Massachusetts Butterfly Club

                        * * * * 30 Years!!!! * * * *
The Massachusetts Butterfly Club is celebrating our 30th year! To see a brief history of the club and how it began, click here.

      *****  Barbara J. Walker Butterfly Festival  *****
The 15th annual Barbara J. Walker Butterfly Festival  will be held Saturday, August 13th from Noon to 4pm, at Mass Audubon Broad Meadow Brook with lots of fun for all ages!
Click here to see more information on the event.

                  *****  New Field Trips  *****
Three field trips have been added to the schedule.
Thursday, August 11th, 9 am – 1 pm,
      North Common Meadow, Petersham
Sunday, August 14th, 8 am – Noon,
      Muddy Brook WMA, Hardwick
Sunday, August 21st, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm,
      Barre Falls Dam, Hubbardston
For more information, please download the latest field trip list.
Contact the leader, Wendy Howes, at curiousbooks@verizon.net
or (413) 967-4737 .

MBC member Andrew Griffith writes a post on butterflies for the Wareham Week Today website. If you’d like to see his posts, you can click on wareham.theweektoday.com. On that webpage you can see a list of recent posts on the right side of the page.

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.

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.
Another way you can help is to use Amazon Smile for your Amazon purchases and name our club as the charity. See below for information on how to do that.

                  *****  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.

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 questions about MassLep or its operations, send an email to moderator Mark Faherty, msfaherty@yahoo.com. MassLep is independently operated in coordination with the Massachusetts Butterfly Club.

    *****  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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