Did you miss the butterfly count? Or did you enjoy the butterfly count so much you want to go looking for more? Then you are in luck! On Saturday, August 25, at 9:30am, we’ll gather at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship (BRCES). For roughly two hours, we’ll look for butterflies (and other critters that […]

Join Matt Orsie and the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy for a workshop on butterflies where Orsie will introduce the wonderful world of our scaled friends to anyone seeking to learn more about identifying and appreciating these remarkable creatures. The main topics to be covered are: Introduction to butterflies, Life cycle, Identification, and Common species in our […]

Join Matt Orsie and the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy for a workshop on butterflies where Orsie will introduce the wonderful world of our scaled friends to anyone seeking to learn more about identifying and appreciating these remarkable creatures. The main topics to be covered are: Introduction to butterflies, Life cycle, Identification, and Common species in our […]

Join Matt Orsie and the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy for a workshop on butterflies where Orsie will introduce the wonderful world of our scaled friends to anyone seeking to learn more about identifying and appreciating these remarkable creatures. The main topics to be covered are: Introduction to butterflies, Life cycle, Identification, and Common species in our […]

Volume 22 Issue 3, Fall 2017 by Anne Ellis For a human, the cool, almost autumnal weather of Saturday, August 5, was greeted with delight. The fresh wind and pleasant temperatures were a welcome relief from the typical heat and humidity of our summers. However, this did not bode well for the 21st Annual Butterfly Count. These winged […]

Butterflies – our flying flowers. Not only are they beautiful to look at, they are important threads in the web of life and indicators of environmental health. Use this butterfly checklist to learn and track the species seen in Loudoun County. Bring it on your walks and join us for the Annual Butterfly Count in August.

Interested in identifying Loudoun’s butterflies? Our Field Guide to the Butterflies of Loudoun County provides photos and identification tips for 63 of the 85 species of butterflies documented in Loudoun County and contains all of the species found on our Annual Loudoun County Butterfly Count. In addition to identification tips and over 130 color photos […]

By Nicole Hamilton As we headed into the 20th year of our butterfly count on August 6th, many of us wondered what our tally would be.  Springtime had been out of whack again.  Rains that we should have had in March and April came in May. It was warm then cool; the plants seem to […]

Vol. 21 Issue 3, Summer 2016 By the Audubon at Home Ambassadors Now, for the first time in its history, gardening has taken on a role that transcends the needs of the gardener. Like it or not, gardeners have become important players in the management of our nation’s wildlife. It is now within the power of […]

Heading into our butterfly count this year, many people were asking, “Where are all the butterflies?” Across our area, other butterfly counts had already taken place and numbers were very low. Why? Well, remember that polar vortex and those extreme cold temperatures that we had last winter? And remember that cooler wet spring that we […]