Make the Butterfly Garden your first stop of the day on Pelee Island!  You will be so glad you did, as you can use your new found skills and knowledge for the rest of your time on Pelee Island.

This Pelee 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 

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 in the garden.   The extended growing season not only is an attraction to the butterflies but also gives visitors the opportunity to visit from May to November.   It is such an amazing gift to see this conservation project thriving and to study butterflies and see them developing in person.

Your Butterfly Adventure Begins 
Here!

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** This island attraction offers both small or large group tours as well as private tours.  Can’t find something you are looking for? Or you run into issues planning your visit call (226) 724-2450. (During tour times 10am-4pm during June-August the phone May go to the answering service if I am with a group.  Please call with special request well in advanced to your actual arrival date if possible as this attraction focuses on small educational tours. 

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

Features:

• Hummingbird Success Tour
• Learn about how dependant hummingbirds are on mosquitoes and spiders.
• Learn about nest building and habitat.
• Hummingbird moms and how they juggle multiple broods.
• Learn about their EPIC migration & how Pelee Island ties into their success.
• learn how to make your garden an irresistible attraction for the hummingbirds.

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Butterfly Tours

Join us for a public tour or arrange for a custom V.I.P private group tour of this butterfly attraction!
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This gentle walking tour helps you discover the incredible and fascinating world of butterflies and what attracts them to a habitat.   Learn about the amazing transformation from the egg to the butterfly.  Have you ever wondered how butterflies endure the changing four seasons? 
​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  from the garden under magnification.
• Find what their attraction was to the garden?
• Learn about the great potential of butterfly diversity that could be thriving in your very own garden at your pace.

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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.
• Examining eggs, larvae and chrysalis indoors depending on where the excitement is!
• Experience in-depth learning
• You will have opportunities to ask questions so that you can make your garden an irresistible attraction for butterflies.

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*Butterfly Macro Photography Private Tours

*Short Film Documentary Guided Specialty Tour

*Gardening for Moths Tour

Features: 
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• Butterfly Life Cycle Macro Photography Tour.
• 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.

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Features:
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• Short Film Documentary Guided Tour
• This series is to encourage people within the film industry to capture our wildlife in videos, films and short documentaries.
• Telling the story of our Conservation success is front and centre to the mission of this garden.
• 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.

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Features:
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• Gardening For Moths Tour
• Learn about different moths and the important role they play in the ecosystem.
• What is the attraction that moths have to certain plants?  Get to know what type of nectar plants attract them and what plants do they lay eggs on?
• Learn about the great potential of butterfly diversity that could be thriving in your very own garden

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Hi, I'm Cherie and  butterflies have been a passion 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 day to day journey on Facebook.  If you want to help either by volunteering or by becoming a sponsor you can donate via e-transfer to [email protected] or via the GoFundme at https://gofund.me/04e668da ​