Welcome to November’s newsletter!In South Africa at least, the butterfly season is in full swing, and we have a full schedule of news, scientific articles, and trip-reports in this newsletter.Over the weekend of 2 and 3 October, LepSoc Africa hosted its Annual Conference and General Meeting, which for the first time, showcased both “live” and “virtual” presenters and audience. While we will undoubtably be able to make the live / virtual interactions slicker in future, I believe the system worked really well and we will adopt a similar formula in future: our Conference will be accessible to all LepSoc Africa members, wherever you may live in the world.