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© CJ Vincent

ENTER THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF BUTTERFLIES

with Southeastern Arizona's chapter of NABA

the North American Butterfly Association

Arizona Skipper

March Featured

Speaker & Article

“Gardening for Butterflies & Habitat Creation”

By CJ Vincent

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Local Butterfly

Gardens

Tour a butterfly garden, get planting ideas, and start one of your own. Here’s a sample of some around townPage 4- 5

Member’s Photos!

Check out our

member’s gallery Page 6Field Trip Reports

Including great

photos!Page 7-8

Announcements, upcoming events and other items of interest Page 10

Member Activities Community

contributions by SEABA members!Page 10

Presidents Message

Jeff shares some

ideas and thoughtsBook Review:

‘Do Butterflies

Bite?’

Re-viewed by Hank BrodkinPage 9

March - April! Volume 11 - #2

The

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Board MembersContact us… ques-tions, ideas

Editor’s Corner

Spring Is here!

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Membership Info

New to butterflies or an expert,join us

Meeting Information

New programs & presentations monthlyPage 11

Coming soon,To the internet…

SEAZButterfly.orgOur new web site is in development!!!

Our domain name has been secured

and hosting has been arranged. Now

is the time for SEABA members to

contribute ideas on content, as well as

photos, links and other pertinent, na-

ture related links. We will be offering

a ‘link exchange’ with other NABA

sites, as well with local Tucson nature

organizations and nature-based busi-

nesses.

Soon to be on-line!!!

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Editor’s Corner… Spring is here!

With penstemons festooning our roadsides,

marigolds flashing their golden yellow Owl’s

Clover making hillsides glow, you can tell spring

has arrived in Tucson. The Harris’s Hawks are

nesting and squawking in the trees, helping to keep

the rabbit population in check.

Butterflies flutter by…

Two great field trips were led into the surrounding

mountains and valleys, and excited , leaping

lepsters were rewarded with some rare sightings.

Rich Hoyer has submitted some excellent

information in the report section.

Thank you to all the contributors

We received submissions from Elaine Halbedel, Rich Hoyer, Bob Behrstock, Bob Parks, as

well as an article from Hank Brodkin, in addition to my ‘editor’ contributions. If the

response from one issue to the next keeps going, we’ll soon have a magazine! (Just kidding,

I know there are some with ‘size issues’ already)

Once again…

Our newsletter now has links to all of your Board Member’s respective emails, just click

their name. As well, in our articles, reviews and notices, you can follow links to other sites

with related information.

We have expanded our presence on the web by adding a Facebook Page on the Facebook

social networking site. There is a photo and video gallery started. Anyone can join it and upload photos, share notes or make impromptu field trip plans with others. It already has our schedule of speakers and events posted to it.

Will there really be a new web site??

Yes, time for creation has been a limiting factor. Domain names have been purchased,

hosting has been set, now, there is the whole formatting. SEABA members will be able to

have there own individual photo galleries and we will have a discussion board.

Anyone can help!!!

Read this whole thing, cover to cover, then GO OUTSIDE!

CJ

SEABA Board Members

Questions, information or suggestions?

President:! Jeff Babson! 520-488-8551

Vice President/Programs:! John Rhodes! 520-444-2724

Programs:! Mary Kay Eiermann! 520-615-5164

Secretary/Historian:! Barbara Terkanian! 520-670-9497

Treasurer:! Priscilla Brodkin! 520-803-9700

! Box 1012

! Hereford, AZ 85615

Law/Finance Counsel:! Herb Trossman! 520-749-5825

Field Trips:! Elaine Halbedel! 520-318-8614

Membership Records:! Cindy &Tom Bethard! 520-744-0060

Education:! Blainey Korff! 520-298-859

Publicity:! Pamela Elia

Newsletter Editor/Website:! CJ Vincent! 520-907-8735

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Learn how to attract and KEEP butterflies fluttering about your yard, ranch, or small urban landscape!

Learn the 'hows & whys' of plants that will feed and nurture butterfly populations.

CJ & MaryEllen have recreated native habitats at their cozy B&B, good enough to be declared "…the best butterfly gardens in Tucson…" by Mr Jim Brock, author/butterfly expert.

CJ will take you on a photographic journey depicting the transformation from driveway/parking lot to a productive, active, and

vibrantly colored landscape. Information on larval & nectar producing plant species will be offered so you can start your own garden, right on your patio!!!

“Our plant list information was gleaned from many sources”, said CJ, “including Both of Jim Brock’s books, the Brodkin’s book, as well as available lists from on-line

sources.” CJ and MaryEllen have had the active participation of Dr. Allan Zimmerman

in compiling their plant lists for their property as well as keeping data on the success rates of different plants on their property. With the

proximity of the Santa Catalina Mountains, there are freezing issues that a lot of the areas in town don’t encounter. Trial and error have

produced a plant list exceeding forty pages.

“While we have been involved with habitat restoration for over fourteen years, the specific garden areas and garden photos are a recent addition to our landscape. We’ve gone from parking lot to verdant garden in fifteen months.”

The presentation covers some of the often ‘overlooked’ plants important to butterflies.

Butterfly ‘Gardening’&Habitat CreationPresented by CJ Vincent

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Aristolochia fimbriata (Prostrate Dutchman's Pipe): Pipevine Swallow-tail (Battus philenor) Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed): Queen (Danaus gilippus) Atriplex canescens (Fourwing Saltbush): Pygmy Blue (Brephidium exile) Bouteloua curtipendula (Sideoats Grama): Orange Skipperling (Copaeo-des aurantiacus) Celtis pallida (Desert Hackberry): Empress Leilia (Asterocampa leilia), American Snout (Libytheana carinenta) Dalea frutescens (Black Dalea): Southern Dogface (Colias cesonia) Dalea pulchra (Bush Dalea): Southern Dogface (Colias cesonia)

Dalea versicolor var. sessilis: Southern Dogface (Colias cesonia); Ceraunus Blue (Hemiargus ceraunus)Calliandra californica (Baja Fairy Duster): Ceraunus Blue (Hemiargus ceraunus) Dyssodia pentachaeta (Golden Dyssodia): Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole) Lippia canescens repens (Frogfruit): Phaon Crescent (Phyciodes phaon) Muhlenbergia dumosa (Bamboo Muhly): Orange Skipperling (Copaeodes aurantiacus) Passiflora foetida (Passionvine): Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) Senna covesii (Desert Senna): Sleepy Orange (Eurema nicippe), Cloud-less Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) Senna leptocarpa (Longpod Senna): Sleepy Orange (Eurema nicippe), Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae)

Tithonia frutescens (Mexican Sunflower Shrub): Bordered Patch (Chlosyne lacinia)

Nectar Plants:

Aloysia gratissima (Bee Bush) Asclepias linaria (Pineleaf Milkweed) Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed) Buddleia davidii (Butterfly Bush) Buddleia marrubifolia (Woolly Butterfly Bush) Dalea frutescens (Black Dalea) Dalea pulchra (Bush Dalea)

Dalea versicolor var. sessilis Dyssodia pentachaeta (Golden Dyssodia) Eupatorium greggii (Boneset) Lantana montevidensis (Trailing Lantana)

Southern Arizona Butterfly GardensArticle By CJ Vincent

Check out these spots around town. Do you have a butterfly gar-den? Send us your photos to be included in an upcoming photo showcase of SEABA member’s gardens.

With the provided list below, you can get started on your own gar-den.

The Mason Butterfly Garden

With the support of the Tucson Chapter of the Arizona Native Plant Society, the SE Arizona Butterfly Association has sponsored and created a BUTTERFLY GARDEN! on the Tucson Audubon's Mason Property. Our garden, which! features both nectar plants and host plants, will be an important part of an education program to involve area schools.For more information or to help maintain the garden contact Linda Greene at 520-544-2686/ lhgreene@yahoo.com.!

PLANT LIST SEABA's Butterfly Gardenat the Tucson Audubon Society's Mason Center

Larval Food Plants:

©Lia Sansom

Ares Metalmark on Butterfly Weed

©Priscilla Brodkin

Mason Center

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The Patagonia Butterfly GardenThe Patagonia Butterfly Garden was started in 1997 by a small group of volunteers from the Patagonia Area.! The founder of the group had seen butterfly gardens in other communities and thought Patagonia, with its phenomenal number of butterflies, would be a perfect place for such a garden. Permission to renovate the existing planted! area! in the park was given by the Patagonia Town Council who agreed to supply the water for the garden.! Many local residents, businesses, and organi-zations made donations for plants and irrigation equipment. Valuable advice for planting the garden was provided by Jim Brock- a noted butterfly expert living in Tucson.! Volunteers per-form all the maintenance for the garden. Noted butterfly expert and author, Bob Stewart, now lives in the area and maintains the butterfly list for the garden. If you would like to get involved with the garden, make a donation, or get more information about the butterflies, you may reach the committee by inquiring at Kazzam Nature Center, 348 Naugle Ave., Patagonia or by email to bullwinkle@theriver Tax deductible donations to the garden can be made through the Patagonia Woman's Club, PO Box 892 ,! Patagonia,AZ 85624

Lippia canescens repens (Frogfruit)Tithonia frutescens (Mexican Sunflower Shrub)

The Tucson Botanical GardenButterfly Garden displays a variety of seasonal plants that attract regional butterflies.

I recently visited the Garden’s Garden and there was a great number of blooming species.

The plant list available is extensive and very detailed and I highly recommend it to anyone starting a garden in Tucson.

Yarina Hind, John Rhodes and their staff have put together a great exhibit and while you are there, you can still see ‘Butterfly Magic at the Gardens”. It has proven t be so popular that it has been extended through the month of April.

©Lia Sansom

Mason Center

The Oasis at Way Out WestThe Oasis at Way Out West is a private 3 acre garden offering pri-vate tours, and is located just north of Tucson, adjacent to the Santa Catalina Mountains. Described by Mr Jim Brock, The Butterfly Man as, “…simply amazing…”,The Oasis at Way Out West has gardens planted that offer blooming plants year round. The Arizona Native Plant Society as well as the Tucson Botanic Gardens have brought their members to this location on field trips!!!

The Oasis at Way Out West

© CJ Vincent

The Oasis at Way Out West

© CJ Vincent

Stroll butterfly gardens, formal demonstration gardens,walk through the meadow, all without ever leaving the grounds. Private tours of the gardens for the general public are available by ap-pointment. The Oasis has an active habitat restoration program and their extensive plant list is available for perusal.

Join Naturalist CJ Vincent for walks through the property, see the nesting Harris’s Hawks or the rare Rufous-winged Sparrow, (an everyday visitor), see the hummingbirds and lizards, as well as nearly eighty species of butterflies!!!!! 520.825.4590 or 520.907.8735 (CJ) for information or to book private tours. WowArizona.com

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Member’s Photo Gallery

Reakirt's Blue Hemiargus isola

© Bob Parks

Robberfly Efferia Mortensoni

Efferia mortensoni female consuming an Orange Sulphur ButterflyColias eurytheme female

© Bob Parks

©CJ Vincent

Juniper Hairstreak on Wilcox's barberry (Fort)

© Bob Behrstock Naturwide Images

Dactylotum bicolor male

© Bob Parks

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui

Freshly emerged from egg reared on-site

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Pima CanyonFebruary 22The undisputed highlight from the SouthEast Arizona Butterfly Association field trip into Tucson's Pima Canyon was the XAMI HAIRSTREAK, one of Arizona's rarest breeding butterflies. Scot Pipkin spotted in on some rocks right in the trail at about 1.5 miles from the trailhead, our farthest point, and he and Elaine Halbedel

(and maybe others) got some great photos. Unfortunately, Doug Mul-lens and I missed seeing it, as we were scrambling up one of the nearby slopes looking for its host plant, Graptopetalum rusbyi (San Francisco River Leatherpetal). I like to think that we flushed it from the hillsides so that everyone else could see it. It was seen by about 11 peo-ple, which represents a huge pro-portion of the total number of people who have ever seen this in-sect in Arizona. (Many more have seen it Texas, the place to go for it.)

I was helped immensely by the expertise of Jim Brock and many pairs of sharp and experienced eyes. There were a total of 17 of us, and most people were present for the entire hike. A couple highlights; a sunning female TROPICAL LEAFWING, worn, and several gorgeous SPRING WHITES, including a yellowish female and some males perched on wet sand.

Birdwise, the PEREGRINE FALCON at the beginning of the hike and the GOLDEN EAGLE at the very end aren't seen here on every trip. We also enjoyed a GREATER ROADRUNNER singing from a ridgetop boulder, dangling a lizard from the tip of his bill.

Field Trips:Beginners are welcome on all field trips and easy strolls. A donation of $5 per person ($3.00 for the Easy Strolls) to benefit SEABA will be appreciated. A copy of the new SEABA check list will be given to all who make that donation. Leaders donate their time and expertise.!

We will carpool as much as possible. High clearance vehicles may be necessary on some trips. Remember to share gas expenses.!

Always dress for the field; unless otherwise noted. We will be walking and exploring on rough terrain, wear sturdy shoes. Bring a hat, plenty of water, sunscreen and lunch and a pair of binoculars (close focus if possi-ble).

Montosa CanyonMarch 14Thank you all for participating. Despite the less than perfect weather, we got views of enough species to make it worthwhile. I hope a lot of you learned some useful id tips. I know I did, and I enjoyed getting to meet many of you for the first time. I think we had as many as 33 people at one time, with various car loads departing earlier.

We heard but didn’t see the Black-capped Gnatcatchers. They are probably nesting now and became quiet when we got near. Those who left early missed a beautiful Painted Redstart lower in the canyon, where we also had a Two-tailed Swallowtail fly right over our heads and a cooperative Common Streaky-Skipper.

The slender species of paintbrush at the seep is Castil-leja minor, Lesser Indian Paintbrush, and the "regular" one nearby was probably C. tenuiflora (formerly C. laxa), the Santa Catalina Indian Paintbrush.

Pipevine Swallowtail" Battus philenor 5Two-tailed Swallowtail" Papilio multicaudata 1SW Sara Orangetip" Anthocharis sara thoosa 1Dainty Sulphur" " Nathalis iole 1Gray Hairstreak" " Strymon melinus 1SW Echo Azure" " Celastrina echo cinerea 7Zela Metalmark" " Emesis zela 1Sonoran Metalmark" Apodemia mejicanus mejicanus 5

©Elaine Halbedel

Pipevine Swallowtail (1)Two-tailed Swallowtail (1)Spring White (6)Desert Orangetip (10)Sara Orangetip (30)Southern Dogface (1)Sleepy Orange (5)Dainty Sulphur (1)Xami Hairstreak (1)Gray Hairstreak (3)Echo Azure (25)Reakirt's Blue (1)American Snout (10)Tiny Checkerspot (2)Texan Crescent (3)Common Buckeye (3)Mourning Cloak (1)Red Admiral (1)Painted Lady (1)

Tropical Leafwing (1)Empress Leilia (1)Golden-headed Scallopwing (3)Arizona Powdered-Skipper (1)Funereal Duskywing (10)

Trip Leader & Reports:

Rich HoyerTucson, Arizona

Senior Leader for WINGShttp://wingsbirds.com

Editor’s Note: SEABA extends a HUGE Thank you! to Rich for leading BOTH of these two field trips and submitting great summary numbers and reports

© Rich Hoyer

Sara Orangetip

Xami Hairstreak

©Elaine Halbedel

Tropical Leafwing

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Bordered Patch" " Chlosyne lacinia 2"Tiny Checkerspot"" Dymasia dymas 3Texan Crescent" " Phyciodes texana 4Painted Lady" " Vanessa cardui 5Common Buckeye" Junonia coenia 2Golden-headed Scallopwing Staphylus ceos 6Mournful Duskywing" Erynnis tristis 1Funereal Duskywing" Erynnis funeralis 2White Checkered-Skipper" Pyrgus albescens 1Common Streaky-Skipper"Celotes nessus 1White-barred Skipper" Atrytonopsis pittacus 1

Trip Leader & Reports:

Rich HoyerTucson, Arizona

Senior Leader for WINGShttp://wingsbirds.com

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APRIL 5 SEABA FIELD TRIPSabino CanyonPlease join Mary Klinkel and Fred Heath for a leisurely stroll up Sabino Canyon to see spring butterflies on Sunday, April 5.

Meet at the Sabino Canyon Visitor Center plaza at 10 AM. We will walk from there. The!Visitor Center is located at 5900 North Sabino Canyon Road, 4.5 miles north of its junction with Tanque Verde Road in northeast Tucson. A day pass for parking at Sabino Canyon is currently $5.

Bring water, lunch, close-focusing binoculars, field guides, cameras, sunscreen, lunch, hiking sticks. $5 donation (suggested). Check lists will be distributed.

© Rich Hoyer

© Rich Hoyer© Rich Hoyer

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A Message from the PresidentThe unseasonably warm temperatures…

…in southern Arizona of late has sparked a resurgence in butterfly activity.! In the last week, I have seen Pipevine Swallowtails (ovipositing), both Orangetips, Dainty Sul-phur, Spring Azure (or Echo Azure or whatever our local population is called!), Reakirt's Blue, Painted Lady, Fatal and Zela Metalmarks, among others.! Rich Hoyer's recent field trip to Pima Canyon saw other species, including Xami Hairstreak and Tropical Leafwing.! So, the butterfly season is off to a good start.

SEABA is also undergoing a resurgence.!!Two of the more exciting aspects of this!are the new-look Arizona Skipper and the soon-to-be-revealed new SEABA website!!

Another exciting development is the birth of the Hank and Priscilla Brodkin Award, in honor of two of SEABA's founders and most dedicated members.! Hank and Priscilla are very accomplished authors, photog-raphers, field trip leaders, and lecturers.! The Award is our way of thanking them for their exceptional service and dedication to the organization.! This annual award will be presented in recognition!of the SEABA member who has done the most to promote SEABA's Mission Statement ("To support and advocate for the conservation, education, and enjoyment of butterflies and their habitats."). SEABA members can nominate any other member that they think is deserving of the Award.! Once the new website is launched, a pdf file of the nomination form will be available for members to submit nominees to the Board.! The deadline for nominations is the end of the last SEABA meeting in May.! The winner will be decided by the Board and announced at the first meeting following our summer break in September.! Until the website is available, you can send nominations to me (jeff@skyislandtours.com).! Please include the nominee's name and why you are nominating them.

I hope to see you at upcoming meetings or out in the field.! I have to go, I think a Brown Elfin just flew by!

" Jeff

“Do Butterflies Bite?”Fascinating Answers to Questions about Butter-

flies and MothsHazel Davies & C.A. Butler

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Soft-

cover, 224 pages, $19.95

Review by Hank Brodkin

Do Butterflies Bite? is a very useful book, especially to those of us who pre-pare and give talks to the public about butterflies. The senior author, Hazel Davies, coordinates the Butterfly Conser-vatory at the American Museum of Natu-ral History as part of her duties as the Manager of Living Exhibits. She is kind of the John Rhodes of the AMNH. Carol Butler is a practicing psychotherapist and mediator in New York City, an accom-plished photographer and author, and has been a docent at the Butterfly Con-servatory for the past 4 years.

The body of the book is broken down into ten chapters – a look at the Contents sec-tion lists these with the questions listed in

each one. A sample list of chapters would include Butterfly Basics, Butterfly Life, Butterfly Love, Metamorphosis, and Dangers and Defenses. Each chapter asks from 11 to 17 questions with very com-plete answers some of which also contain references to other questions and answers in other chapters. Questions include: Is it a butterfly or is it a moth? Which butter-flies and moths are the smallest in the world? Do butterflies have a sense of smell? Why are Moths attracted to light? How do butterflies defend themselves? And many, many more. There is a color photo section, mostly by the authors. Black and white photos and William H. Howe’s superb detailed illus-trations are scattered throughout the book.

Appendices include such lists as Selected Nectar Plants for North American Butter-flies and Moths, Host Plants for Selected North American Butterflies and Moths, a large list of Public Butterfly Conservato-ries and Exhibits world wide, Website

Resources, Organizations, Suggestions for Further Reading, a rather useless partial list of world wide butterfly and moth species, and most interesting to me, a very complete list of source material used for each chapter.

Errors appear to be few. One pet peeve of mine is the spelling of the South Ameri-can country of Colombia with a “u” fol-lowing the “l”. Also one of the color pho-tos purporting to show a Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus, is really either a female Teleus or Tanna Longtail, fe-males that are almost impossi-ble to correctly identify from each other from a photograph.

So, do butterflies bite? I’ll let you read the book to find out!"

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Announcements, Proclamations…(or just some fun, cool, things to do!)

Butterfly Magic at the Gardens Extended through April!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Visit Tucson Botanic Gardens and visit their indoor AND outdoor facilities

SEABA Board Member Elections at the April Meeting

Brown Canyon Activities

Walk the Rocks: The Geologic Story of Brown Canyon

Saturday walk April 11,Leader Richard Conway

Fee: $15/person

Spend a day walking the trails of Brown Canyon. With your eyes to the rocks and ridge-tops you will learn to recognize the clues that reveal the Baboquivari Mountains geologic history.

Fire in the Canyon: How a Sky Island Ecosystem Responds to Fire

Saturday walks to be scheduled in June and July. Leaders: refuge staff Fee: $15/person.

To register for a walk or workshop, please send a check to Friends of Buenos Aires NWR, PO Box 577, Arivaca, AZ 85601, and tell us which walk you would like to attend. If you need more information please contact Richard Conway at r_conway@mac.com or 520 405 5665 (cell) or 520 398 3937. For Refuge info call 520-823-4251 ext. 500.

SEABA in ACTION! Are we having fun, yet?SEABA does more than Field Trips!

Our members volunteered at the Desert Museum’s Butterfly & Plant Day last fall. Happy, smiling faces sharing their fas-cination with butterflies makes people pause and consider the wonders of the butterfly world. SEABA is looking to reach more people in the community and it starts with volunteers like these, giving freely of themselves. Would you like to have a presentation on butter-flies in your school, civic center or community center? Please contact one of our board mem-bers for arrangements.

SEABA MembersPictured, left-to-right:Blainey KorffLibby Sullivan,Mary Kay Eiermann Carolyn VieiraGay Gilbert.

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Membership InformationTwo types of membership are offered. You may become a member of SEABA only. The $10.00 annual dues include 6 issues of SEABA’S newsletter THE ARIZONA

SKIPPER. If you have an E-mail address the newsletter is sent to you electronically. Members without E-mail receive a printed copy via the US Post Office.

You may also choose to join NABA for the annual $30.00 individual dues or the $40.00 family dues. This includes membership in our local chapter. In addition to

the SEABA newsletter, NABA members receive two quarterly publications, AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES, an educational magazine with many full color photos,

and BUTTERFLY GARDENER. We encourage you to join NABA. SEABA receives a share of your dues, and the publications are excellent.

SEABA membership renewal notices will be sent to you by the chapter Membership Records Keeper. If you have an E-mail address, your renewal notice will come

to your in box. Other members receive renewal notices via the US Post Office. NABA membership renewal notices come from NABA’s national headquarters.

However, please send your NABA and SEABA renewals to the SEABA address. The NABA membership checks will be forwarded to NABA. This enables SE-

ABA to maintain more accurate records. SEABA receives membership reports from NABA, but they do not include the names of persons who reside outside of

Pima, Cochise, and Santa Cruz counties. The only way we are able to track out-of-area memberships in NABA is if renewals are sent to our chapter.

Fill out below, and mail to SEABA, PO Box 1012, Hereford, AZ 85615

_____Yes, I want to join - _____or renew my SEABA or NABA/SEABA membership!

SEABA dues only: __ Local Membership Only $10.00 per household (does not include NABA publications) OR

If you would like to join both SEABA and NABA and receive the NABA magazine and garden newsletter enclose a check to reflect the following:

Dues enclosed (circle): Regular $30 ($60 outside U.S., Canada or Mexico), Family $40 ($80 outside North America). Special sponsorship levels: Copper $50; Skipper

$100; Admiral $250; Monarch $1000.

Special tax deductible contributions to NABA (please circle): $125, $200, $1000, $5000.

All dues and subscriptions are payable in U.S. dollars.

Name: _____________________________________________________________________

Address: ___________________________________________________________________

City: __________________________ State: _____________ Zip: ______________________

e-mail: ____________________________ Telephone _________________________________

For a SEABA Membership List send a SASE to Cindy Bethard, 3551 W Jameson PL, Tucson, AZ 85742

© Doug Mullins

SEABA is a local chapter of the North American Butterfly Association (NABA), a federally listed tax exempt charitable organization. Our area covers most of Pima,

Santa Cruz, Cochise and southern Graham Counties ( the area covered by postal zip codes 856-- and 857-- ) but as this is one of the prime butterfly spots in the

country we have members from around the world. Both SEABA and NABA are non-profit organizations formed to promote non-consumptive, recreational

butterflying and to increase enjoyment, knowledge and conservation of butterflies including butterfly gardening, identification, photography and outreach to to

local schools and the public.

As a non-profit organization our officers are all volunteers. We need more volunteers to help the hard working people who have made us so successful in such a

short period of time. Click on officers to contact them - please join us and enjoy the wonderful, fluttering, beautiful butterflies of the desert southwest.

We have started a program of special field trip opportunities for volunteers only

All photos © of the respective owners, as noted.

Unauthorized reproduction or use without

written release of the owner is

expressly prohibited.

DON’T STEAL!!!

The Arizona Skipper © SEABA & CJ Vincent

Published Bi-monthly

Unauthorized reproduction prohibited

Attend our meetings and meet your fellow enthusiastsALL SEABA ACTIVITIES ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!!

Meetings are all be held at the Tucson Botanical Gardens on the third Tuesday of the month - January through May and September through

November - 7:00 to 9:00 PM in the Education Building unless announced otherwise. The Tucson Botanical Gardens are located at 2150

North Alvernon Way, just south of Grant Road, in Tucson, Arizona.

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Arizona SkipperENTER THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF BUTTERFLIES

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Arizona SkipperENTER THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF BUTTERFLIES

with Southeastern Arizona's chapter of NABA

the North American Butterfly Association

© Rich Hoyer © Elaine Halbedel

© CJ Vincent

© Bob Parks