How do you not scare the butterflies when you bring them here?
The butterflies in Carleton’s Butterfly Show come to Canada while they are in the pupae phase of their lifecycle. This is a resting stage where they are transforming into butterflies. Once they arrive to Carleton, the pupae are put in the nursery where they emerge as butterflies before being moved into the greenhouse. Check out this video to see our Greenhouse Manager, Ed Bruggink, unpack a shipment of pupae received for the show: https://carleton.ca/biology/annual-butterfly-show/who/.