Cascadia Butterflies: Their Intriguing Life History

Join us for a unique presentation by butterfly and dragonfly expert, Dave Nunnallee. His talk will emphasize a variety of butterfly families and will include photographs of butterflies, larvae, host plants and habitats.

Mr. Nunnallee and Dr. David James are currently writing "Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies," a book on the immature stages of Washington butterflies. Dave will share some of the more challenging species of butterflies they have found and reared. He will describe how they find wild larvae and collect gravid female butterflies to obtain eggs, how they overwinter those species which require overwintering, and how they select and provide food plants.  

Dave has long had an intense interest in natural history, studying marine fossils for some 25 years and gifting many fossils to the Burke Museum at the University of Washington.  His interests include birds, butterflies, dragonflies, native plants, and natural history in general.  

Dave has actively studied butterflies in the Pacific Northwest for 15 years and has been rearing and photographing butterfly larvae for the past 9 years.  He is an accomplished photographer with more than 200 published photographs of butterflies and several of dragonflies.  David has also been active in butterfly groups, has led numerous butterfly field trips within the PNW, and is a co-founder of the Washington Butterfly Association. 

Please join us Thursday, June 25 at 6:30 for our social time.  Treat yourselves to pictures of our fun and rewarding activities at our Activity Fair - enroll in a Birding Class – join a Conservation Task Force – renew your Membership.

Dave Nunnallee’s fascinating and informative butterfly presentation will start promptly at 7:00. At 7:30 p.m. we will have our highly-anticipated 2009 Birdathon report and brief chapter announcements, followed by refreshments and socializing. 

At 8:15 we rejoin Dave to hear the rest of his excellent program.  The evening is free and open to the public. Invite a friend or anyone who is interested in butterflies and butterfly larvae.

Directions to Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church in Kirkland.