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

Fall 2024

How Not to Name a Butterfly by Jeffrey Glassberg
Three Days at NABA’s National Butterfly Center by Stephanie Lopez and Luciano Guerra
My Big Life: Part 15, Have I Really Lost My Marbles? by Jeffrey Glassberg
Hot Seens by Mike Reese

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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
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