The Butterfly House is a specially designed and maintained exhibition of living exotic butterflies and moths, where visitors can enjoy direct contact with some of the most beautiful members of the insect order Lepidoptera from around the world and find out lots of information on butterflies, and their life cycles.
Within the flight area the environment is carefully controlled and monitored to maintain perfect conditions for the live butterflies to live and breed as they would in the wild. A high temperature and humidity is maintained not only to support the beautiful butterflies, but also sustain the exotic plants and flowers needed to enable the butterflies and larvae to feed.
The complete
Come and see for yourself each stage of the complete life cycle of our amazing Butterflies.
Our Resident Iguana
We rescued and re-homed Izzard, he is about 11 years old now and loves showers to cool down and loves a good neck scratch from our keepers.
Buckfast Butterfly Farm
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For more information on conserving butterflies in your area, please contact your local branch of Butterfly Conservation or your local Wildlife Trust.
Our British Butterflies
Being dependent on wild plants and the open countryside butterflies and moths are particularly vulnerable to changes in their environment. Today of course, most of these changes are man made and in recent times many species of butterfly around the world have become first rare, then endangered and finally extinct.
There are many things we can do as individuals to help wildlife conservation, for example, leaving a corner of our gardens to grow wild with uncut grass. You could encourage or even plant the food plants for many of our native butterflies, or perhaps plant an area full of plants rich in nectar to provide food for the butterflies.
To encourage a variety of wildlife you need to grow a selection of plants that are rich in nectar and will attract different kinds of insect to either feed or lay eggs. Good examples are alyssum, aubretia, wallflower, buddleia, verbena, michaelmas daisy, heliotrope, phlox and ice plant.
