http://www.austinbutterflies.org/ 2012-05-18T06:31:30-05:00 http://www.austinbutterflies.org/ http://www.austinbutterflies.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://www.austinbutterflies.org/counts/2005-06-25 On Saturday, June 25, 13 members and friends of the Austin Butterfly Forum met in the parking lot of the Zilker Butterfly Garden for our annual attempt to count all the butterflies in a 15 mile diameter circle while avoiding heat stroke. The circle is centered on Mt. Bonnell and includes almost all of the hot spots in the city. text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://www.austinbutterflies.org/counts/2007-06-30 The Austin 4th of July butterfly count had an all-time record number of species (63), all-time numbers of observers (25), and all-time high individual adult butterflies count (820). We were lucky to have a day without rain, which has been rare lately in Austin. We've already had a year's worth of rain in the first 6 months, and the lush vegatation showed it. text/html 2010-02-20T13:21:30-05:00 http://www.austinbutterflies.org/counts/2008-06-28 Dan Hardy I put off writing this summary as long as I could. The drought and heat were oppressive. We found only 29 species. This contrasted with our best-ever 63 species in 2007, but that was a summer of constant rain and lush vegetation. This year’s total individuals were only a tenth of last year.