Stratford Butterfly Farm

Rain or shine, discover many of the world’s most beautiful butterflies in an exotic environment of tropical blossom with splashing waterfalls and fish-filled pools.

Watch in awe as hundreds of spectacular and vibrantly coloured butterflies fly and feed around you. Open all year. See the amazing lifecycle of a butterfly in action in the Caterpillar Room. Some of the world’s largest and most camouflaged caterpillars are on show with cocoons, giant silk moths and shining pupae hanging on the plants. The Butterfly Farm has the largest live insect display in the Europe. Observe the fascinating and strange in Insect City where there are stick insects, beetles and praying mantids. Marvel at the size of giant millipedes, snails and crabs in the mini-beast section. Get close to the deadly and dangerous behind the safety of glass in Arachnoland, home to the world’s largest spider, rainforest scorpion colonies and the deadly Black widow spider.

Stratford-upon-Avon Butterfly Farm was opened in 1985.  It is housed in a large greenhouse, landscaped with waterfalls, ponds and a wide variety of tropical plants.  Hundreds of exotic butterflies from all over the world fly within this area.  Visitors can walk throughout and observe behaviour and life-cycles at first hand.  Many of the species on display are bred in the Farm, giving visitors the opportunity to see caterpillars of all shapes and sizes.The whole concept of the exhibition is to show live insects behaving as naturally as possible, rather than cases of dead specimens.  Stratford Butterfly Farm is the largest and most comprehensive attraction of its type in Europe.

Special needs groups are catered for and the entire place is wheelchair accessible. However the toilets and changing facilities are in the public toilets about 200m away not on our site.

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