Historic Bethabara Park (Winston-Salem, NC)
Historic Bethabara Park 2147 Bethabara Road, Winston-Salem, NC, United StatesOn Saturday, June 18, 2024, the Triad Chapter of CBS (Carolina Butterfly Society) will hold a butterfly walk at the Historic Bethabara Park Butterfly Garden. The Bethabara Gardens are beautiful, historically significant places to explore. When the Moravians settled Bethabara in the early 1750s, one of the first things they established were the gardens. The […]
Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve & Sandhills Gamelands (NC)
Weymouth Woods - Sandhills NP 1024 N Fort Bragg Rd, Southern Pines, NC, United StatesSaturday June 1, 2024 - Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve We will meet at the Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve Visitor’s Center at 9:00 a.m. The visitor's center address is 1024 N Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines, NC 28387 (with GPS coordinates listed on the website as 35.1470, -79.3715). The GPS coordinates for the entrance […]
Pat Holder’s Home Butterfly Garden (Asheboro, NC)
Pat Holder Home Butterfly Garden CONTACT PAT FOR THE ADDRESSOn Saturday, June 15, 2024, the Triad Chapter of CBS (Carolina Butterfly Society) will hold a butterfly walk at Pat Holder’s native plant home butterfly garden in Asheboro, North Carolina. There will be safe parking on the side of the country road as well as a little parking in Pat’s driveway. If you would like […]
Super-Sod Farm and Surrounding Area – (Orangeburg, SC)
Super-Sod Farm 3086 Five Chop Road, Orangeburg, SC, United StatesThe Carolina Butterfly Society Midlands Chapter will explore areas around and possibly inside the Super-Sod Farm in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Our target species is the Common Sootywing which has been recoded here in the past. Meet at the Super-Sod office at 3086 Five Chop Road, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 29115. The GPS coordinates are 33.45936, -80.74331. […]
NABA Butterfly Count (CSRV, Aiken County, SC)
Silver Bluff Audubon Sanctuary 4542 Silver Bluff Road, Jackson, SC, United StatesOn Saturday, July 6, 2024, NABA (North American Butterfly Association) will hold a butterfly count in the CSRV (Central Savannah River Valley) at the Silver Bluff Audubon Center in Jackson, South Carolina. Audubon’s Silver Bluff Sanctuary is a 3,400-acre woodland overlooking the Savannah River. Here you’ll find extensive pine forests and bottomland hardwood forests; beautiful […]
NABA Count – Congaree National Park (Hopkins, SC)
Congaree National Park 100 National Park Rd, Hopkins, SCOn Saturday, July 20, 2024, the Midlands Chapter of CBS (Carolina Butterfly Society) will participate in a NABA (North American Butterfly Association) count at Congaree National Park near Columbia, South Carolina, to look for mid-season butterflies. Meet at the Harry Hampton Visitor Center (GPS coordinates 33.82984, -80.82343) where we will divide into smaller groups. Some […]
Gum Swamp Road (Jackson, SC)
Kathwood Lakes (meeting location for Gum Swamp Road) 33.33728. -81.84345This is a CBS Midlands Chapter outing to areas near Aiken, South Carolina, to look for the Texan Crescent, Tawny Emperor, Hackberry Emperor and other summer butterflies. Please note that this event is on Sunday, where we will drive along Gum Swamp Road and stop at various locations along the road to explore areas of […]
Southern 8ths Farm (Chesterfield, SC)
Southern 8ths Farm Learning Center 34.79584, -80.15313This is a full CBS field trip that will be to a new location for us in northeast South Carolina, almost to the state line with North Carolina. We will meet our host, Brad Turley, at the GPS coordinates listed below at 9:00 AM. Southern 8ths is located in an area of convergence, where the […]
Marie Poteat’s Property (Jamestown, NC)
Marie Poteat's Property - Guilford County, NC 1111 Bales Chapel Rd, Jamestown, NC, United StatesThe Triad Chapter of CBS will hold a butterfly walk on Saturday, August 17 to Marie Poteat’s property in Jamestown, NC. Of all the triad butterfly reports this year, Maries by far have had the most butterflies. In large part, this is because Marie has spent years reintroducing caterpillar host plants and butterfly nectar plants […]
SI Group Hundred Acre Woods – Goatweed Leafwing (Orangeburg, SC)
SI Group 725 Cannon Bridge Road, Orangeburg, SC, United StatesOn Saturday, September 7, 2024, the Midlands Chapter of CBS (Carolina Butterfly Society) will hold a butterfly walk at the SI Group Hundred Acre Woods in Orangeburg, South Carolina, to look for the Goatweed Leafwing (we believe there is an existing, ongoing colony) and other fall butterflies. There will be a short drive on an […]