http://austinbutterflies.org/ 2010-09-07T00:23:44-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/ http://austinbutterflies.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/butterfly-gardening Butterflies in Bloom - Beautiful site with information for butterfly gardeners. Central Texas Caterpillar Food Plants - (pdf) Central Texas Nectar Plants - (pdf) Image Archive of Central Texas Plants - digital images of central Texas plants, administered by Katie Hansen, our March 2008 speaker text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/butterflyid This is a visual guide to some of the most commonly seen butterflies in the Austin area and their caterpillar hostplants. Swallowtails: Subfamily Papilioninae <idtable> Papilio glaucus - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Catalpa Common - catalpa Lindera benzoin - Spicebush Persea borbonia - Redbay Sassafras albidum - Sassafrass Fraxinus pennsylvanica - Red ash Crataegus - Hawthorne Ptelea trifoliata - Wafer ash Zanthoxylum hirsutum - Prickly ash Salix nigra - Black Willow Populus deltoides - Easte… text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/butterflyphotos A page of photos without using tables; some sizes are constrained; some are not. text/html 2010-08-30T00:29:29-05:00 http://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 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://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 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://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. Here are links to the results of previous ABF butterfly counts: * June 28, 2008 - NABA "4th of July" Count * June 30, 2007 - NABA "4th of July" Count * June 25, 2005 - NABA "4th of July" Count text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/etsw-ttsw Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Two-tailed Swallowtail Papilio glaucus Papilio multicaudatus Host Plant: many, esp. Ashes, FraxinusWafer Ash - Ptelea trifoliataWidespread Mainly Hill country canyonsOne tail Two tailsWider black bands in cell Thinner black bands in cell Underside: outer margin separated yellow spots Underside: wide continuous yellow band Black and yellow femalesOnly yellow females All males are yellow All males are yellowBelow hindwing: smaller yel… text/html 2008-11-17T17:24:24-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/footer President: <a href=“mailto:entomike@gmail.com”>Mike Quinn</a> (entomike@gmail.com)<br/> Webmaster: <a href=“mailto:Joe.Lapp@pobox.com”>Joe Lapp</a> (Joe.Lapp@pobox.com) text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://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. text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://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 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/help This is an installation of the wiki Dokuwiki, whose site you may visit for more information. A wiki is a web site that allows you to edit its web pages directly through your browser. In this particular installation, only logged in users may edit web pages. In fact, the site only looks like a wiki to people who are logged in. text/html 2010-08-30T00:31:53-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/home 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 e… text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/hot-spots Here is a collection of good places to find butterflies in and around Austin. We'd like to accompany each place with a description that's helpful to people looking for butterflies, so send a description if you can. Map Austin Butterfly Trail - Google Map with Austin Butterfly Hotspot locations. Compiled by Mike Quinn. text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/idtips by Dan Hardy These are some key identification features to observe for commonly confused butterflies in central Texas, originally presented in Dan's June 2008 ABF presentation: Eastern Tiger & Two-tailed Swallowtails Goatweed & Tropical Leafwings text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/links Here are some links that may interest you. If you're looking for a nursery, check out our page of Nurseries. If you're looking for a place to find butterflies, check out our page of Hot Spots. Clubs & Associations North American Butterfly Association - NABA text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/listserves Email forums are a great way to learn about rarities, get answers to your questions, and keep in touch with others that share your interests. Austin Butterflies - a Yahoo Group for butterfly enthusiasts of Austin. This is an informal discussion group. We especially welcome beginners and would be delighted to hear about what's happening (or not) with the butterflies, caterpillars, host plants, and anything bug-related in your backyard. Short-notice informal field trips in the Austin area may… text/html 2009-09-15T16:53:29-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/membership All of our events are open to the public, but you may want to become a member of the Austin Butterfly Forum to help support us and our events. We also treat members to some extra goodies. Membership is $20 annually per household, payable to the Austin Butterfly Forum and sent to: text/html 2010-06-14T16:55:12-05:00 http://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 2008-11-24T18:39:52-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/newtesting * first bullet * 2nd bullet photo [sldfjsldkfjsdkfj] text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/nurseries The Austin Butterfly Forum thanks these nurseries for their sponsorship. They are among the finest in Austin, and they carry large selections of butterfly nectar and caterpillar host plants. Please help us thank them by visiting them for all your butterfly garden needs. text/html 2010-03-20T12:07:32-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/offsite-links Here are some links that may interest you. If you're looking for a nursery, check out our page of Nurseries. If you're looking for a place to find butterflies, check out our page of Hot Spots. Clubs & Associations North American Butterfly Association - NABA text/html 2010-01-27T23:57:54-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/past-events The Calendar page contains our current event listings, but here's what happened earlier this year: January '09 "Mon Jan 26 - Club Meeting: Wasp Evolution, Biodiversity and Behavior. Presentation by Alan Hook, Zilker Botanical Garden Center, 7:00pm. Dr. Allan Hook, Professor of Biology at St. Edward’s University, will speak about the evolution of Hymenoptera, the group that includes wasps, ants and bees. The talk will include subjects such as why there is so much diversity within this lar… text/html 2008-11-24T18:26:27-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/playground Current pages under construction or used as templates: Common Butterflies of the Austin Area - common Austin butterflies (table format) Photo Test Page - photos without using tables More Photo testing - photos with labels, using tables ID Tips - test page for Dan's Id Tips text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/playing Playground text/html 2009-08-28T00:11:03-05:00 http://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 2010-05-04T21:47:30-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/recent-sightings text/html 2010-03-20T00:17:54-05:00 http://austinbutterflies.org/sidebar Home Recent Sightings Membership Calendar Checklists Counts Gardening Guides Hot Spots Listserves Newsletters Nurseries Past Events Offsite Links