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Butterfly Count 2024: It Was a Short and Stormy Count

Butterfly Count 2024: It Was a Short and Stormy Count

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by Anne Ellis, Butterfly Count Coordinator Common Checkered Skipper.Photo by Bryan Veal The butterfly count results are all in. Looking...

Butterfly Count 2023: A Bit Underwhelming

Butterfly Count 2023: A Bit Underwhelming

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by Anne Ellis, Butterfly Count Coordinator American Snout.Photo by Walt Gould Every year we all get a little worried when...

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Volume 27 Issue 4, Fall 2022 by Anne Ellis, Butterfly Count Coordinator Variegated Fritillary on Goldenrod.Photo by Michael Myers On...

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4259 Reasons to Love Hot Weather

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By Anne Ellis Butterfly Count Coordinator This year marked the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s 25th annual butterfly count. Twelve teams were...

Butterfly Counting in Loudoun County

Butterfly Counting in Loudoun County

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Volume 26 Issue 3, Summer 2021 by Michele Savage, Habitat Herald Managing Editor The butterflies must be counted — each...

Annual Count Shows Butterflies Are Doing Fine

Annual Count Shows Butterflies Are Doing Fine

Aug 28, 2020

By Anne Ellis Butterfly Count Coordinator Red-banded HairstreakPhoto by Gerco Hoogeweg The Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s 24th annual butterfly count was...

Annual Butterfly Count Soars to Record Tally

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Volume 24 Issue 4, Fall 2019 by Anne Ellis Intrepid and stalwart butterfly experts, citizen scientists, and nature-lovers of all...

Butterfly Count Report 2018: Monarchs Everywhere!

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