The Butterfly Sleuth
Schedule
Wed, 08 Apr, 2026 at 07:15 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Hilyard Community Center | Eugene, OR
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Join the Lane County Butterfly Club for this presentation by local butterfly expert Neil Bjorklund about finding uncommon butterflies. How do you find butterfly species in a place where they have never been found before? You certainly can just stumble onto a butterfly in a surprising place—Neil has done so several times, leading to six new county records in Deschutes, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, and Morrow counties. Or you can follow the trail of historic sightings of stray species and try to find them again, though Neil has had mixed results with that approach. However, to intentionally find something new in a place or county requires a different approach. It requires thinking like a sleuth: observing, pondering, deducing and deciding! Neil will share stories of all these approaches to discovering species that haven’t been sighted in a county before, but he will zero in on the game he has come to call Butterfly Sleuthing. You will hear how Neil discovered California Hairstreak, Nevada Cloudywing, Northern Cloudywing, Shasta Blue, Volcano Blue, Pumice Blue, and Arrowhead Blue in our own Lane County – with lots of lovely photos, of course! Come join us for a fun evening, and don’t forget your deerstalker cap and magnifying glass! The game is afoot!
Neil co-founded the Lane County Butterfly Club back in 2000 (when it was called Eugene-Springfield NABA), and over many years served in many capacities, including President, Vice-President, Science Advisor, Field Trip Leader, Butterfly Count Leader, graphic designer and webmaster. Neil created the comprehensive website www.butterfliesoforegon.com and co-wrote the pocket identification guide Butterflies of Lane County, which features nearly 100 of his butterfly photos. Neil currently coordinates the Leona Working Group, a volunteer team monitoring Oregon’s only endemic butterfly, Leona’s Little Blue. Neil also is the co-administrator of the “Butterflies of Oregon Project” on iNaturalist.org, where he monitors butterfly sightings across Oregon and has helped with identification for thousands of Oregon butterfly photos.
7:15-7:30 Refreshments, book sales, free seeds, announcements
7:30-8:30 Presentation, Q & A
8:30-9:00 Refreshments, book sales, free seeds, clean up
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