Monarch Madness: 3rd Annual Butterfly Festival

Join the Panhandle Butterfly House in celebrating “Monarch Madness!”  The Third Annual Butterfly Festival will be held Friday through Sunday, October 9-11 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Located at 8581 Navarre Parkway on Highway 98 in Navarre, Florida the festival offers fun for the entire family.

Monarch Madness highlights includes educational exhibits, larger-than-life bug displays and guest-speaker workshops that provide an insight into the world of bugs and butterflies and the benefits they provide. 

Kids can make and take fun butterfly-related crafts and have an opportunity to release a live butterfly.  The entire family will enjoy strolling through the vivarium– a screen structure housing hundreds of butterflies and the plants they love.

Carefully timed to highlight the seasonal monarch migration, kids will also be able to participate in tagging monarch butterflies.  “The overwintering population this winter is expected to be small due to below normal rainfall in south Texas and northeastern Mexico. Monarchs are highly dependent on nectar and sources of water to fuel their migration.  Learning how to help monarchs during this critical migration is extremely important” said Theresa Friday, Extension Agent in Santa Rosa County.

Admission is free but donations are encouraged and appreciated.  Only through the generosity of our visitors are we able to provide the community this wonderful outdoor science lab.

For more information visit our website at www.panhandlebutterflyhouse.org or call 850-623-3868.

 Workshop Schedule

• Friday, Oct. 9 at 10:30 a.m.:  Backyard Habitat with Emily Peterson of the Garden Gate Nursery
• Friday, Oct. 9 at 1:30 p.m.:  Santa Rosa Sound: Wet and Wild by Chris Verlinde, Sea Grant Ext. Agent
• Saturday, Oct. 10 at 10:30 a.m.:  Butterfly Bash in Your Own Backyard with Theresa Friday, Ext. Agent
• Saturday, Oct. 10 at 1:30 p. m.:  Big Beautiful Beneficial Bugs by Katie Tankersley, Master Gardener

Contact Information

For more information contact Theresa Friday by email at tlfriday@ufl.edu or by calling 850-623-3868.

All programs and related activities sponsored for, or assisted by, the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are open to all persons with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions, or affiliations.  For persons with disabilities requiring special accommodations, please contact the Santa Rosa County Extension Service at lease five (5) working days prior to the program so that proper consideration may be given to the request.

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