This will be our first in-person meeting since the COVID pandemic started. We will be meeting at Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation's Gallery venue at 4111 Henderson Blvd in South Tampa. If you are new to butterflying, come join us and see if you would like to become an official member. We do butterfly walks, official annual butterfly counts, have speakers during the year at our meetings and enjoy butterflies! NABA-Tampa Bay works to increase enjoyment and conservation of butterflies including Florida native host and nectar plants in landscapes and provide resources for their life cycles. Chemical free gardens, facilitate conservation and help the environment. Note: This is not a group for rearing captive butterflies. For additional information, email [email protected] or call/text 813-748-7098.

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.)  To volunteer, click or copy and paste into a browser: https://volunteersignup.org/HJHWJ

Volunteers are needed to help maintain the Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation-sponsored butterfly garden at 2621 Bayshore Blvd Tampa, FL 33629 (next to the Rose Circle Garden Club).To volunteer, click or copy and paste into a browser: https://volunteersignup.org/3Y8AY

Join Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation and NABA Tampa Bay on a butterfly walk at Picnic Island. Address is 7404 Picnic Island Boulevard in South Tampa. Meeting place will be between the bathrooms and pavilion #605. Cost is $5 for non-NABA members. Please bring payment morning of event. 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. 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. Join Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation and NABA Tampa Bay on a butterfly walk at Picnic Island in South Tampa. We will start out at around the southern-most part of the park and work our way to the entrance by 11:00 a.m.   This event is subject to change due to weather.

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. To volunteer, click or copy and paste into a browser: https://volunteersignup.org/BAJWP  

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.)  To volunteer, click or copy and paste into a browser: https://volunteersignup.org/8QE77