Category: WBA News
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Three Hundred Butterflies from the 1970s return home to Washington!
Hank Tomlinson was a Washington lepidopterist back in the 1970s. He collected butterflies far and wide in Washington and throughout the west. I believe he lived in the Liberty-Wenatchee area since many of his specimens come from that area. As many of our pioneering lepidopterists did, he assembled a collection of butterflies but instead of…
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WBA goes to Camp Read-a-Rama
One goal/priority that gets discussed with regularity is how to attract “the next generation” of butterflyers to the joys and wonders of leps and by extension, the natural world. Last June, an opportunity for us to share our message of joy and wonder came knocking from Sydney Geyer, the program coordinator for an organization called…
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New WBA Website Blog Search Made Easy
Our updated WBA Website has something new. We now have a Blog that you can use to search for articles from over 97 issues of the G’num (and counting!), from the first volume published in 2000 through the most recent. This includes species profiles, trip reports, and more. The power of the Blog is the…
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Sammamish Earth Day Tabling Event, April 20
Carolyn Heberlein and I participated in the Sammamish Earth Day celebration with a WBA informational table displaying educational and outreach materials. After performing butterfly surveys at Evan’s Creek Preserve in 2023, WBA was invited to participate in the Sammamish event this year. It is a popular event in the Sammamish community and was well attended,…
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WBA’s iNaturalist Project: Washington State Butterflies
WBA has a new iNaturalist project. You won’t have to join the project to be included – any observation of any butterfly (and some moths) in WA state will be automatically included in the project. So – what? You might be asking. Well, what this does, is it allows you or anyone else interested in…
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Sammamish Valley Pollinator Festival
Washington Butterfly Association took part in the Sammamish Valley Pollinator Festival this year at 21 Acres Farm on May 4th, hosted by Liz Kuehn and Maureen Traxler. Despite the damp and dreary weather an estimated 900 people came out to stroll through the many information booths. Our WBA display was colorful and fun drawing quite…
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Earth Day 2024
Earth Day 2024 was celebrated in the Methow Valley April 27 sponsored by Methow Recycles and hosted at the John Doran Ranch in Twisp Washington. Cheryl Bellin and Jim Rauh represented the Washington Butterfly Association and appreciatively, John Kolts, a bumble expert and contributor to the Washington Bee Atlas, joined us at the event to…
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Volunteer Appreciation
Many Many Thanks to our Founding Member Richard Youel For as long as I can remember, Richard Youel has been an important part of the Washington Butterfly Association which was founded in 1999. I was one of many people who took butterfly classes from Idie Ulsh at Seattle Audubon in the mid 1990s. Because of…
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Earth Day 2023 – Methow Valley
Earth Day 2023 (April 22) was celebrated in the Methow Valley with a community afternoon event sponsored by Methow Recycles and hosted at the John Doran Ranch in Twisp, Washington. Among the festivities of the half day celebration was an educational village featuring 15-20 different tabling displays with relevant topics and hands-on activities. WBA, represented…
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A Shout Out To One Of Our Dedicated Volunteers!
One of our long-time volunteers, Carolyn Heberlein has given generously of her time in numerous ways. She is currently our webmaster, and also our -Zoom angel supporting our Zoom meetings and gatherings. Carolyn coordinates the publicity for WBA. In my experience, whenever she is asked to help in some way, she generously responds with -I…
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Field Trip Season 2021, hmmm…
With the pandemic and variants still in our midst, WBA is going to err on the side of caution and suspend live field trips and our annual Butterfly Weekend for the 2021 season. Given the concern of gathering participants from various locations around the state, the sharing of jars, and our enthusiasm that makes us…
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WBA Volunteer Recognition for 2020
We recognize Sue Orlowski as one of the key original members of the Spokane area WBA membership group. In her Board work, field work, recruiting efforts and broadly shared photographs, she may be the best recognized of Spokane area members today. She truly outdid herself this past season by submitting over 300 Eastern Washington butterfly…
