Welcome to March's Newsletter!

While there haven’t been too many unusual butterfly records locally in 2024, there is plenty of news regarding LepSoc Africa activities and personnel.The Centre for African Butterflies and Moths (CAB) has made great progress, and the Highveld Butterfly Club has a new chairperson.

Also African Butterfly News has a new Editor

Welcome to May's Newsletter!

After a slow start to the year in the Lowveld areas of South Africa, butterfly emergences picked up considerably in April. Also, there has been quite a bit of progress with the butterfly centre (refer to page 9).Good news is that a large batch of Aloeides and Thestor DNA samples that I submitted to Pasi Sihvonen last year have been barcoded. Unfortunately, I haven’t had an opportunity to assess these results yet – further updates to the Aloeides and Thestor Projects will be included in July’s newsletter.

Welcome to September’s newsletter!

September marks the start of the prime butterfly time on the Highveld, so it’s time to dust off your nets and recharge your cameras. Let’s hope for a great butterfly season!Mark Williams is in hospital and has been unable to proof-read this edition of ABN, so there may be an unusual number of spelling mistakes, misidentifications, or tortured punctuation – please bear with me!

Welcome to November’s newsletter!

Locally, the butterfly-season has got off to a solid if unspectacular start; we’ve recorded reasonable species-lists on the Highveld, although abundance has been generally low. A couple of ongoing African Butterfly News (ABN) features came to an end in September, so you may be pleased to see that this edition of the newsletter is a little shorter than in recent months!

Welcome to January’s newsletter!

I’m not sure that many people will look back at 2023 as a great year for Lepidoptera in Africa; it also saw the passing of LepSoc Africa’s founder Mark Williams.Anyway, here’s hoping that 2024 will be better, and I wish you all a wonderful new year, filled with butterfly-related experiences.