Memberships are payable NOW. Please send $20 to Doris Hill or pay at the next meeting.
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:
Mon May 25 - Club Meeting: Dung Beetles: Nature’s Ultimate Recyclers. Peg Wallace will present information on dung beetle evolution, life cycles and ecology. She will also talk about her research on dung beetles in the Austin area, and give information on how to find and recognize dung beetles.
Zilker Botanical Garden Center, 7:00pm.
Mon June 22 - Club Meeting: Tips for Identifying Butterflies Dan Hardy. Do you want to learn how to identify those pesky small brown skippers and look-alike sulphurs? Dan will show side-by-side photos comparisons of the common and uncommon butterflies of Austin. This is the traditional warm-up program for the upcoming butterfly count.
Zilker Botanical Garden Center, 7:00pm.
Sat June 27 - Annual Austin Butterfly Count. Meet 8 am in the Zilker Botanical Garden parking lot. See calendar for more information.
