The Monarch Program

Location: 450 Ocean View Ave., Encinitas, California (map)
Phone: (760) 944-7113 ; More info: Website

Monarch Program Highlights

Located in Encinitas, CA, The Monarch Program was created in 1990 to foster a growing interest in monarch butterflies. The Monarch Butterfly Program studies the butterfly's unique behavior and follows its migration patterns to the coast of California and to the Transverse Neovolcanic Belt of Mountains west of Mexico City.

Classes and Field Trips

The Monarch Program also conducts classroom field trips in its museum, cultivates plants in a greenhouse, rears butterfly livestock, and hold special events. Our programs in the field include monitoring overwintering habitats, tracking tagged monarchs, monitoring spring and summer milkweed colonies, and studying butterfly species and their host plants.

Butterfly Vivarium

An outdoor eco-biosphere house for butterflies, with waterfalls, ponds, eucalyptus and ficus trees, nectar plants, and chip paths.

Greenhouse

Grows milkweed and host plants for other butterfly species. Located next to the Butterfly Vivarium.

Interpretative specialists offer guided tours, show videos, and answer your questions. The Monarch Program puts on field trips from April through November. During summer, the facilities are open to the public on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.