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Check out this event where you can see 1,500 butterflies take flight

A butterfly rests on a table underneath a tent to avoid the rain at the 2018 butterfly release at Wilshire Trails Park in Gainesville. - photo by Kaylee Martin

05212018 BUTTERFLY 1 — A butterfly rests on a table underneath a tent to avoid the rain at the 2018 butterfly release at Wilshire Trails Park in Gainesville. - photo by Kaylee Martin

There’s something special about seeing 1,500 butterflies released into the sky at once, and that’s what makes the annual Friends of Gainesville Parks and Greenways’ Butterfly Release an event you don’t want to miss.