Spend this Memorial Day outdoors observing butterflies and the North American Butterfly Association will reward you with a FREE one-year membership! All you have to do is create an account at the Recent Sightings page, and fill in the requested information. If you don’t know the proper names of the butterflies, just enter descriptions in the Comments section and upload photos, if you have them!
This promotion is open May 27 – 29, 2017, and everyone is encouraged to participate. You may record sightings from your yard, park or anywhere—just make sure to provide good information on your location.
While this promotion does NOT include free membership to the National Butterfly Center, we will be open with FREE ADMISSION on Memorial Day, so you may come count OUR butterflies and see what we’re all about. Everyone who visits Monday, May 29, and signs the guest registry at the Monarch Palapa will be entered in a drawing to win a Camelbak Pak.*
*Actual Camelpak may vary from the one shown.
Super Summer Camps
Registration is OPEN for the National Butterfly Center's young naturalist summer camps. Now is the time to sign up your child, so he or she may spend July chasing butterflies, setting up camp, developing photography skills and learning all about the great outdoors. Of course, our all-star Critter Camp will feature hands-on encounters and education related to wildlife, from our remarkable staff and resident rehabilitator, Angie Garcia. Camps are 8 AM - 12 PM, Monday - Friday, for $25 per child, ages 7 - 12. Click here to enroll.
The Landscape of Your Life
It takes blood, sweat and tears to grow something great.
Here’s a blog about that and more, from our director, Marianna:
Do you ever pause to look around your home, your yard, your life?
A big move and two upcoming anniversaries have given me reason to stop and really examine my place and time. I look around the National Butterfly Center, and can’t believe how things have changed! We’ve made incredible strides over the last five years, and I can’t even imagine where the next five will take us. Daily, we seem to carve out a little more space for the plants we want, while pushing back the ones we don’t. Those who visit often remark that we are a “work in progress,” to which I reply, “Aren’t all things?” Read more….
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
The 22nd Annual Texas Butterfly Festival is ready to receive you! Check out the new website with plenty of information about this very special event, the schedule, field trips and awesome guides! All trips and workshops have a limited number of seats on them, and several are only scheduled for ONE day. These always sell out first, so do not delay. If you have questions, please read the FAQs to see whether we've anticipated it; if we have not, please email info@texasbutterflyfestival.com and allow 24 hours for us to respond.
We're looking forward to another fantastic festival, full of butterflies and friends, and we hope to see YOU there!
