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  • Wateree River HP & WMA (Eastover, near Columbia, SC)

    Wateree River HP & WMA 15001 Goodwill Road, Eastover, SC, United States
    Midlands Chapter Event

    DATE CHANGE - Originally Saturday, March 8, 2025 The Carolina Butterfly Society Midlands Chapter will hold a butterfly walk on Saturday, March 1, 2025, at the 3,674-acre Wateree River Heritage Preserve and Wildlife Management Area. We will be looking for early-season butterflies, as well as a possible over-wintering Mourning Cloak or Southern Dogface. We will […]

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  • Peachtree Rock and Shealy’s Pond HPs (Brown Elfin – Lexington Co., SC)

    Peachtree Rock HP (back entrance) 33.8334, -81.2012
    Midlands Chapter Event

    DATE CHANGE - Originally Saturday, March 1, 2025 The Carolina Butterfly Society Midlands Chapter will hold a butterfly walk on Saturday, March 8, 2025, at the 460-acre Peachtree Rock Heritage Preserve and, if time permits, Shealy’s Pond Heritage Preserve. Our target species at Peachtree Rock is the Brown Elfin, but we will also be looking […]

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  • Coosawhatchie HP & WMA (Frosted Elfin – Yemassee, SC)

    Coosawhatchie HP & WMA 32.6916, -80.9193
    Midlands Chapter Event

    The Carolina Butterfly Society Midlands Chapter will hold a butterfly walk on Sunday, March 16, 2025, at the 10,879-acre Coosawhatchie Heritage Preserve and Wildlife Management Area. We will look for lupine and Baptisia tinctoria (horsefly weed) and a new population of Frosted Elfin, as well as other early-season butterflies. The walking is mostly on level ground […]

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  • Sumter NF, Enoree District (Whitmire, SC)

    Sumter National Forest, Enoree District - BP Gas Station 3536 Whitmire Hwy, Clinton, SC, United States
    Midlands Chapter Event

    The Carolina Butterfly Society Midlands Chapter will hold a butterfly walk on Saturday, April 19, 2025, to the Enoree District of the Sumter National Forest in South Carolina. Possible species are the Juniper Hairstreak, Pepper and Salt Roadside Skipper, and Common Roadside Skipper, but we will also be looking for other early-season butterflies as well. […]

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  • Wateree River HP & WMA (Columbia City Nature Challenge – Eastover, SC)

    Wateree River HP & WMA 15001 Goodwill Road, Eastover, SC, United States
    Midlands Chapter Event

    The Carolina Butterfly Society Midlands Chapter will hold a butterfly walk on Sunday, April 27, 2025 which will be in conjunction with the Columbia City Nature Challenge. It is our local part of City Nature Challenge, an international four-day competition where cities across the globe compete to record the biodiversity of their urban and surrounding […]

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  • CANCELLED – Sumter NF Long Cane District (Edgefield, SC)

    Lick Fork Creek Parking Lot 33.7298, -82.0407
    Midlands Chapter Event

    CANCELLED - Due to the forecast for rainy and overcast weather all weekend, this trip has been "officially" CANCELLED. The Carolina Butterfly Society will hold butterfly walks on Saturday and Sunday, May 10 and 11, 2025, at the 123,360-acre Long Cane District of the Sumter National Forest in the Lick Fork Lake and Stevens Creek […]

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  • Carolina Sandhills NWR (Hairstreaks – near McBee, SC)

    Carolina Sandhills NWR 23734 US-1, McBee, SC, United States
    Midlands Chapter Event

    The Carolina Butterfly Society Midlands Chapter will hold a butterfly walk on Saturday, May 31, 2025, at the 47,850-acre Carolina Sandhills NWR (National Wildlife Refuge) in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. Our target species will be all the Hairstreaks, including Banded, Coral and King’s, but we will also be looking for other late spring butterflies as […]

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  • Gum Swamp Road (Jackson, SC)

    Kathwood Lakes (meeting location for Gum Swamp Road) 33.33728. -81.84345
    Midlands Chapter Event

    The Carolina Butterfly Society Midlands Chapter will hold a butterfly walk on Saturday, August 9, 2025, to areas near Aiken, South Carolina.  We will drive along Gum Swamp Road and stop at various locations along the road to explore areas of interest (or wherever we see butterflies). Our target species are the Texan Crescent, Tawny […]

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  • SI Group Hundred Acre Woods (Goatweed Leafwing – Orangeburg, SC)

    SI Group 725 Cannon Bridge Road, Orangeburg, SC, United States
    Midlands Chapter Event

    The Carolina Butterfly Society Midlands Chapter will hold a butterfly walk on Saturday, October 4, 2025, at the SI Group Hundred Acre Woods in Orangeburg, South Carolina.  Our target species will be the Goatweed Leafwing (we believe there is an existing, ongoing colony), but we will also be looking other fall butterflies. The walk will […]

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  • RESCHEDULED – Wateree River HP & WMA (Southern Dogface – Eastover, SC)

    Wateree River HP & WMA 15001 Goodwill Road, Eastover, SC, United States
    Midlands Chapter Event

    THIS WALK HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED - Due to the weather forecast for rain, wind, low temperatures and no sun on October 11, this walk has been moved back 1 week to October 18. The Carolina Butterfly Society Midlands Chapter will hold a butterfly walk on Saturday, October 18, 2025, at the 3,674-acre Wateree River Heritage […]

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