Everglades Butterflies Photo Exhibit

January 6, 10:23 PMMiami Travel ExaminerGeorge Leposky

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Interspecies interaction – human
and gulf fritillary butterfly
© George Leposky

An exhibit of photographs of butterflies that live in Everglades National Park is on display during January at the park’s Ernest F. Coe  Visitor Center near Homestead, and this coming Saturday – January 10 – is the best time to see it.

That day, at an opening reception for the exhibit, members of the Miami Blue Chapter of the North American Butterfly Association (NABA) will be on hand starting at 1 PM in the native plant garden adjacent to the Coe Center to help visitors identify native plants that attract butterflies.  Also, the  exhibit’s photographers will be available to answer visitors’ questions about butterfly photography.

At 2 PM, park superintendent Dan Kimball and NABA members will present a program on the butterflies of Everglades National Park.

New list of butterflies

At the reception, a new, revised Butterfly List for Everglades National Park will be introduced. The previous list, compiled in 1980 and long out of date, has been updated by lepidopterist Mark Salvato of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, park scientists and naturalists, and the Miami Blue Chapter of NABA.

The photo exhibit features the work of NABA member photographers Jamie Bernard, Lisa Blackwelder, Ron Nuehring, Bill Perry, Hank Poor, Laura Schrier Coe, and Mickey Wheeler of Miami-Dade County;  Michelle Wisniewski and Jim Spencer of Monroe County; Linda Cooper of Haines City; and Holly Salvato of Vero Beach.    

More than 90 species of butterflies are present in Everglades National Park.