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(English) It was a cloudless midsummer day in 2019 when Siaja Parceaud-May noticed a Booth’s sulphur butterfly that had some “noticeable differences.” She was about an hour north of her home community of Kuujjuaq in Quebec’s Nunavik region with a team of entomologists and researchers from the Montreal Insectarium, learning how to identify and collect butterflies. Along a sandy, cleared ridge toward Ungava Bay, she spotted the peculiar critter that would be sent to Montreal for further analysis. Her hunch turned out to be right. More than a year later, insectarium director Maxim Larrivée wrote to her — confirming that she had discovered a new subspecies of Colias tyche. To her surprise, it would be named in her honour: Colias tyche siaja.

Nous sommes très heureux que Kim Moss, Dr. Diane Debinski et Simone Durney aient enfin sorti leur iBook “Wings that Make Waves” et reconnaissants qu’ils partagent leur iBook avec nous

Avec des listes d’observations des tropiques du Panama aux îles d’Hawaï en passant par Yellowknife dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest du Canada, 2021 a été une année incroyable pour eButterfly. Il ne fait aucun doute que 2021 a encore été une année difficile en raison de la pandémie de covid-19, amenant davantage de personnes à se rendre dans la nature pour trouver du réconfort, de l’espoir et un sentiment de connexion avec les autres. Merci de nous avoir rejoint!

(English) Butterfly walks are not only a relaxing activity, but also an invaluable source of data for science. Join Dr. Federico Riva as he discusses the importance of the checklists recorded in eButterfly for his work: (i) the use of butterfly checklists to understand population changes and inform conservation practices; (ii) the importance of “imperfect detection” – our inability to see all butterflies when we are looking for them – and how we can maximize the number of butterflies that we see at a site; (iii) his current work with eButterfly, that leverages thousands of observations from community scientists to help understand regions of conservation priority across North America.