Welcome to July’s newsletter!July’s newsletter is the 30th edition of African Butterfly News: ABN celebrates its fifth birthday! Since the first newsletter was first published in September 2016, there have been more than 1 700 articles (180 authors) consisting of about 1 870 pages - in excess of one page of African Butterfly News for every single day during the past five years.Keeping track of what’s happening in the world of African butterflies is a fairly daunting task, but I‘m happy to do this as I believe it is an essential part of LepSoc Africa’s services. In future however I won’t be trawling Facebook looking for appropriate articles or photographs - if anyone has news or photos, or sees something in the media that may be of interest to our members, please email me or post the item on one of the LepSoc Africa WhatsApp pages.Thanks to everyone who has contributed photographs or articles over this period and especially to Steve Collins who tries to weed out misidentifications and Mark Williams who proof-reads every word on every page prior to the newsletter’s circulation.Despite being mid-winter in South Africa, this edition of ABN still contains more than 100 pages.