Make the Butterfly Garden your first stop of the day so you can use your new found skills and knowledge for the rest of your time on the island.
This island attraction will invoke the wonderment of childhood again!
We invite you to see nature through a new set of eyes as you rediscover the Magic of Nature!
Winner of the 2022 ERCA Educational Award for Conservation.
"The Pelee Island Butterfly Sanctuary & Teaching Garden
has a Mission to inspire people to help save our butterflies ​for generations to come." - Cherie 
When you visit this butterfly attraction on Pelee Island Butterfly you will have entered a garden that was not too long ago “A Green Desert”.  This garden is now a place that has one of the most diverse amount of butterfly species in Southern Ontario.  Pelee Island is the most southern most inhabited place in Canada.  One of the great benefits of it’s location is that it has several extra weeks each year for the butterflies to be actively breeding.   The extended season gives visitors the opportunity to visit from May to November to study butterflies and see them developing in person.

Your Butterfly Adventure Begins 
Here!

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** We offer both small group tours and private tours -small & large.  If you can’t find something you are looking for you can call (226) 724-2450.  Please call with special request well in advanced to your actual arrival date if possible.***

Butterfly Tours & Experiences
2025 Dates:  May 1 - October 8 

Features:
  • Hummingbird Success Tour
  • How hummingbirds depend on mosquitoes and spiders.
  • Learn about nest building and habitat.
  • Hummingbird moms and how they juggle multiple broods.
  • learn about their EPIC migration.

Butterfly Tours

Join us for the public tour or arrange for a custom V.I.P private group tour!

This gentle walking tour helps you discover the incredible and fascinating world of butterflies. You will see egg to butterfly transformation cycles. Have you ever wondered how butterflies endure the changing four seasons? You will find out the answer to that question and learn things you never knew you never knew. Come be fascinated by the Pelee Island Butterfly Sanctuary.
Features:
  • Butterfly Life Cycle Private Tour
  • This private tour allows you to dive deeper into the topics you want to know more about.
  • Together we can investigate the specimens that are currently developing under magnification.
  • Learn about the great potential of butterfly diversity that could be thriving in your very own garden at your pace.
Features:
  • Small Group Butterfly Tour.  
  • Depending on the day and what is happening at the sanctuary your tour can be a combination of outside exploration and/or
  • Examining eggs, larvae and chrysalis indoors depending on where the excitement is!
  • Experience in-depth learning
  • Extended question & answer period

Butterfly Macro Photography Private Tours

Short Film Documentary Sessions

Features: 
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  • Butterfly Life Cycle Up Close!
  • This tour allows you to discover and capture some of nature’s most incredible moments using your macro lens.
  • Learn about the great potential of butterfly diversity that could be thriving in your very own garden as you are capturing those amazing shots at your own pace.
  • Click the button below for Macro Photography Tour.
Features:
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  • Short Film Documentary Session 
  • This series is to encourage people to capture our wildlife in videos
  • So much of the wildlife and butterflies have a story to tell, this is the perfect opportunity to use your skills and imagination to capture it! 

  • Come join us in celebrating Nature!  Click the Book Button below.
Features:
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  • Gardening For Moths 
  • Learn about different moths and their host plants
  • Get to know what type of nectar plants attract them.
  • Learn about the great potential of butterfly diversity that could be thriving in your very own garden

Hi, I'm Cherie and I have been fascinated by butterflies for 48 years +.  In 2021 I took a giant leap of faith and started to build a world class teaching garden on Pelee Island .  This garden is following my life-long mission to inspire people to help butterflies and nature for generations to come! 
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 Pelee Island Butterfly Sanctuary and Teaching Garden. Follow my journey here... If you want to hear more about this journey let me know... If you want to help either by volunteering or by donating so I can https://gofund.me/04e668da ​ 

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Pelee Island Butterfly Sanctuary
and Teaching Garden
 
​2875 West Pump Rd.
Pelee Island, Ontario,
​Canada, N0R 1M0

Telephone: +1-226-724-2450
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2022 - 2025 Pelee Island Centre for Butterflies and Nature 
​A Non Profit Organization working with heart to rescue butterflies and help heal our planet!
Pelee Island, Ontario, Canada