Butterfly Adventures

This is Rusty, one of our beloved spiny leaf insects. Rusty unfortunately lost one of her legs in a bad moult a while back. Luckily, spinies are incredibly resilient creatures and have the ability to regrow their legs slowly with every moult if they haven't yet reached adulthood -- her leg is now almost fully grown back (although it definitely looks different from her other legs)!! We are so proud of her🥲. Can you tell which of her legs was the one that she lost originally?

Rusty also has a striking reddish colour. While spinies are typically brownish, they can have a whole range of colours (including green, cream or lichen-patterned), depending on their environment and food plants! Scroll to see how different and brightly coloured she looks compared to one of her other spiny friends.

Brrr… it's getting kind of chilly! 🥶

Butterfly releases stop during the colder months (our last dispatch is at the end of May), but there are still plenty of ways to experience the magic ✨

Whether it’s a butterfly party tent for birthdays, butterfly gazebo for community events and festivals, school incursions that bring hands-on insect learning into the classroom, or our Spiny Leaf Insect Kits, there’s still lots happening this winter!

While we can't release butterflies into the wild during this time, we are still able to run these programmes as our staff are trained in the care of these butterflies and can keep them warm and safe indoors even though it's cold outside.

Come celebrate Mother's Day with us this weekend! See our lovely butterflies up close in our gazebos as a special experience as part of your Mother's Day celebrations.

To all the incredible moms out there: we love you! 💗

As part of our commitment to animal ethics, we close shipments of our butterfly kits when conditions (including temperature) for their development and post-emergence survival become unsuitable. If you've been wanting to order a butterfly release or chrysalis kit, now is the time to do so before the season ends!

↓ See important information on our dispatch dates here ↓

Chrysalis kits**:
Apr 29 - Last dispatch date to non-northern states
May, June, Sep - Northern states only
Aug and July - No dispatches

Butterfly Releases**:
27 May - Last dispatch

Caterpillar kits:
Closed for the season

** Note that these dispatch dates are still subject to changes, and we require daily temperatures to be above 20°C

Butterflies at Haven 🦋 Babies, Toddlers and our 3-Year-Old Kinder room were lucky enough to have a visit from some Monarch Butterflies run by Butterfly Adventures.

School holidays are coming soon! Our Butterfly Adventures incursion programmes are perfect for Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) programmes. Our butterfly and spiny leaf insect incursions cover a range of science topics including life cycles, adaptations, morphology, food chains, and more. Provide an unforgettable learning experience, made fun with imaginative play, storytelling, and up-close encounters with our beautiful insects.

Visit our website (link in bio) or email us at [email protected] to secure your incursion for your OSHC programme.