Author: Allen Lawrance

Mark your calendars! Our 2023 Winter Gathering will be held on Saturday, March 11th from 9:30am to noon. We are offering two ways to attend this year: in person at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum or virtually via Zoom! Come join us to hear our annual IBMN updates and socialize with other monitors. The keynote, Collaborative Conservation Efforts to Help Save the Rarest Butterflies, will be presented by Jaret Daniels, Assistant Professor and Curator at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History.

Register for the event here.

The 31st annual IBMN workshop will take place Saturday, February 26th, virtually on Zoom. The keynote speaker this year is Anna Walker, Species Survival Officer for Invertebrate Pollinators at the Albuquerque BioPark. Her talk is titled The Power of Community Science Data: An Important Tool for Species Conservation.

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This year’s list of training workshops has been posted. Anyone looking to become a butterfly monitor must attend a beginning training session. All sessions this year are held virtually through zoom. Please check out the upcoming events page for more details.

The 29th annual IBMN workshop will take place Saturday, March 7th, at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago. The keynote speaker this year is Marianna Trevino-Wright, executive director of the National Butterfly Center in Mission Texas. Her talk is titled The Beauty & Bounty of Butterflies on the Border.

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The 28th annual IBMN workshop will take place Saturday, March 9th, at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago. The keynote speaker this year is Tom Velat, Ecology Coordinator at the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County. His talk is titled Baltimore Checkerpsots Are Remarkable! A Detailed Look at the Population Demographics and Management of an Iconic Butterfly in DuPage County, Illinois.

For more details visit the Upcoming Events page.