About Butterfly Adventures

Butterfly Guy Eddie Tsyrlin is doing his best to repopulate the planet with beautiful, homebred butterflies. Stirring and fluttering in his quiet suburban home, the gorgeous winged creatures are destined for freedom and flight, released to celebrate love and life.

Butterfly Adventures began with an entomologist's dream and his desire to share the wonders of the insect world with others. Eddie explains, "butterflies seem to be a perfect way of doing that as they are probably the only insect that people like to touch." As well as supplying the unique Chrysalis Kit for sale, the company organises butterfly releases for weddings and functions and offers educational presentations to schools.

The Chrysalis Kit in its current form is unique to Australia and possibly the world. The kit includes a gold dotted, emerald chrysalis, with instructions on how to nurture it through the transition into a gorgeous monarch butterfly - a memorable and unusual gift!

Butterfly releases are a beautiful way to commemorate a special event and are particularly romantic at weddings. The monarch butterflies released by Butterfly Adventures are native to Australia. After gliding, circling and perching as they orient themselves to their new surroundings, they flutter freely away to join the natural world, where they may live for another six weeks or longer (the 2 day life span is a butterfly myth). Butterfly releases tap into a long tradition maintained by entomologists from far flung lands and times. Winston Churchill was a butterfly lover and often entertained his guests with a butterfly release and Vladimir Nabokov once said that "Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man."

Educational presentations are a favourite with Eddie, who illustrates his points by donning various giant-size costumes to illustrate the butterfly body parts, life cycle and highlight the distinctions between butterflies and moths. As well as a range of butterfly presentations to suit all ages, Butterfly Adventures makes the hop into lessons on waterbugs, which can be brought to the classroom, complete with streams and ponds.