Visit Dale Clark's butterfly farm, Butterflies Unlimited

The next meeting of the Dallas County Lepidopterists' Society will be this coming Saturday, October 10th, from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm and is the "Open House" at Dale Clark's butterfly farm, Butterflies Unlimited, located in Glenn Heights, TX, in southern Dallas county. (Directions in next post.)

While this is a DCLS meeting/field trip, it is also open to anyone who has an interest in butterflies or butterfly gardening, so please feel free to share with friends or other nature organizations.

You'll be able to walk through the flight cage and see free flying native butterflies; check out the "caterpillar greenhouse" with cages of caterpillars of various species of Texas butterflies and moths; and see Dale's collection of butterflies and moths from around the world.

The gardens will be full of migrating monarchs (not unusual to have hundreds flying around), and you'll hopefully get some plant ideas for your own house. We'll have have plant giveaways as well as other butterfly related items. All of this and it's FREE!

Hope to see everyone on Saturday -- and bring your camera as there will be ample opportunity to photo lots of butterflies. Should there be any question as to the weather, be sure to check the Facebook page on Saturday morning or the DCLS website (www.dallasbutterflies.com).

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Directions to Butterflies Unlimited:

The address is 1732 S. Hampton Road, Glenn Heights, TX 75154.

Take I-35E south (roughly 17 miles from downtown Dallas). Exit on Bear Creek Road (exit #412) and turn right (west). Travel two miles to the traffic light at Hampton Road. Turn left on Hampton. The farm is the first driveway on the left, but keep going past the drive and pull into the vacant lot in front of a large aluminum sided building and park there. Walk over, SIGN IN, and get your raffle ticket for the drawings.

Tempting?

Very good Joan, I wish i could go, I hope you will.

I am planning to go. The weather is perfect and this is a once a year event. I think it will be awesome.

I was so happy yesterday when I saw several monarchs in my backyard. Or else it was just one monarch in a frenzy.

Also saw that my birds are starting to return. They went missing for about 3 or so weeks. My feelings were getting hurt. Either something scared them off (did have a crowd of crows one day) or they were out eating berries, etc.

Back to the the topic of the Butterfly Farm, if anyone in Dallas would like a ride, please get in touch.

Wow! Dale's Butterfly Farm is really amazing. And I was making some mental notes (boy, they'll be useless) about a lot of the plants growing there. Definitely going again next year.

I am glad you went Joan, he does have quite a place.

My truck is still in the body shop and my car bought to cover for the truck has a 3 mile range til it gets a head gasket. I am glad you went Joan! Did you take photos?

Sorry. No pictures. One of these days I'll get a new phone with a nice camera.

I know this is an old thread but since it is about the butterfly farm, I thought someone may know how Dale and the farm faired during the tornado last night. Anyone? I pray that he didn't loose everything. It is a wonderful place and his livelihood.

I haven't heard anything, didn't know he was over there.

I haven't heard either, I surely hope he is o.k.

I emailed Dale and he said he is O.K. He said it was close but he and his place were spared, thank God.

Thank you for letting us know Josephine