Butterfly trip on August 13th – learn about butterflies and butterfly plants

A butterfly tour will be organized at the Riihimäki Butterfly Park on Wednesday, August 13th from 17 pm until 18.30 pm. The tour will introduce you to butterflies and important plants to butterflies, guided by experts. Admission to the event is free.

Participate in person or via live video

You can participate in the event on site at the Butterfly Park, located in the Juppala district at Paavolantie 4. It is also possible to follow the tour live on YouTubeor Facebook. However, live streaming is an experiment, and the event organizer primarily recommends participating on site.

The butterfly tour is organized in cooperation with the Riihimäki Region Nature Conservation Association, the City of Riihimäki and the Finnish Butterfly Society. On-site guides will be butterfly enthusiasts Markku Savolainen from Loppi and Laura Rostedt from Riihimäki, a representative of the city's parks department and activists from the nature conservation association.

About 20 butterfly species have been observed in the butterfly park.

The butterfly park is a place where you can observe Finnish butterflies and moths in a meadow-like landscape. To the park, there has been planted a variety of plants for butterflies to eat and colorful flowers, which has improved the butterflies' living conditions.

Around 20 common butterfly species have been observed in the park. In late summer, it is possible to see the most spectacular butterflies, such as the damselfly, thistle and admiral butterflies.

Due to the cold and rainy spring, the butterfly summer has been low this year. So, in late summer, butterflies are busy flying and preparing new generations for next summer.

A respected and award-winning park

The Butterfly Park has been awarded the Green Flag Award, which is given to well-maintained and managed green areas.

The park area has information signs about butterflies and a butterfly poetry trail. In addition, the theme park has a butterfly-themed playground, exercise equipment, a balance track, a hammock and a picnic table.

Contact information

Tarja Heikkonen
Chair
Riihimäki Region Nature Conservation Association
tel. 044 989 8191
weak.tarja@gmail.com

Sundman Päivi (available from August 6th)
City gardener
Technical industry
The city of Riihimäki
tel. 040 485 9622
paivi.sundman@riihimaki.fi