Welcome to the Spring edition of African Butterfly News!

I trust everyone has dusted off their nets, recharged their camera batteries and sorted out their home chores in readiness for the coming season.With a few exceptions, the 2016 - 2017 season was one to forget, with generally small butterfly-emergences, few significant new records and severe weather conditions, culminating in the catastrophic fire in the Southern Cape in June.Hopefully the coming season will be better...LepSoc Africa (LSA) have been busy with conservation efforts (refer to the report below on the Margate water pipeline saga) and new ventures, including the Aloeides and Kedestes Conservation Projects.Mark Williams very kindly offered to perform an editing role for the Newsletter – hopefully this copy (and the previous three editions) is relatively free of taxonomic errors or spelling mistakes!This magazine relies on material from you, the members of LepSoc Africa. Please forward Jeremy Dobson (jchdobson@gmail.com) any news, or photographs that might be of interest.If anyone has ideas regarding future format or content, please feel free to make suggestions.