Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation partners in monthly maintenance at the Center for Conservation for the pollinator garden installed in early 2020. Volunteers are needed to help with pollinator garden maintenance at the Center for Conservation in Apollo Beach (529 Estuary Shore Lane) managed by the Florida Aquarium and Florida Fish and Wildlife. To volunteer, sign up here: https://volunteersignup.org/EBRXH The Florida Aquarium Environmental Stewardship Activity Guidelines listed below must be followed.The Florida Aquarium Environmental Stewardship Activity Guidelines: These events offered to Aquarium team members and their families, corporate partners or aquarium affiliates.All participants will need to register for the event in advance.Number of attendees allocated for the event will be based on CDC, State, and County guidelines or activity needs, whichever is more stringent (currently 50-person maximum).Participants encouraged to sign up in family groups or to limit interaction at events to those that are within their immediate party.Participants will be asked to conduct temperature checks morning of to ensure they have no fever (100*F or higher) before arrival, if any symptoms listed below are felt within 24 hours prior to activity participants must stay home:CoughFeverChillsMuscle PainSore ThroatNew loss of taste or smellShortness of breath or difficulty breathingSupplies (bags, grabbers, disposable gloves, etc.) will be separated into stations to limit groups gathering.Participants encouraged to bring their own water bottle and water. (Will have disposable/ recyclable water bottles on hand for those that did not bring and set up in a supply station).Participants encouraged to bring own gloves and shovels – especially for plantings. (Disposable gloves will be provided).Minors 16 – 18 years of age must have parental approval form completed for participation. Minors under 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.Proper disposal locations for items collected will be determined prior to event and clear instructions will be given to participants on how to dispose of items collected.

CFC Butterfly Garden Maintenance: Sept. 9 @ 9:00 am- NOONTampa Bay Butterfly Foundation partners in monthly maintenance at the Center for Conservation for the pollinator garden installed in early 2020. Volunteers are needed to help with pollinator garden maintenance at the Center for Conservation in Apollo Beach (529 Estuary Shore Lane) managed by the Florida Aquarium and Florida Fish and Wildlife.To volunteer, click or copy and paste into a browser: https://volunteersignup.org/93RXR

In celebration of National Pawpaw day in mid September, we will be having a presentation by Anita Camacho and Jordan Parker – “The Swallowtail Cocktail” that will include all of the swallowtails in the Tampa Bay area, their host plants, habitats how to ID the different swallowtails, and more!  Continental breakfast with swallowtail cocktails will be included (for adults 21 and older).  

CFC Butterfly Garden Maintenance: Sept. 23 @ 9:00 am- NOONTampa Bay Butterfly Foundation partners in monthly maintenance at the Center for Conservation for the pollinator garden installed in early 2020. Volunteers are needed to help with pollinator garden maintenance at the Center for Conservation in Apollo Beach (529 Estuary Shore Lane) managed by the Florida Aquarium and Florida Fish and Wildlife.To volunteer, click or copy and paste into a browser: https://volunteersignup.org/BFWRA

Encore! Technology Park:  Sept. 27 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pmVolunteers are needed to help maintain the Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation-sponsored butterfly garden at Encore Park! located at 1210 E. Harrison St. (Corner of Harrison Street and Hank Ballard St.) To volunteer, click or copy and paste into a browser: https://volunteersignup.org/AMAXM

TBBF Hell Strip Habitat Expansion: Sept. 30 @ 8:30 am - 11:30 amVolunteers are needed to perform Hell Strip Habitat maintenance and additional planting to extend the habitat (4110 W. Estrella St.). To volunteer, click or copy and paste into a browser: https://volunteersignup.org/BXETE

TBBF Hell Strip Habitat Expansion: Sept. 30 @ 8:30 am - 11:30 am & 5:30 pm - 7:30 pmVolunteers are needed to perform Hell Strip Habitat maintenance and additional planting to extend the habitat (4110 W. Estrella St.). To volunteer, click or copy and paste into a browser: https://volunteersignup.org/BXETE

CFC Butterfly Garden Maintenance: Oct. 2 @ 8:00 am - 11 amThe Florida Aquarium, Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation and FWC's Suncoast Youth Conservation Center are looking for volunteers to assist with habitat maintenance at Center for Conservation site of the Florida Conservation and Technology Center in Apollo Beach (529 Estuary Shore Lane) as well as their Adopt a Road site along Dickman Road.To volunteer, click or copy and paste into a browser: https://volunteersignup.org/8DYMC

Volunteers are needed to help maintain the Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation-sponsored butterfly garden at Encore Park! located at 1210 E. Harrison St. (Corner of Harrison Street and Hank Ballard St.)

Join the Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation on a butterfly walk at Picnic Island 9:30-11:30am on Sunday, October 17th.  Address is 7404 Picnic Island Boulevard in South Tampa. Meeting place will be between the bathrooms and pavilion #605. Plan for the outdoors, heat, mosquitoes, no-see-ums, getting feet wet if you don’t wear the right shoes to avoid it.  Bring plenty of water to drink.  We will start around the southern most part of the park and work our way to the entrance toward the end.  So we will park initially and then caravan through as we make our way toward the exit.  Species that could be seen include Cloudless sulphur, Orange-barred sulphur, White peacock, Zebra longwing, viceroy, Statira sulphur, Dainty sulphur, Common buckeye, mangrove buckeye, Fiery skipper, Gulf fritillary, Phaon crescent, Cassius blue, Ceraunus blue, Monarch, Common white checkered skipper, Tropical white checkered skipper, and more. This is a new location that may be part of the North American Butterfly Association count circles for Tampa Bay. Come join us to help monitoring populations of butterflies in this beautiful park.

The Florida Aquarium, Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation and FWC's Suncoast Youth Conservation Center are looking for volunteers to assist with habitat maintenance at Center for Conservation site of the Florida Conservation and Technology Center in Apollo Beach (529 Estuary Shore Lane) as well as their Adopt a Road site along Dickman Road.

Our reptile specialist, Ian Alton, will give a presentation and you can meet our reptile ambassadors.