http://www.austinbutterflies.org/ 2008-07-23T16:04:35-05:00 http://www.austinbutterflies.org/ http://www.austinbutterflies.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-07-23T08:48:01-05:00 Roxie Rochat http://www.austinbutterflies.org/playground/playground Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) Queen Southern DogfaceMallow Scrub-Hairstreak Southern Dogface (Zerene cesonia): Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens), False Indigo (Amorpha fruticosa), Soy Bean (Glycine max), Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), Black Dalea (Dalea frutescens), Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea purpurea), and clover (Trifolium sp.). Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon istapa): Alkali Sida (Malvella leprosa var. hederacea), and in our area, probably members of Indian Mallow (Abutilon spp.), and Ro… text/html 2008-07-22T15:48:20-05:00 Roxie Rochat http://www.austinbutterflies.org/butterflyphotos Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) text/html 2008-07-19T17:19:27-05:00 Roxie Rochat http://www.austinbutterflies.org/counts Austin Butterfly Forum holds a yearly “4th of July” butterfly count at the end of June and we submit the results to NABA for inclusion in their yearly survey. "Our 2008 count will be Saturday June 28th. We will start at Zilker Botanical Garden Center at 8:00 a.m. See our Calendar or contact ABF Count Coordinator Dan Hardy (<dhh787@yahoo.com> or 656-5848) for more information. " text/html 2008-07-07T18:34:07-05:00 Roxie Rochat http://www.austinbutterflies.org/calendar The Austin Butterfly Forum meets at the Zilker Botanical Garden Center at 7:00 pm on the 4th Monday of every month except for December. Meetings are free and open to the public. (The building will be open even if there is a “Closed” sign on the door. Please come on in.) text/html 2008-07-07T18:33:44-05:00 Roxie Rochat http://www.austinbutterflies.org/past-events The Calendar page contains our current event listings, but here's what happened earlier this year: January '08 "Mon Jan 28 - Club Meeting: The 2007 El Cielo Butterfly Festival trip. Presentation by Dan Hardy and other club members. Zilker Botanical Garden Center, 7:00pm. Eight club members went on this trip and will share stories and photographs." text/html 2008-07-07T18:14:48-05:00 Roxie Rochat http://www.austinbutterflies.org/checklists Studying a checklist is a great way to learn the names of commonly seen butterflies in your area, as well as an incentive to let others know when you find a rarity. [ABF Travis County Butterfly Checklist] - Austin Butterfly Forum's checklist of the most commonly seen butterflies in our area, annotated with abundance and seasonality codes. text/html 2008-07-06T21:31:33-05:00 Mike Quinn http://www.austinbutterflies.org/guides Butterfly, Plant and Gardening Guides The following guides are appropriate for the Austin area. Butterfly Guides Butterflies Through Binoculars, The West. Jeffrey Glassberg. 2001. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 384 pp. Focus Guide to Butterflies of North America. Jim P. Brock & Kenn Kaufman. 2003. 2006. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. 392 pp. text/html 2008-07-06T17:30:35-05:00 Mike Quinn http://www.austinbutterflies.org/newsletters Below are copies of the Austin Butterfly Forum's past newsletters, Heard It through the Pipevine. The newsletter is published quarterly and is sent to all dues-paying club members. We very much appreciate general submissions on any butterfly (or insect) topic of your choice. Please send your submission, text and/or photos to Mike Quinn. My email address is at the bottom. Thanks. text/html 2008-07-06T17:21:57-05:00 Mike Quinn http://www.austinbutterflies.org/sidebar Home Membership Calendar Checklists Counts Gardening Guides Hot Spots Listserves Newsletters Nurseries Past Events Offsite Links text/html 2008-07-06T17:20:44-05:00 Mike Quinn http://www.austinbutterflies.org/publications Here are the Austin Butterfly Forum's publications. Our primary publication is our newsletter, Heard It through the Pipevine. The newsletter is usually bimonthly, but the frequency varies with the number of member submissions we receive. We send all due-paying club members a copy of the newsletter by mail. text/html 2008-07-06T14:25:36-05:00 Roxie Rochat http://www.austinbutterflies.org/gardening A growing pastime in America, with conservation benefits, is the practice of developing your garden and landscape in a way that will be beneficial to wildlife. In Texas we call this practice wildscaping, and for the butterfly enthusiast it offers the opportunity to bring color and diversity to your home and yard.