Connecticut Butterfly Association

07/19/2026

Field trip report- Flaherty Field Trial Area, East Windsor-7/18/2026

A total of 8 participants joined me on this field trip. Despite the cloudy conditions that appeared to have reduced the number of flying butterflies, we were able to find a total of 22 species. The list for the day is as follows:

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (4)
Spicebush Swallowtail (8)
Cabbage White (6)
Orange Sulphur (1)
American Copper (1)
Eastern Tailed-Blue (1)
Summer Azure (5)
Great Spangled Fritillary (1)
Silver-bordered Fritillary (1)
Pearl Crescent (63)
Question Mark (2)
Red Admiral (2)
Common Buckeye (1)
Viceroy (17)
Little Wood-Satyr (1)
Common Wood Nymph (60)
Monarch (20)
Silver-spotted Skipper (1)
Horace's Duskywing (4)
Wild Indigo Duskywing (1)
Little Glassywing (6)
Dun Skipper (1)

Lenny Brown
Wallingford

07/13/2026

National Moth Week FYI (Steve Mayo & Abby Sesselberg):

Here are the events Abby and I are aware of. All are open to the public. Please feel free to forward this and reply to all with any errors or omissions.

July 21 Tuesday RWA Lake Saltonstall 9 PM - 11:30 PM
100 Hosely Avenue, Branford
Located at the boat launch, not the hiking parking lot to the north. Rain cancels. 8:30 PM set up. RWA recreational permits and pre-registration are not required.

July 23 Thursday Talcott Mt Science Center 7:30 - 10:00 pm
$25 per car (free to CES members?)
324 Montevideo Road, Avon
https://talcottscience.org/event/moth-night-2026/

July 24 Friday Jared Eliot Preserve, Guilford 8:30 PM to 11:00 PM
188 Mulberry Farms Road, Guilford, CT
https://guilfordlandtrust.org/event/celebrate-national-moth-week-at-the-jared-eliot-preserve-2026-06-24/

July 25 Saturday Sharon Audubon, Sharon, 7:30 PM
325 Cornwall Bridge Road, Sharon, CT
Event starts with an introduction to iNaturalist

07/11/2026

Bent of the River, Southbury Field Trip Report (7/11/26)

About 12+/- of us found 20 species:

Eastern Tiger Swallowtails – just a couple
Cabbage Whites
Clouded Sulphurs
Orange Sulphurs
Banded Hairstreaks – 4-5, all in the same spot
Eastern Tailed Blues - 2
Great Spangled Fritillaries – Good numbers
Pearl Crescents
Question Marks - some
Eastern Commas – also some
Red Admirals – a couple
Red-spotted Purple - uno
Little Wood Satyrs - a couple
Common Wood Nymphs – 1 of BOTR specialties – rarely (but have) miss them
Monarchs – Healthy numbers
Silver Spotted Skippers - a couple
Wild Indigo Duskywings – 4-6?
Northern Broken Dashes – Lots!
Little Glassy Wing -1
Dun Skippers

We had Juvenal’s Duskywing marked down, but I’m thinking it was Wild Indigo – the latest recorded date for the former in CT was 6/28 - and all the duskywings were fresh.

3 days prior would have added Spicebush Swallowtails, American Copper, Delaware Skipper.

-John Himmelman

06/13/2026

What a nice CBA annual meeting at the Milford Pt Coastal Ctr today... Laura Saucier of the DEEP talked about the upcoming revised CT Butterfly Atlas project. The data collection (much of it from citizen scientists like most of us here) will run from 2027-2035. Stay tuned for how you can contribute! Took some time to review how busy the club has been - impressive! We still need a recording secretary - it's very little work - contact us if interested in more info. Then CBA president Stefan Marten took us for an enjoyable and informative flora and fauna walk on the grounds. So good to spend time with old friends and new! (John H)

06/10/2026

This Saturday!

Looking forward to this!!

06/04/2026

Stefan Martin just came across this and asked me to share it. 3 days left of the survey if interested.

Hi Everyone,

In five days, butterfly watchers, educators, researchers, and curious people of all ages across the globe will step outside together. The inaugural Global Butterfly Week, running from May 30 to June 7, 2026, launches as the first coordinated worldwide effort to monitor butterfly diversity through community science during a single shared window. Co-organized by eButterfly and Fundación Alas y Antenas (Panama Insect Conservation Organization), in collaboration with partners across the globe, the event invites individuals and organizations on every continent to observe butterflies, record their sightings, and contribute to a growing global dataset.

Participating is simple: get outside, observe any butterflies you encounter, and submit your sightings through eButterfly (www.e-butterfly.org) or iNaturalist. Observations submitted through either platform flow directly into the global dataset; no additional reporting is required.

As part of Global Butterfly Week, the McGuire Center will be giving a presentation highlighting the McGuire Center's ongoing research, outreach activities, and other contributions to spreading global awareness of butterflies and their importance to our ecosystem. This will be a virtual presentation over Zoom on Monday June 1 at 11:00 AM Eastern time. I hope to see you all there. Please share this broadly with others to increase visibility for what we do at the Center.

https://ufl.zoom.us/j/91755173106

To learn more about Global Butterfly Week, visit https://gbw.e-butterfly.org/en & www.e-butterfly.org

Or follow the campaign on social media:

Very Best,

Akito Kawahara
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Director, Curator, and Professor
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
Powell Hall, 3215 Hull Road
Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 USA
Tel: 352.273.2018
Email: [email protected]
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mcguire/kawahara/

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