====== 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. Please Join Us! For more details on our upcoming events, see the [[calendar#November'08|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.