New Jersey Butterfly Club
A chapter of the North American Butterfly Association (NABA)
Upcoming Events
Next Meeting Presentation
Register Here regardless of whether you will attend in-person or on Zoom.
- Date & Time: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 – 6:30 PM
- NOTE: New start time and that this is the 2nd Tuesday of the month
- Location: Morris County Library, 30 East Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ and via Zoom
- Topic: Member's Night!
- Presented By: Club Photographers
What's It About? Please join the New Jersey Butterfly Club on October 8, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. for Members' Night. This event is dedicated to showcasing members' butterfly photos collected throughout 2024. Participating members will present their own photos to the audience.
If you would like to share your butterfly photos at Members' Night, please email the photos to ButterflyClubNJ@gmail.com by September 30, 2024. Please limit photos to those of North American butterfly species collected in 2024. We ask presenters to limit to 15 photos. When submitting your photos, please indicate if you will be attending the meeting in-person or on Zoom.
If you missed any of our prior meetings, you can view videos of some of these meetings on our YouTube Page.
Upcoming Field Trips
The next few field trips are shown below. Trips normally begin promptly at 9:30 unless otherwise noted. Refer to our Complete List of Trips to see all our outings and information about how our trips are conducted. Check back often as details change as the season progresses.
Cape May
Cancelled!
- Date: SEPTEMBER 18 and 19 (Wednesday and Thursday)
- Location: Various locations around the Cape
- Leaders: Colleagues from the Cape area
This always-popular getaway to the Cape is the capstone to our butterfly season. Now that specific dates have been determined it would be wise to immediately arrange for lodging/camping.
Members and guests are asked to meet near the hawk-watch platform at the far end of the parking lot at Cape May Point State Park (where indoor bathrooms are available) at 9:00 on the 18th. We will walk some of the trails through the park with some of our South Jersey colleagues and eat lunch under a pavilion overlooking the water. With the advice of local butterfliers we will decide during lunch where to go in the afternoon and develop a game plan for the next day.
On one late afternoon and evening (to be decided) we have been invited to the lovely home of Teresa and Jim Knipper in Cape May city for a "pot luck" dinner. Those of you who were at their home last year know what a memorable occasion it was, as we walked through their pollinator garden and conferred, consulted, and otherwise hobnobbed with our friends from South Jersey and enjoyed great food on their veranda overlooking the ocean.
Some attendees may wish to come a day earlier and/or stay a day later to butterfly and bird at this premier place for naturalists.
We hope to see many of you there.
4th of July Butterfly Counts
No weekend field trips are scheduled for late June and July because many members participate in Fourth of July Counts, which are held on weekends during this period. If you are interested in participating, contact the count leader.
Here are the butterfly counts for 2024.
- Sandy Hook - June 27, Leader: Henry Kindervatter, (267) 401-2699, hkinderv@gmail.com
- Great Swamp - June 29, Leader: Ben Barkley, (908) 285-4362, benbarkley92@gmail.com
- Springdale - July 6, Leaders: Wade and Sharon Wander, (973) 271-0204 or 271-0051, wec2293@gmail.com
- Mercer - July 7, Leader: Jim Springer, (908) 334-3412, springer@naba.org
- Raritan Canal - July 13, Leader: Mike Gochfeld, (732) 233-5864, gochfeld@eohsi.rutgers.edu
- Bowman's Hill - July 20, Leader: Mary Anne Borge, (609) 397-9684, maborge@yahoo.com
- Duke Farms - July 21, Leader: Mike Gochfeld, (732) 233-5864, gochfeld@eohsi.rutgers.edu
