American Butterflies
American Butterflies is 48 pages of vibrant butterfly photos with articles on butterfly “hot spots,” identification, gardening, photography, book reviews, and regular features and columns. Published quarterly the magazine is a benefit of membership.
Latest Edition of American Butterflies
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Summer 2024
Tropical Milkweed by Jeffrey Glassberg
My Big Life: Part 14, A Dry Run to Puerto Rico by Jeffrey Glassberg
Members Photo Gallery: A Human-Mantis Tug-of-war over Zebra Swallowtail Wings by Wayne Barnes
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun: Puerto Rico Name Surfing by Harry Zirlin
Hot Seens by Mike Reese
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Spring 2024
Butterflies and Fascism by Jeffrey Glassberg
Keep Them Flying: NABA’s Miami Blue Chapter Steps Up to Help Save Endangered Butterflies and Other Creatures on the Richmond Pine Rockland by Dennis Olle
How and Why to Photograph a Butterfly by Jeffrey Glassberg
You Are What You Eat: Spring Azure on Chokeberry in El Paso County, Colorado by Mary Ann Friedman
You Are What You Eat: Zebra Heliconian on Purple Passionflower in Orange/Montgomery County, Texas by Don Dubois
Hot Seens by Mike Reese
Click here for photo key identifying 24 butterfly species from the incredible shot in this issue!
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Winter 2023
  Monarchs Need Help and So Do Many Other Butterflies by Jeffrey Glassberg
Go Get Set On Your Marks: Sedge-Skippers by Jeffrey Glassberg
Gray Ministreaks to the Max – A new wave of expansion for these diminutive wind-surfers by Tom Palmer
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun: Silverdrops by Harry Zirlin
We Are NABA: Lana and Alana Edwards interview by Mike Cerbone
Hot Seens by Mike Reese
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Fall 2023
  Fall into Fun at the Festival by Jeffrey Glassberg
Definitive Destination: Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and Siskiyou Crest, Oregon by Dianne Keller
The Strength of Butterflies Can Shape a Life by Logan Dovalina
A Quick Look at Mexican and Common SootyWings by Jeffrey Glassberg
Description of a New Subspecies of Common Sootywing ‘White-tufted’ Common Sootywing, Pholisora catullus albicirrus by Jeffrey Glassberg
Hot Seens by Mike Reese
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Summer 2023
  The Seasons Change
by Jeffrey Glassberg
Texas Butterfly Festival
by Saban Seth
My Big Life: Part 12, Southern Florida, February 2023
by Jeffrey Glassberg
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun: Altered States The Seasons by Harry Zirlin
We are NABA: Ron Rutowski
by Mike Cerbone
Hot Seens
by Mike Reese
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Spring 2023
  Butterflies Need You More Than Ever
  by Stacy Cohen
Butterfly Migrations
  by Shawan Chowdhury
You Are What You Eat – Fulvia Checkerspot on Wholeleaf Indian-Paintbrush in El Paso County, Colorado
  by Mary Ann Friedman
My Big Life: Part 11, A Wild Giant-Skipper Chase?
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Winter 2022
  Thanks
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
NABA Turns the Big 3-0.
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
You Are What You Eat – Statira Sulphur on Monkeypod in Hidalgo Co, TX.
  by Berry Nall
My Big Life: Part 10, Even Commoners Get the Blues
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun: A Butterfly State of Mind
  by Harry Zirlin
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Fall 2022
Stop! Before You Break the Earth (You Already Broke My Heart)
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Searching South Texas for Succulent Tuberoses
  by Marianna T. Wright
My Big Life, Part 9. West Texas, Again
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Photo Contest
Art of the Butterfly:Â Volunteers with Cabbage Whites and Parasitoid Wasp
  by Michael Assiff
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Summer 2022
  The Future is a Heartleaf Rosemallow: It Will Open Tomorrow
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Here They Come, the Next Mexican Immigrants. Part 2
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
You Are What You Eat: Palamedes Swallowtail on Redbay in Montgomery Co., TX.
  by Don Dubois
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun: Here’s Looking at You Kid!
by Harry Zirlin
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Spring 2022
ID by Butterfly Illustrations – Not.
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Deer Isle, Maine
   by Charlie Roberto and Harry Zirlin
Moving Mountains: California’s Endangered ‘Lange’s’ Mormon Metalmark
  by Cathie Moog
Go Get Set On Your Marks: The Wizards
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Hot Seens
 by Mike Reese
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Winter 2021
Thanks
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
NABA Acquires the Pixie Preserve
  by Marianna T. Wright
My Big Life: Part 8. June 2021. Not Skipping New Mexico
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun: Tongue-tied Warriors of the Ancient World
  by Harry Zirlin
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
With a Little Help From Our Friends
  by Jeane Wharton
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Fall 2021
Being Apolitical is Impossible
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Definitive Destinations: Kankakee Sands. Newman Co. Indiana
   by Kathy Malone
My Big Life, Part 7, May 2021 Searching for ‘Appalachian’ Tiger Swallowtails in North Carolina Mountains
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
You Are What You Eat
  Banded Hairstreak on Butternut in Sussex Co., NJ
  by Barb Sendelbach
NABA Art Contest
Hot Seens
 by Mike Reese
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Summer 2021
Looking Back on a Difficult Year and Looking Forward to a Bright Future
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Definitive Destinations: Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Westchester County. NY
   by Rick Cech, Steve Walter and Harry Zirlin
You Are What You Eat
  Atala on Coontie in Brevard County, Florida
  by Ed Perry IV
My Big Life, Part 5, March 2021: California Dreamin’
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
My Big Life, Part 5, April 2021: Searching for ‘Crystal’ Dusted Skippers in coastal North Carolina
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Art of the Butterfly: Chinese Textiles
Hot Seens
 by Mike Reese
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Spring 2021
I Can See Butterflies at the End of the Turmoil
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Laurel Wilt Disease and Palamedes Swallowtails
  by Jennifer Reed
We Are NABA: Delia Smith
  Mike Cerbone
You Are What You Eat
  Sleepy Orange on Maryland Senna in New Jersey
  by Jane Hurwitz
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun:Â The Fabulous Fabricius
  by Harry Zirlin
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Winter 2020
Thanks (except for you, 2020)
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Definitive Destinations: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
   by Charles R. Smith and Elizabeth A. Domingue
You Are What You Eat:Â Great Southern White on turnips in Florida
  by Ed Perry IV
  Satira Sulphur on Privet Senna in Florida
  Adam Skowronski
Art of the Butterfly
  Tsherin Sherpa
Hot Seens
 by Mike Reese
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Fall 2020
It’s As Clear as Black-and-White or Brown
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Wonderful Oaxaca
  by John Kemner
Butterflying While Being Black
   by Jason Clayborn
   by Pat Rossi
   by Ken Wilson
Members Photo Gallery
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun: Boisduval’s Yellow
  He’s not yellow, he’s just chicken
  by Harry Zirlin
Photographic Contest Winners
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Summer 2020
You Can’t Escape the Effects of Covid19
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
The National Butterfly Center Community
  by Marianna Treviño-Wright
Wear to Go Butterflying
   by Jeffrey Glassberg
You Are What You Eat
  Black Swallowtail on Sweet Fennel in Texas
  by Don Dubois
  Orange-barred Sulphur on Emperor’s Candlesticks in Texas
  by Sandy-Crystal Vaughn
We are NABA: Jason Clayborn
  interview by Mike Cerbone
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Spring 2020
Be a Good Girl or Boy and Go Play Outside
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Definitive Destination: Roxborough State Park, Colorado
  by S. Mark Nelson and Tessa C. Nelson
My Big Life, Part 5, Searching for Coahuila Giant-Skippers
   by Jeffrey Glassberg
You Are What You Eat
  Funereal Duskywing on Poisonbean in Texas
  by Don Dubois
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun:An Eighty-eight by any other name
  by Harry Zirlin
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Winter 2019
Conserving Butterflies: Landing the Rare Ones
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Bee-cirque du Soleil at the National Butterfly Center
  by Paula Sharp
My Big Life, Part 4, Alaskan Bogs and Rockslides
   by Jeffrey Glassberg
You Are What You Eat
  Texan Crescent on Branched Foldwing in Texas
    by Don Dubois
Stone Butterflies of New Mexico
  by Gary Noel Ross
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Fall 2019
Loosen Up and Join the First Wild Gardening Festival
  by Marianna Treviño-Wright
The Foresters of Ghana
  by Bill Bertht
My Big Life, Part 3, Searching for Outis Skipper
   by Jeffey Glassberg
You Are What You Eat
  Red Admiral on Smallspike False-nettle in Texas
    by Don Dubois
NABA Art Contest
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun: A Butterfly Walks Into a Bar
  by Harry Zirlin
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Summer 2019
Birds v Butterflies: Different Keys to Life in a Man-Made World
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
National Butterfly Center Hits a Wall and Keeps Going
  by Marianna Treviño-Wright
My Big Life: Searching for Ozark Swallowtails, and how to recognize one in case of a miraculous encounter
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
You Are What You Eat
  Gray Hairstreak on Black Prairie-Clover in Texas
    by Don Dubois
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Spring 2019
Balancing the U.S. Constitution on a Butterfly’s Back
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Giant Silkmoths
  by Jesse Babonis
A New Jersey Butterflying Big Year
   by Steven Glynn
You Are What You Eat
  Bordered Patch on Straggler Daisy in Texas
    by Jan Dauphin
We Are NABA: Jane Hurwitz
  interview by Mike Cerbone
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun: Tangled Up in Blue
  by Harry Zirlin
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Winter 2018
Thanks
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Go Get Set On Your Marks: Greater Fritillaries Part 4, Lassen Volcanic National Park and Vicinity
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Finding Fritillaries in Lassen National Park
  by Rob Santry
Tales from Tallahassee: The 13th Biennial NABA Members Meeting
  by Jane Hurwitz, David Harder, Erin Diehm and Sharon Wander
You Are What You Eat
  Cloudless Sulphur on Maryland Senna in Georgia
    by Meredith Mays
My Big Life
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Fall 2018
To Build a Wall or Not to Build a Wall, That is the Question
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
A Frosted Elfin Survey in East Texas
  by Dean Jue
Definitive Destination: Priests Pass, Lewis and Clark and Powell Counties, MT
  by Curtis R. Serviss
You Are What You Eat
  King’s Hairstreak on Common Sweetleaf in Florida
    by Mary Ann Friedman
Photographc Contest Winners
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun: Bleeding Hearts
  by Harry Zirlin
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Summer 2018
Fake News
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Fireflies: A Silent Choir of Cool Fire Lights the Night Sky
  by Sara Lewis
The Magic of Monarchs in Mexico
   by Linda Cooper
You Are What You Eat
  Zebra Swallowtail on Small-flowered Pawpaw in FL
    by Mary Ann Friedman
  Red-spotted Purple on Black Cherry in TX
    by Don Dubois
In Memoriam: Andrés Marcelo Sada
  by Pronatura, Lucy Sada and Alida Madero
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Spring 2018
Spring for Hope
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Go Get Set On Your Marks: Great Fritillaries Part 3, the Greater Yosemite Region
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Heliconians: Unraveling the Mysteries Behind the Roosting of Real Social Butterflies
   by Susan Finkbeiner
You Are What You Eat
  Sleepy Orange on Java-bean Senna in TX
    by Don Dubois
  Queen on Prairie Milkvine in TX
    by Don Dubois
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun: Flashers!
  by Harry Zirlin
Cuban Swallowtail (Papilio caiguanabue): First Report from the United States
  by Susan Kolterman
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Fall/Winter 2017
Butterflies Battle Border Wall
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Definitive Destination: Ralph E. Simmons State Forest, Nassau Co., Florida
by Bill Berthet
Butterfly Scouts, Be Prepared!
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
The National Butterfly Center Gets Greener and Follows the Sun
  by Marianna Treviño-Wright
Butterflies Along the Colorado Trail
  by Mark Nelson
You Are What You Eat
  Monarch on Butterfly Milkweed in TX
    by Don Dubois
  Guava Skipper on Guava in TX
    by Jan Dauphin
  Southern Skipperling on Bermudagrass in TX
    by Jan Dauphin
Members Photo Gallery
   by Jill Gorman
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
NABA Art Contest
Readers Write
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Summer 2017
It’s People — Stupid
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Acting Locally to Help Globally Vulnerable Frosted Elfins
  by Dean Jue
You Are What You Eat
  Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on Tuliptree in OH
    by Jan Dixon
  Common Checkered-Skipper on Cuban Fanpetals in TX
    by Don Dubois
Eye Color in Satyrs
    by Jeffrey Glassberg
Taxonomists Just Wanna Have Fun! Go Tell It On the Mountain
  by Harry Zirlin
In Memoriam: Jane Vicroy Scott
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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Spring 2017
Planet Change
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Go Get Set On Your Marks: Satyrium Hairstreaks Part 2, the West
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Daggers amd Darts and Quakers too–My Passion for Moths; or, How a Butterfly Enthusiast Came to the Light
     by Wade Wander
You Are What You Eat
  Pipevine Swallowtail on Woolly Pipevine in TX
    by Don Dubois
We Are NABA: Mary Lynn Delfino
    interview by Mike Cerbone
White-striped Therra (Vacerra caniola): First Report from Mexico
  by Jeffrey Glassberg
Hot Seens
  by Mike Reese
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