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Annual Butterfly Count: Let’s Count Butterflies!

Annual Butterfly Count: Let’s Count Butterflies!

Apr 3, 2025

This is the 29th year that Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy has participated in the North American Butterfly Association (NABA) annual Butterfly...

Butterfly Walk at Banshee Reeks

Butterfly Walk at Banshee Reeks

Apr 3, 2025

Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve is developing large areas of meadow/savannah habitat. Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and Virginia Master Naturalist Anne...

Butterfly Walk at Sweet Run State Park, Sawmill Entrance

Butterfly Walk at Sweet Run State Park, Sawmill Entrance

Apr 3, 2025

Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and Virginia Master Naturalist Anne Ellis on a leisurely walk along “Butterfly Alley” at Sweet Run...

Butterfly Count 2024: It Was a Short and Stormy Count

Butterfly Count 2024: It Was a Short and Stormy Count

Aug 22, 2024

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

Finding Butterflies at Banshee Reeks

Finding Butterflies at Banshee Reeks

Aug 4, 2023

White M Hairstreak butterfly,Photo by Larry Meade In preparation for the Annual Butterfly Count, Anne Ellis and Larry Meade led...

How Does One Count Butterflies?

How Does One Count Butterflies?

Oct 29, 2022

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

Butterflies and Clearwing Moths Found at the Willowsford Wet Meadow

Butterflies and Clearwing Moths Found at the Willowsford Wet Meadow

Aug 3, 2022

On July 23, 16 participants joined Loudoun Wildlife naturalists Anne Ellis and Michael Myers for a hot and humid butterfly...

Mow Less, Plant More to Help Pollinators

Aug 1, 2022

Volume 27 Issue 3, Summer 2022 by BJ Lecrone, Audubon at Home Ambassador The beautiful butterflies and moths have returned...

Book Review: Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman

Book Review: Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman

May 15, 2022

Volume 27 Issue 2, Spring  2022 Review by Steve Allen Everyone loves butterflies. They are beautiful, reflecting every color in the...

Sachems Galore at JK Black Oak

Sachems Galore at JK Black Oak

Sep 5, 2021

Sachem butterfly.Photo by Gerco Hoogeweg The first Birds, Butterflies and Dragonflies walk at JK Black Oak Wildlife Sanctuary was held...

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