European Butterflies Group does not plan or run events itself but rather encourages individuals and organisations to plan trips and conferences that are beneficial to the aims of the European Butterflies Group.

Trips shown below are therefore not "holidays" but have some element of lepidoptera conservation or research work.

Trip reports are published in the regular European Butterflies Group newsletters.

Forthcoming Trips are advertised through the regular European Butterflies Group newsletters. Please contact European Butterflies Group should you wish to promote a Trip on this page.

2024 ~ EBG AGM

The papers and proceedings from the AGM held on 26th October 2024 may be downloaded below.

• BC-EBG Treasurer's Report 2023-2024
• EBG AGM minutes
• EBG AGM Chair's report

2023 ~ EBG AGM

The papers and proceedings from the AGM held on 21st October 2023 may be downloaded below.

• BC-EBG Treasurer's Report 2022-2023 target="_blank"
• EBG AGM minutes
• EBG AGM Chair's report

The powerpoint slides from Roger Gibbons's talk “They may fly together and they may look the same but ….”, can be seen here.

2021/2022 ~ EBG AGM

• The 2021 AGM was held on the 19th March 2022 by zoom video conference and is available to see on BC's YouTube channel here. The video includes a presentation by Sam Ellis, Chair of Butterfly Conservation Europe entitled "Promoting International Conservation Action".

• BC-EBG Treasurer's Report 2021

Click here for AGM papers 2020 - 2014

Please contact European Butterflies Group if you would like the European Butterflies Group website to show any forthcoming conferences here.

The sixth international symposium on the Future for Butterflies & Moths will be held in Wageningen, Netherlands from the 3rd - 5th April 2025.

The preliminary programme can be consulted online, for more information see the Dutch Butterfly Conservation (De Vlinderstichting) website here, and for the conference programme see here.

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24th European Congress of Lepidopterology - 18th - 23rd August 2025, Svat Jan pod Skalou, Czech Republic
See here for more information more details will be available nearer the date.
A list of previous congresses can be consulted here

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Butterfly Conservation's ninth International Symposium is to be held at Wyboston Conference Centre, Bedfordshire, UK from 13 - 16 April 2023 on the theme: Conserving Lepidoptera in a Changing World.

The Symposium will include the latest science on the ecology of butterflies and moths, and how to conserve them and their habitats in the face of numerous drivers of change.

Keynote speakers include Professor Nick Haddad from Michigan State University, author of The Last Butterflies, which describes his research into some of the US's rarest and most threatened butterflies, and Dr Eva Knop from the University of Zurich, a leading researcher into artificial light at night and the ecosystem services Lepidoptera provide society.

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International Symposium: Future of Butterflies in Europe V - 8th & 9th April 2021


You can watch the presentations from the Dutch Butterfly Conservation (De Vlinderstichting) 5th international online symposium on the Future of Butterflies in Europe, on YouTube here: https://www.vlinderstichting.nl/futureofbutterflies/programme


International Symposium: Future 4 Butterflies in Europe

Papers from the Dutch Butterfly Conservation (De Vlinderstichting) 4th international symposium on the Future of Butterflies in Europe (held 31st March - April 2nd 2016) can be found here)

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29th - 30th June 2013 ~ International conference European Butterflies Group and the association Proserpine

In June 2013, the European Butterflies Group, together with the association Proserpine held an International Conference in partnership with the Mus um National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, in Digne-les-Bains (France). The conference was entitled 'The butterflies of France and the state of knowledge with a perspective of conservation'. This event also marked 20 years of the association Proserpine. See here for the presentations.

The Awards are the creation of Brian Marsh OBE, chairman of the Marsh Charitable Trust, who wanted to support areas such as conservation and volunteering.

The Marsh European Lepidoptera Award was presented for the first time in 2009, no awards were made during the Covid pandemic, the last Award was made in 2022 to Professor Josef Settele.

The scheme was run in partnership with Butterfly Conservation, and the European Butterflies Group committee, the Award aimed to recognise the efforts of those whose work had had a major and positive impact on butterfly and moth conservation within Europe.

See here for additional information:
https://www.marshcharitabletrust.org/award/marsh-european-lepidoptera-award/

Recipients of the Marsh European Lepidoptera Award:
2022 Professor Josef Settele
2019 Ole Karsholt
2018 Professor Constanti Stefanescu
2017 Professor L szl R kosy
2016 Rudi Verovnik
2015 Miguel Lopez Munguria
2014 Chris Van Swaay
2013 Professor Ilkka Hanski
2012 Christer Wiklund
2011 Tristan Lafranchis
2010 Lazaros Pamperis
2009 Dr Otakar Kudrna

The photo competition that we have run for quite a few years now continues to attract plenty of entries and the Calendar continues to be popular - all copies of recent calendars were sold. A big thank you to all who submit photographs.

Anne Spencer is organising another competition for the 2026 European Butterflies Group Calendar and requests entries by September 1st 2025.

Please do not send more than 3 photos per individual. Photos should of course be sharp. They should also be JPEG files only, with a minimum of 1500 pixels on the long edge. We would like a bit of information about the butterflies – English and scientific names, where/when they were photographed, and any other relevant information.

Please send photographs to Anne Spencer rhoslan.anne@gmail.com by September 1st 2025.  We often have a use for butterfly photos for our European Butterflies Group website and we would like members who submit photographs to give us permission to use them for European Butterflies Group activities.