Butterfly Farms Encinitas, California. We have come out of our chrysalis here in Encinitas. Open daily 10-4. | Butterfly Farms

Our native butterflies need help. That’s the message Pat Flanagan and Tom Merriman, co-founders of Butterfly Farms, are trying to get out. The Encinitas-based nonprofit organization centers on conservation, education and research of butterflies, much of it in a 3,000-square-foot vivarium, which is filled with dozens of different local species, including the monarch, mourning cloak, swallowtail and cabbage white. On a sunny day, when the butterflies are most active, the enclosure turns into a mag