais at Dldesmar@hotmail.com to be added to the email list for all the communication and documents that explain the search in detail.

                      * * * * Club Merchandise * * * *
We still have a few official Massachusetts Butterfly Club HATS and T-SHIRTS available for purchase. They are on sale for $20 each.

             ****** Massachusetts State Butterfy ******
For the latest news and status, please check out the Massachusetts State Butterfly Facebook page

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 list server. Butterfly watchers from around the state send messages listing the butterflies they see, describing butterfly behavior, posing questions, and answering them. Joining the list server is a great way to find out what's flying and to get to know others who share your interests!

If you have problems with subscribing or unsubscribing to the MassLep list server, send an email to the list server monitor.

    *****  Report your sightings to our Records Compiler   *****

If you do not report your sightings on MassLep or Facebook and would like to report your sightings to our records compiler directly, you can download the spreadsheet below and email to Mark Fairbrother at mark@massbutterflies.org.

            Sightings Report spreadsheet

Note: Please DO NOT use this form if you report your sightings on MassLep or Facebook.

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