Butterfly Count 2017: Numbers Are Up!
Volume 22 Issue 3, Fall 2017 by Anne Ellis Silvery CheckerspotPhoto by Bryan Henson For a human, the cool, almost...
Butterfly Checklist
Mar 21, 2017
Butterflies – our flying flowers. Not only are they beautiful to look at, they are important threads in the web of...
Field Guide to the Butterflies of Loudoun County
Oct 31, 2016
Interested in identifying Loudoun’s butterflies? Our Field Guide to the Butterflies of Loudoun County provides photos and identification tips for...
Butterfly Count 2016: Where Are All the Butterflies?
Aug 25, 2016
By Nicole Hamilton As we headed into the 20th year of our butterfly count on August 6th, many of us...
Tips for Monarchs and Milkweed
Jul 1, 2016
Vol. 21 Issue 3, Summer 2016 By the Audubon at Home Ambassadors Now, for the first time in its history, gardening...
The Fascinating Harvester Butterfly
Apr 1, 2016
Vol. 21 Issue 1, Spring 2016 By Emily Bzdyk Photo by Nicole Hamilton Butterflies are often the favorites of the...
Common Milkweed: A Plant of Many Virtues
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Vol. 20, Issue 2, Summer 2015 By Donna Quinn Common MilkweedPhoto by Nicole Hamilton Common Milkweed’s story is also a...
Loudoun Butterfly Count 2014 — 3,063 Butterflies, 55 Species Tallied!
Aug 15, 2014
Heading into our butterfly count this year, many people were asking, “Where are all the butterflies?” Across our area, other...
Monarch Butterflies in a Freefall – What will our Butterfly Count Show?
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This Saturday is our 17th Annual Loudoun County Butterfly count where we form into 8 teams, each led by an...
Hoptrees and Giant Swallowtails
Apr 5, 2013
Giant Swallowtails almost sound like some mythical insect but in fact they are real and now and then they flutter through...
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