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
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
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
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: Volunteers with Cabbage Whites and Parasitoid Wasp
by Michael Assiff
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
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
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
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
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
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: The Fabulous Fabricius
by Harry Zirlin
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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