Monarch Festival
Learn about monarchs, do activities, make crafts, and see an insect petting zoo. Get tickets here. Cost: $15 per adult / $13 per kid ages 4-12 / free for kids Continue Reading
Monarch Monitoring
Stop by for a walk through a prairie and practice protocol from the Monarch Larvae Monitoring Program. All ages are welcome.
Monarch Monitoring Meet Up
All ages are welcome to become community scientists, walk through the prairie, and monitor larvae.
How to Raise Monarchs
Learn about monarchs and how to raise them and see some live caterpillars and possibly butterflies.
Monarch Monitoring Meet Up at Nature
Join the staff in monitoring the monarch population on a walk through the prairie.
Monarch Monitoring Meet Up
Join the staff to walk around the prairie and look for monarchs using the Monarch Larvae Monitoring Program. Open to all ages.
Monarch Magic Guided Hike
Walk the prairie and river trails and learn more about the monarchs that are beginning their migration to Mexico. Register here.
Adopt a Monarch at Burpee
Raise a monarch from Burpee. Larva will be ready to pick up Friday, Saturday and Sunday until August 30th. It is free with museum admission and free to members. Sign Continue Reading
Monarch Release & Insect Festival
Enjoy a day with nature at Burpee as Butterflies circle your head! Families get to tag and release their own Monarch Butterfly and wish it well on its migratory journey Continue Reading
Monarch Fiesta
Celebrate monarchs migrating to Mexico. Live monarch tagging, pollinator habitat planting, scavenger hunt, face painting, crafts. Each kid gets to release a monarch. Register here.
