Tag: Butterfly Pavilion
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Weekend things to do around Denver and beyond: Denver Film Festival and more
Each Thursday, explore Denver’s essential weekend events curated by The Denver Gazette. Dive into cultural experiences and entertainment delights across the city. Whether you enjoy art galleries, pottery, or outdoor sports, there’s something for everyone in Denver’s vibrant cultural scene. To submit an event for consideration, email listings@gazette.com. SUNDAY Laugh your way through the ridiculously funny…
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Weekend things to do around Denver and beyond: Horsecapades at National Western and more
Each Thursday, explore Denver’s essential weekend events curated by The Denver Gazette. Dive into cultural experiences and entertainment delights across the city. Whether you enjoy art galleries, pottery, or outdoor sports, there’s something for everyone in Denver’s vibrant cultural scene. To submit an event for consideration, email listings@gazette.com. SATURDAY-SUNDAY With an amazing history of horsemanship, 76…
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Butterfly Pavilion offers guests a chance to get up close and personal with spiders
The Broomfield nature center is offering more chances to conquer your arachnophobia just in time for spooky season No Barriers. No glass. Just you and the spiders. Spiders are taking over Westminster, Colorado, but it won’t be like the annual tarantula migration or the movie Arachnophobia. Between Sept. 26, and Oct. 31 brave guests brave…
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Butterfly Pavilion releasing hundreds of monarch butterflies Friday
The Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster will release hundreds of monarch butterflies at their large “Wings of the Tropics” conservatory this Friday at 10 a.m. The release is part of the ongoing “Monarch Magic” event which runs through the end of November. The event seeks to educate visitors about the critical role monarchs play in maintaining…
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Walk among hundreds of spiders at upcoming exhibit near Denver
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Sara Stevens was not keen on spiders when she started at Butterfly Pavilion. “My background was marine biology,” said the director of animal collections at the Westminster zoo of invertebrates. “My office had like 200 tarantulas in it. So it was a little stressful at first.” Like so many adults, she harbored what she considered…
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Manitou Springs becoming first municipal pollinator district
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Manitou Springs is taking the “save the bees” conservation movement very seriously, becoming the first municipality to be certified as a Pollinator District. Butterfly Pavilion, a Westminster-based nonprofit invertebrate zoo that runs the Pollinator District program, has worked closely with the city for nearly five years now, even through the pandemic. Amy Yarger, Butterfly Pavilion’s…
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Rally against Park Hill redevelopment draws mayoral candidates, Wellington Webb
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A rally against the proposed redevelopment of the Park Hill Golf Course attracted hundreds in Denver on Sunday, including former mayor Wellington Webb, who sought to portray the fight as a battle between those who have the financial means to push it — and gain…
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Monarch Menagerie with 400 butterflies, Rosie the tarantula stars of the formal Butterfly Pavilion gala
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Rosie the tarantula, 400 butterflies, an Upside-Down Jellyfish and a Thorny Devil Stick Insect were just a few of the unique and special features welcoming 500 guests at the Butterfly Pavilion’s fundraising Butterfly Ball. 1STBANK Center in Broomfield had been transformed into a beautiful world of science and education for the formal gala Sept. 30.…
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Monarch butterfly counts rise in Colorado and beyond, but extinction concerns remain
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An iconic winged beauty feared to be on the verge of extinction was spotted more around the West last year, including in Colorado. In summarizing 2021 findings from its seasonal, decades-old count of black-and-orange-striped monarchs, it was a “surprising and remarkable outcome,” read a recent…