{"id":6191,"date":"2017-10-02T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T13:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=6191"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:55","slug":"butterfly_show_2017","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/event\/butterfly_show_2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Butterflies Are Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"105\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Butterfly-Exhibit-2014-7-supporting-biology-sized-240x105.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Butterfly-Exhibit-2014-7-supporting-biology-sized-240x105.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Butterfly-Exhibit-2014-7-supporting-biology-sized-160x70.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Butterfly-Exhibit-2014-7-supporting-biology-sized-768x336.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Butterfly-Exhibit-2014-7-supporting-biology-sized-400x175.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Butterfly-Exhibit-2014-7-supporting-biology-sized-360x158.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Butterfly-Exhibit-2014-7-supporting-biology-sized.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"dates-saturday-september-30-2017-to-sunday-october-8-2017\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates: Saturday September 30, 2017 to Sunday October 8, 2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"times-900-a-m-to-400-p-m\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Times: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>(on the weekend, lines close at 3:00 p.m. due to volume)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t you love free activities for your family? The Carleton&nbsp;Butterfly Show is an annual event that runs daily from Saturday, September 30, 2017, to Sunday, October 8, 2017, in the greenhouses of Carleton University\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/\">Biology Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some butterflies love to land on colourful clothing or you could just put your hand underneath and they will climb on. So bring your kids or your camera or both and enjoy this exhibit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 9-day show features 1,300 exotic&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5oXHXgZeei4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">butterflies<\/a>, representing 41 different species worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 1,000 area students and 10,000 visitors dropped by the steamy greenhouses at the west side of Carleton\u2019s campus for last year\u2019s Butterfly show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donations are greatly appreciated and necessary to keep the tradition going. You can donate at the event or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurefunder.carleton.ca\/giving-fund\/butterfly-show-giving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contributors to the Annual Butterfly Show are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moths.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Des Rivieres<br>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariobutterflies.ca\/\">Rick Cavasin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22],"class_list":["post-6191","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_audience-alumni","cu_event_audience-anyone","cu_event_audience-carleton-community","cu_event_audience-current-students","cu_event_audience-faculty","cu_event_audience-media","cu_event_audience-prospective-students","cu_event_audience-staff","cu_event_audience-staff-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2017-09-30T09:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2017-10-08T16:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"NB","cu_event_meeting_room":"Green House","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"0","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Usha Shanmugalingam","cu_event_email":"events.letstalkscience@gmail.com.","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6191\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}