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!

March 26 meeting: Butterflies of Ecuador and artist Nan Wilson. See below.

Butterfly workshop, May 5 - see Calendar.

An Ecuadorian Metalmark.

A tropical satyr.

Monday, Mar 26: Butterflying at Birding Lodges of Ecuador. Ron Martin. Ron's plan is to show how easy it is to find butterflies in Ecuador by going to the lodges known for birding. Zilker Botanical Garden. 7 pm.

Artist and long-time friend, Nan Wilson, will be at our March 26 meeting. Check her imaginative paintings of butterfly life cycles at: Thistledown Studio. Her prints will be for sale.

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