Help advance science and conservation of butterflies

From the rarest butterflies to the most common, your sightings contribute to conservation decisions, scientific knowledge, education, and more. Help us understand when and where butterflies occur. All you have to do is watch and report your butterfly sightings.

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The Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing is spreading its wings in the Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge – and you can help!

Butterflies have long captured the imagination of people around the world, and maybe none more than the flamboyant rockstars of the butterfly world – the swallowtails! Amongst them, the Queen Alexandra Birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) is the largest butterfly in the world! With this impressive accolade, there really is no better butterfly species to send into […]


Colombia: megadiverse butterflies

By Peter Hall, advisor to eButterfly Colombia, situated in northern South America just north of the equator, is considered by many as the country with the highest number of butterfly species (about 4000) in the world. It’s a destination that I had only visited once in my youth and have long desired to visit again. […]


Call for Participation – Global Butterfly Week

Concept Overview Global Butterfly Week is a coordinated international initiative currently co-led by eButterfly (North America) and  Fundación Alas y Antenas (Panama), with the objective of strengthening global capacity for butterfly education, monitoring, and conservation through inclusive, community-driven activities. The initiative is envisioned as an international coordination effort to expand the annual Butterfly Education and […]