Hooray! The field season is here. Schnebley Canyon was frozen out, but a great set of other trips is lined up, including annual conference trips led by David James, who is highly familiar with the butterflies near Dayton. Now, if only the rain gods are kind and do their thing mid-week instead of on weekends, it should be a great season.

Going into spring, we have three “tabling” opportunities lined up to let people know we exist and strut our stuff, the first at Prairie Appreciation Day on May 3, others in Tukwila and Lynnwood a week later. Do you know of others we should be doing?

Once again, kudos to Joyce Bergen who has provided heroic service in lining up the venue, meals, and other details for our annual conference, including scoping out places to stay. For a couple of years, I’ve made short videos of various WBA field trips, showing some of the people, settings, and butterflies we’ve seen. This year, I’ll again show the most recent at the back of room while we are socializing before the “species profile” and formal program start. I’ll also post them on Youtube.

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