Butterflies bring comfort to grieving hearts through memorial butterfly releases.

Hospice Bereavement Camps and Funeral Homes have discovered the power of these winged delightful creatures. Symbolizing resurrection, new life, release, and the soul, when butterflies are released at a funeral or memorial a smile will develop behind under tear-stained cheeks.

Days, weeks, even years later, those who released butterflies will see a butterfly flying and wonder if it is a descendant of ‘their’ butterfly.

Shady Oak Butterfly Farm raises butterflies year round. Butterfly orders are shipped for delivery in 24 hours or less. The butterflies are cooled just as nature’s nights cool butterflies. In a semi-dormant state, they simply ‘sleep’ until they are removed from the box and allowed to warm up in daytime temperatures, ready for their release into nature for the first time.

Shady Oak’s butterflies are not wild-collected, depleting nature, but are raised in a laboratory according to USDA requirements. After they have emerged from their chrysalises as adult butterflies, they are released into screened gardens to feed and dry their wings. At that point, they are ready for their release into nature to continue their life and add to the butterfly population of the world.