Austin Butterfly Forum

Austin, Texas, is home to about 170 species of butterflies. It is also the home of the Austin Butterfly Forum, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to butterfly conservation and to enriching people's lives through butterflies.

The Austin Butterfly Forum is a butterfly club that holds field trips, conducts butterfly counts, promotes butterfly gardening, performs conservation activities, and meets monthly for an educational presentation. We are a community of butterfly enthusiasts who also enjoy dragonflies and other bugs.

For more details on our upcoming events, see the calendar page:

Monday, Jan 23: Plant-Insect Interactions: Aggregative Feeding and Chemical Ecology of the Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly. Chris Nice, Ph.D. Texas State University.

Monday, Feb 27: The World of Nature in Central Texas. Steve Schwartzman. 150 artistic photographs, with commentary, showing some of our native plant species, as well as some of the small creatures that live on them. 7 pm Zilker Botanical Garden.