Very good visit. They provide most of details related to butterfly and it's life. Host plants, live cycle. Parking space is good. Rest room also clean and neat. Vidoe is very good. But video area is very small due to rain it was uncomfortable as rain water splash inside. Best time is visit is non rain season. Price for adults 80 and kid 40 Very good visit for one time.

It is a place for any butterfly wanderer and otherwise too for ones who love being close to nature and greenary around. Three of us visiting the park for three days. Sarpita had come all the way from Kolkata with her mother to my home in Pune. We took an overnight bus to reach Belvai. Belvai bus stand is very close to Sammilan Shetty Butterfly Park. We were hosted in Sammilan’s guest house. This was about two Kms from the Park. Coming from an urban hub, looking at this well planned park (for butterflies not us) was overwhelming. The moment you enter the park premises you feel you are in a jungle. The butterfly park is very well planned and executed mostly with indigenous plant species that attracts butterflies to feed and breed around. I got to see and learn of several plant species that I have not seen or known earlier, Clerodendrum, Hopea ponga and Aristolochia indica still stand out in my memory. Since we had two whole days at the park, we were able to do several interesting observations like a weaver ant family devouring a freshly formed chrysalis of emigrant butterfly, a parasitoid caterpillar of Southern birdwing, a mating pair of medus brown, a peacock pansy caught up by a tiny crab spider, two tiny pigmy scrub hoppers bearing the rains out in open, Southern birdwings and several other butterflies enjoying nectar from the lantana an Stachytarpheta, a freshly eclosed yamfly quietly sucking Leea indica sap . However, the breath taking moment for me, was to see the Malabar banded peacock gliding through the park showing off its territory to us! A butterfly you will rarely see in the wild at such close quarters. It kept us on the toe for all three days. The park is visited not only by butterfly enthusiasts like us but would not be wrong to say, the entire population of Beluvai and nearby areas. Families with young kids and elderlies, school children, college students all took pride in moving around and catching minimum of two to five names of butterflies before leaving. This is no less than a magic, creating understanding and sensitivity to every single visitors coming to the park. Every visitor is run through a small presentation on butterfly diversity and behaviour documented right here at the park. This is interesting as any sighting is not ensured/guaranteed in the wild. Nobody will see a yamfly eclose, a tiny larva eating up its own egg shell or a mud puddling behaviour. The park team (Sammilan + college student interning here) take rounds to do presentation as per the crowd influx in preferred language be it Kanadda, Tulu or English. After understanding a little bit about butterflies, the visitors are taken around in the garden to see butterflies and host plants. On request, Sammilan also arranged for a visit to nearby Durga Reserve Forest and Someshwar Wildlife Sanctuary. We got more endemic lifers to our list, Tamil lacewing, Malabar tree nymph, Malabar raven to name a few. The home cooked food by Aunty was such a relief to eating outside food every time we travel. We had both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food options. It was first time I was getting to taste some local delicacies. Not to miss the lovely coffee in pouring rains. Sammilan Sir is very hospitable, we did not feel a thing amiss in the three day stay in Belvai. I bow to this personal interest and endeavour in talking about conservation through butterflies. Coming time will prove, this definitely has a far reaching effects. (Ps: It should not be called a park, it’s all wilderness and madness around with butterflies, especially when you see Papilio Buddha, the Clippers and the Southern Birdwings!!!)

Great place to see varieties of butterflies. Best time to visit is August ,September as there would be maximum butterflies to watch. Mr. Shetty has very good knowledge and is very devoted to conservation. His guided tour and information is marvelous. The video presentation is icing on the cake and leaves one wanting to spend more time at the place. Please visit allotting minimum of 2 hours. Best to contact him in advance and fix the right time to get the most.

The best butterfly park in South India. Beauty of it is, it's a privately owned park with sightings of more than 150sps of butterflies free flying and not closed enclosure. Some notable and amazing species like Malabar Banded Peacock, Autumn Leaf, Malabar Bandrd Swallowtail, South Birdwing and many more can be sighted here. A must visit place if anyone wants to learn and know more about butterflies and to get amazed by the sight of these beauties. Stay is also available with good home cooked food.

Probably anyone visited this place will not visit second time enthusiastically. I was bit disappointed after seeing the place. However Mr. Shetty told me that actual activity was in June - November. Anyway he gave information as much as possible and told me that it was a natural butterfly park. There was no fencing to avoid predators of butterfly. He had made a documentary video of 100 min about the butterfly activity captured in the same park. It was well presented on a TV. That was much informative and you can watch completely provided if you don't have small kids !!! ( Who may get bored after 15 min !! ) . Per person 80/- was a nominal cost which makes it worth if you watch this documentary movie. Lastly, I felt park needs to be improved so that he can attract kids and adults next time too. Being said natural park, doesn't mean that park need not to be well maintained with more flowers. Probably that would attract more butterflies. I felt park was quit small as I hardly moved with limited within 100 steps.

Great initiative Sammilan Sir. Truly a great place to find the winged beauties. The park provides the necessary freedom for the beautiful creatures. They can be found freely flattering around with their colourful wings. It is a natural habitat which provides conducive conditions so that the butterflies of various kinds are attracted to the park. While strolling around the park we can distinctly see butterflies lay eggs, eggs there hatching into caterpillars, the caterpillars turn into pupa and also a beautiful butterfly emerge from a pupa. The park is a home for some of the rare species like the Blue Nawab, Southern Birdwing which is the largest butterfly found in India and is endemic to south India. The Malabar Banded Peacock, considered as India’s 3rd beautiful butterfly and also an endemic to South India can be found here. As a photography lover I really loved this place a lot. A great experience and a memorable one. Its worth the visit

A must visit place in beluvai for all butterfly lovers as this place is home to around 180+ butterfly species. Best time to visit would be during summer season as butterflies come out more oftenly during this time compared to rainy season or winter season (according to indian weather)

Nature lovers paradise! The best time to visit is from june to November, make sure to visit as early to 8.30am as the weather is pleasant and you get to spot the maximum number of butterflies. The southern bird winged butterfly, the state butterfly of karnataka is one of the best things to see here. If you are lucky you will also spot peacocks in the area. Keep your eyes peeled as there are a lot of butter, moths and the like that are just incredible to see. The host Mr. Sammilan has a lot of knowledge and is a an excellent guide in the world of these magnificent beings.

Nice place to visit .. the interns are friendly and they explain well ... The registration cost Rs 80 which has a validity for one year .. Must visit this place . Try to go early before 9 am so that you get to see more species of butterflies.

Great initiative Sammilan Sir. Truly a great place to find the winged beauties. The park provides the necessary freedom for the beautiful creatures. They can be found freely flattering around with their colourful wings. It is a natural habitat which provides conducive conditions so that the butterflies of various kinds are attracted to the park. While strolling around the park we can distinctly see butterflies lay eggs, eggs there hatching into caterpillars, the caterpillars turn into pupa and also a beautiful butterfly emerge from a pupa. The park is a home for some of the rare species like the Blue Nawab, Southern Birdwing which is the largest butterfly found in India and is endemic to south India. The Malabar Banded Peacock, considered as India’s 3rd beautiful butterfly and also an endemic to South India can be found here. As a photography lover I really loved this place a lot. A great experience and a memorable one. Its worth the visit.

Reach by 8.30 am to see huge number of butterflies. Contact Mr. Sammilan in advance so that he can be available to explain about butterflies. He is very nice person and very happy to explain about butterflies. Must visit place nearby Mangalore.

Must visit place for butterfly enthusiasts (even beginners)! Not just butterflies, we can observe good no. of birds, spiders, moths too. U can enjoy natural bliss at less expense n U'll definitely get inspired! 😃 There's washroom and stay facility also. Call and confirm before u visit 😀

Its a beautiful Butterfly Park developed and owned by Mr Sammilan Shetty. You can see lot of butterflies here and Mr Sammilan is a gem of a person with super knowledge about variety of butterflies. He has also made a 40 min documentary on Life of Butterflies. A must must visit place for butterfly lovers.

Wonderful place to visit in proper season. Attended a workshop in the butterfly park in September. Please contact Mr. Sammilan Shetty before visiting.

Very Nice Place, Currently attending a butterfly meet in the park. People who are keen butterfly enthusiast must visit this place and learn from Sammilan on the butterflies endemic to western ghats their host plants etc.. spent four days in and around this park and it's one of the memorable butterfly trips i have done..👍

A beautiful place that displays the core beauty of tulunadu.. and shows us the marvellous creation of nature ... The butterflies. The park opens at 830 in the morning. There are few videos which will be shown to us before visiting the field..Which displays the life cycle of many butterflies in the park which are captured by sammilan Shetty. It is very informative. We were them taken to the field and we were thrilled to get a view of so many species of beautiful butterflies . The best time to visit the place is between August and September. The no of species found in this place is more at this time.and also you'll have lot of goodies to buy like to t shirts and also various photos captured in the field. A new tourist attraction and a must visit place in Mangaluru.

Must visit place, we will get to know about the world of butterfly 🦋, there life cycle, habits etc. Sammilan is too passionate about them. He Has great knowledge about butterfly 🦋

It was an amazing experience in the butterfly park . I learnt a lot from the butterfly park . 🤩🤩. The butterfly park is really awesome . 👌. I recommend everyone to visit this park 🤩🤩👍👌👌👌.

An Awesome place to visit.. The best place to understand about butterflies.. Have a visit.. These are few pictures from the Butterfly Park. Sammilan Sir explains about the butterflies with the presentation!👌👌 Would Love to visit again..

They teach about butterfly 1hr session 80 rupees per person.

This place is overhyped....There are better places to see in Mangalore...most of the time only videos and pictures are shown....the actual field tour is of only 10 minutes....waste of time

Beautiful presentation by Sammilan and had the pleasure to spot many species. Although the weather wasn't very favourable, I'd still recommend a visit to this park.

The place is wonderful. Mr Shetty has vast knowledge of the butterfly species and it's life science. Many varieties of butterflies can be seen flying around. He explains about the butterflies. Good for parents to take their kids.

There is nothing in that park.. it has only Forest and fields.. it's a worst experience going over there ... And the entry fee is also too high...

Had a wonderful experience in the Sammilan Shetty's Butterfly Park... A different world out there in the lap of Mother Nature compared to the world we live in. If U are a nature kid, then this is the place to b in...

Sammilan Shetty's Butterfly Park at Belvai, is a paradise for butterflies, moths, dragon flies, frogs, spiders, colourful flowers, plants and trees. It's a heaven for travelers, scholars, photographers. Wide verity of all of species mentioned above. A beautifully aged house in the premises, tasty traditional, native food and dense green surroundings welcomes you home. Belvai and its surroundings are blessed with many host plants and nectar plants which makes it #ButterflyParadise Host plants/trees Calotropis sp, Musssaenda sp, Citrus medica, Alpinia sp, Zanthoxylum spp, Tamarindus sp, Cosmostigma sp, Flacourtia sp. etc. Sammilan Shetty's Butterfly Park at Belvai is located just 1hr away from Mangaluru city/ Mangaluru Airport and surrounded by many #tourist #traveler #vacation attractions!

Must visit place. Nice place to be with nature and understand a beautiful and vital species called Butterfly which we tend to ignore and think it is insignificant. But it is very important species playing a very important role in nature. Best time to visit this place is between June and early September. Because this is time when butterflies comes down from Western Ghats to this place due to rains. Ideally reach this place by morning 08:00am. After 10:00 it gets hot (during Oct and Nov. During summers it might be terrible and I am not sure if there will be any butterflies then). If possible call up Mr. Sammilan Shetty and he would guide you better. This place also does some kind of work (research) with Mangalore University, I guess. Take a video tour or video introduction also. The introduction was very informative. When I went there, there was Honey also for sale. We bought a few bottles.

Went late like 11am. Not much butterfly. I guess should have gone before 9. Entry costs 80bucks