EARLY CLOSURE
The zoo will close early at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 28, 2024, for the Thanksgiving holiday.

BUTTERFLY GARDEN

and MICROSOFT POLLINATOR PATIO

ABOUT THE ExHIBIT

 

Butterfly Garden

Open May 25 through September 2, 2024


Take a walk in a beautiful garden while butterflies fly around you! Butterfly Garden is home to hundreds of free-flying butterflies representing species native to North America. You'll learn about the butterfly's life cycle while watching new butterflies emerge from their chrysalises before flying free in the garden.


Microsoft Pollinator Patio

Open year-round


Want to attract beautiful butterflies and other pollinators to your own backyard? This garden is full of ideas and actions you can take on behalf of native pollinators such as hummingbirds, beetles, bees and flies. Before you leave, take a sneak peek at the zoo's Silverspot Butterfly Lab where zookeepers and teen volunteers hatch and raise endangered Oregon silverspot butterflies for release into protected wild habitat.

 

Pollinator Toolkit


 

 

I Am Living Northwest

Pro-pollinator? Join the movement of people like you who care about local wildlife.

Get more pollinator actions tips and inspiration

 

Selecting Plants for Pollinators

A Regional Guide for Farmers, Land Managers, and Gardeners in the ecological region of the Pacific Lowland Mixed Forest Province.

This regional guide is just one in a series of plant selection tools designed to provide information on how individuals can influence pollinator populations through choices they make when they farm a plot of ground, manage large tracts of public land, or plant a garden.

Read the guide

RESOURCES

 

 

Our Mission

Woodland Park Zoo saves wildlife and inspires everyone to make conservation a priority in their lives.

Land Acknowledgment

Woodland Park Zoo recognizes that these are the lands of the Tribal signatories of the Treaty of Point Elliott. We acknowledge their stewardship of this place continues to this day and that it is our responsibility to join them to restore the relationship with the living world around us.


5500 Phinney Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103   |  206.548.2500  |   zooinfo@zoo.org


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