The experience offers visitors the chance to walk among hundreds of free-flying butterflies

PHOENIX — The Desert Botanical Garden’s Majestic Mariposas experience invites visitors to wander a magical pavilion where they can see more than 1,000 butterflies up close in the Cohn Family Butterfly Pavilion.

“We will be having monarchs back this fall, and at any given time, there's about 1,200 to 1,500 butterflies in the exhibit,” said Glaiza Boccelli, a special exhibit supervisor at the Desert Botanical Garden, in an interview with ABC15. “We get shipments...every week..."

Desert Botanical Garden Hundreds of monarch butterflies are typically in the exhibit at any time.

You can also watch butterflies emerge from chrysalis, which will add to the number of butterflies each week, as you read

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