Pesticide-Free Gardening

Butterflies are extremely sensitive to pesticides and other chemicals.  At the Butterfly Pavilion, we keep our plants healthy and attract natural predators to keep pest populations low.

There are few places where a visitor can wander a tropical rainforest and explore a shortgrass prairie in a matter of minutes.

Our plant collections provide food and shelter for our butterflies and other invertebrates as well as excellent opportunities to learn about gardening and biology.

Conservation informs our horticulture programs - from sustainable gardening to education about the importance of habitat diversity worldwide.

Dynamic Duo

Butterflies and plants have been partners for millions of years. Plants provide nectar for butterflies, and in turn, butterflies transport pollen from one plant to another, allowing the plants to set seed.

Butterflies also use plants as egg-laying sites. Caterpillars munch their host plant's leaves, then find safe branches to metamorphosize inside their chrysalids.


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If it creeps, crawls, slithers, flies, wiggles or squirms, chances are you'll find it here. Come for the butterflies, then stay for the spiders, scorpions, millipedes, centipedes, horseshoe crabs, sea stars, and walking sticks. Love to learn? We also offer youth education programming, volunteer opportunities and lifelong learning. Only 15 minutes from downtown Denver. Butterflies are just the beginning.


 

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