JANUARY 15: Winter Party – potluck and white elephant gift exchange starting at 5pm at the home of Jon Pelham.
FEBRUARY 2: “Butterflies and Wildlife of Northwestern Brazil’s Rainforests” -Â Dave and Jo Nunnellee
MARCH 2: “Exploring Utah Habitat” – Ian Young and Mary Maxwell-Young
APRIL 6: “Moths: the Other Lepidoptera” presented by Tom Boucher Includes moths from several parts of the state and some that he guarantees that you will never have seen before!
MAY 4: “The El Nino Impact on Painted Ladies and Butterflies and Monarchs of the West Coast” presented by Dr. Bob Vandenbosch, UW Professor Emeritus Chemistry and Adjunct Professor Physics Bob has researched and published papers on this fascinating subject.
JUNE 1: “Butterflies of the Puerto Vallarta and Mismaloya Areas of Northwest Mexico” presented by Bob Hardwick Bob has traveled here often and photographed a wide variety of species and sites in this region.
July 6: “Butterflies of Chile” A new country for WBA members as Liam Staley and Francisca Bravo will do a PowerPoint presentation on their nature travels in Chile. Many beautiful species will be presented with interesting commentary. We may all want to travel to Chile after this program.
August 3: “Share the Wealth” This is always a fun and very educational program where each person can bring up to 12 of their own slides or photos to present. Some bring photos of local butterflies, trip butterflies or butterflies which you need help on identifying. Photographers and butterfliers of all levels are urged to participate. It will be great fun even if you don’t have photographs.
September 7: “Pigmentation In Butterflies” This fascinating program will include the mechanisms of seasonal morphs, that of the formation of the yellow and black pattern in swallowtails and other dimorphisms. Our own Kiyoshi Hiruma will fly in from Japan to present this! (Well maybe he has a couple other reasons to come to Seattle!!) He is considered a top expert in this genetic field.
October 5: “Welcome to the World of Spiders“
Once a year, we branch out to other species in our ecosystem which are predators of lepidopteria. This month Rod Crawford, the curator of spiders at the Burke Museum, will present his popular program which includes natural history of spiders, spiders in this region, and spiders as predators of butterflies and moths.
November 2: “Butterflies of Yellowstone National Park“
Mardell Moore and Richard Lund will combine their photographs and the experiences of many summers working on the park research projects. This special program will take you to parts of Yellowstone which are not open to the public and show the beautiful butterflies which occur in the park.
December 7: “Neotropical Butterfly Research in Ecuador: Their life histories, food plants, and larval shelters.“
Harold Greeney is a remarkable young man. Not yet 30, Harold has already established himself as a field scientist of considerable renown in the Neotropics. Following his bachelor’s degree at Wake Forest, Harold earned his MS degree in entomology from the University of Arizona. Six years ago Harold founded his Yanayacu research station in the cloud forests on the east slopes of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador. Living and working there and in other South American localities Harold has developed an astounding degree of expertise in neotropical butterflies, their identification, life histories and especially their larval shelters. Additionally, Harold is one of the world’s leading authorities on neotropical bird nests, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of neotropical plants, with emphasis on larval food plants.