CANCELED: Blooming Butterflies

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Carolyn Fath

press release: Unfortunately, due to the inability to provide adequate space for physical distancing, Blooming Butterflies and the Home Garden Tour are canceled for 2020. (The gardens that were scheduled for this year's Home Garden Tour will be on the 2021 tour.)

Since it wouldn't be summer without butterflies or home gardens - we're developing some fun programming so you can still get your fix while maintaining appropriate social distancing from other visitors... we're not quite ready to spill the beans about those programs yet, so stay tuned!

10 a.m. - 4 p.m. daily, Thursday, July 16 - Sunday, August 9, 2020.

Admission paid at the door

$8 ages 13 & up; $5 ages 3 - 12; Free ages 2 & under; Free for Olbrich Members

Experience the magnificence of free-flying butterflies while strolling through the tropical Bolz Conservatory. Live butterflies emerge from chrysalises daily in the Conservatory, including low-flyers like the playful yellow and black striped zebras and bright orange julias.

More than a dozen species of butterflies, native to both Wisconsin and the more tropical areas of the southern United States can be seen at various times during the exhibit.

The life span of different butterflies varies from a few weeks to a few months. All flying butterflies are allowed to live out their natural lives in the Conservatory, with food sources remaining for them after the exhibit dates.

Butterfly Action Day: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Friday, July 31, 2020  

No cost to attend or participate, but there is a separate cost to enter Blooming Butterflies.

Join us for a special day with representatives from local monarch conservation organizations! Interactive displays focused on monarch butterflies will highlight what you can do to help the population. Monarchs make one of the longest known insect migration on earth and everyone can make a difference in supporting their spectacular journey!

There are various displays with information and activities about the monarch life cycle and migration. There will be an opportunity to make pollinator seed informational packets and a pollinator fortune teller game for kids! You can also purchase equipment for raising caterpillars.

Monarch Meet-Up

Learn about the plight of the Monarch through Monarch Meet-Up, a new program designed to educate visitors about the declining population of monarch butterflies and challenge visitors to take ACTION in monarch conservation.