Seminars about butterfly farming

Butterfly Farm and Butterfly Breeder Intern and Internship Program and Seminars

The next seminar is scheduled for April 5 and 6. Fee; $150

Shady Oak Butterfly Farm offers internship programs.

An intern may work from one day to one week at the butterfly farm.

Shady Oak Butterfly Farm offers seminars for butterfly breeding and butterfly farming.

Please contact us if you are interested in either program, butterfly farm internship or butterfly breeding seminar.

Topics and activities covered in both the internship and seminar programs:
butterfly care, egg production, larvae production, pupae pinning, eclosing methods, lepidoptera disease identification and prevention,
packing and shipping, artificial diet, hand-pairing, plant propagation and production, butterfly farm layout,
permit application, marketing, farmer networking, sources for supplies, and more.

Seminar size may range from a one-person seminar to groups of forty seminar attendees.

You are welcome to bring your camera to take photos as you walk through the butterfly farm and butterfly farming operation.

Scroll down for photos of interns at work and areas of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm.

Prices are located at the bottom of this page.


Latoya, from Jamaica, with the farm family.	Adult butterfly care & Feeding Monarch butterflies.	Sterilizing eggs and caring for hatchling larvae.

Latoya feeds larvae in the Larvae Laboratory.	Only a few species are fed artificial diet.	Painted Lady butterflies are the primary species raised on artificial diet.

Milkweed is grown in six greenhouses to feed Monarch and Queen butterflies.	300 pupae can be 'pinned in 20 minutes.	Butterflies are emerged where predators and parasitiods cannot harm them.

Latoya checks Monarch butterflies for Ophryocystis elektroskirrha, Oe.	Latoya releases butterflies into the 'apartments' or screened gardens.	Julia butterflies 'sun' in the apartments before shipping.

USDA APHIS ppq526 permits are required to ship butterflies across state line.	Latoya collects butterflies to ship for a butterfly release.	Butterflies are carefully packed for safe shipping to their release location.

Butterfly Farm Seminar Prices:
One day seminar;
$250 per person for a one to three person all-day seminar.
$200 per person for a four to five person seminar.
$150 per person for group seminars of over six persons.

Butterfly Breeding Intern Prices:
Internship programs may be scheduled for one to five day internship length.
$250 per intern for day one.
$200 per intern for day two.
$150 per intern for day three, four, and five.
If the intern wishes to go beyond five days, arrangements may be scheduled for longer internship periods.