Join us as we search fields and fens, mountains and meadows, even your own backyard, to document the status of Vermont butterflies.
The Vermont Butterfly Atlas is a five-year survey that is completed every 20 years with the help of volunteer community scientists, who document the abundance and distribution of butterflies across Vermont. VBA is part of a network of atlases across the Northeast, spanning from Connecticut through the Canadian Maritimes, giving us a priceless for future comparisons and conservation. We are now poised to be the first state or provincial atlas to repeat a butterfly atlas 20 years later.
Butterflies were largely a mystery in Vermont before hundreds of volunteer community scientists joined us for the first Vermont Butterfly Atlas (2002-2007), heralding a new era for their conservation.
The Second Vermont Butterfly Atlas is a rare opportunity for us to understand how butterfly populations have changed, and prescribe conservation actions to keep common species common, and reverse the trends for those in trouble.
