MOLBAK'S BUTTERFLY GARDEN
and MICROSOFT POLLINATOR PATIO
ABOUT THE ExHIBIT
Molbak's Butterfly Garden
Closed for the season
Take a walk in a beautiful garden while butterflies fly around you! Molbak’s Butterfly Garden is home to up to 500 free-flying butterflies representing at least 15 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
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.
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RESOURCES
Saving Northwest Butterflies
Giving endangered butterflies a headstart before releasing into protected Northwest coastal grasslands.
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BEE HOUSE TIPS
ABOUT PESTICIDES
PLANT GUIDE
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Butterfly Identification Guide
See the most common species in the Butterfly Garden.
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