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ESBC 2026 Save the Date!

The 2026 Entomological Society of British Columbia conference and annual general meeting will be held October 16-17, at the Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia. Check our meeting page for more details as they are announced.

Landscape photo with farm equipment in foreground and the Vaseux Cliffs in the background.

South Okanagan Butterfly and Dragonfly Counts

The counts will run the last weekend of June with the Butterfly Count on Saturday June 27 and the Dragonfly Count on Sunday June 28. We’ll be counting in the Vaseux Lake Christmas Bird Count Circle (here). Depending on turnout, we’ll be splitting into groups and trying to cover as much of the publicly accessible land as we can. Much like a Christmas Bird Count, the idea is to keep detailed lists of the abundance and richness of the species encountered. We also hope to log as many individuals as we can on iNaturalist. 

Tyler Nelson and Nathan Earley will compile the results at an evening count up (location and time TBD) and will summarize the data for everyone once we have it all collected. We hope that the count will be a fun opportunity for us to get together in one place and find some fabulous bugs.

If you’re interested in participating in either count, or if you would like to be kept in the loop regarding the results, please fill this Google Form or email Nathan or Tyler expressing your interest. If you have any questions, we’d be happy to answer them.

A new entomological society of British Columbia (ESBC) t-shirt design. The design features a adult dragonfly perched on cattail, and below the water a dragonfly nymph perches on the same cattail. Watching from behind a rock is a giant waterbug.

New T-shirt Design!

We are excited to roll out a new t-shirt this year. We are working with a local artist to produce a new design. The current mockup the new t-shirt is above. The new shirts and other new merch will be available for purchase at this years meeting.