🏝️Lorica's Butterfly Breeding Farm

Lorica's Butterfly Breeding Farm is a small, working butterfly breeding operation in Boac, Marinduque. Listed on Google as a "farm," OPERATIONAL, with two ★5 ratings — and that thin online footprint is, in this case, the most honest fact about it. There is no Facebook page, no website, no published travel-blog write-up that we can find. What there is, is a real Marinduqueño family raising butterflies for the same supply chain that has made Marinduque the source of the majority of the Philippines' international butterfly and pupae exports (per the simpol.ph "Wings of Change in Marinduque" feature, which surveys the province's butterfly industry as a whole — towns like Boac and Gasan supplying clients in the U.S., Europe, and New Zealand).

What it is

A breeding farm, not a polished walk-through garden. The four public photos on Lorica's Google listing all show butterflies inside plastic breeding crates — red-and-black species photographed through the mesh — which is what an actual working butterfly breeding setup looks like. If your mental picture of a butterfly farm is the netted-walk-in-with-flowers experience that Marl Insects and Butterfly Culture (also in Boac) offers, set expectations differently for Lorica's: smaller, more behind-the-scenes, more about the husbandry than the spectacle.

When it's open

Hours per Google: Monday–Friday 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM, Sunday 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM, Saturday CLOSED. The long evening weekday hours are unusual for a tourist attraction and consistent with a working farm whose primary customers are export-side B2B rather than walk-in tourists. Call ahead — the family may be in the middle of feeding, releasing, or shipping when you arrive, and a phone call lets them shape the visit around what they're already doing that day.

What Visitors Say

Two Google ratings, both ★5 — Denmark Cruzado (February 2026) and Angelo Llover Historillo (November 2024). Neither left written commentary; the ratings stand alone. Two five-star ratings is a small but unanimous signal — for context, Marinduque's other operating butterfly farm (Marl Insects) sits at ★4.8 from eight reviews. With a sample this small, treat the rating as encouraging rather than conclusive, and judge the visit by what you see when you get there.

What to Know Before You Go

Reach the farm at +63 923 865 6413 (cellphone — published on the property's Google listing). Use it before you go: confirm whether they're receiving visitors that day, ask about access to the breeding crates and what the visit will and won't include, and ask whether there's a courtesy fee for the time taken away from farm work. Saturday is the published closing day; don't drive out then.

From the Boac Poblacion the property is roughly a few minutes outbound — Google places it within Boac proper, without a specific street name on the public listing, so a phone call before you set off is the practical way to find the gate.

Where It Sits

Lorica's is in Boac, the provincial capital — the same municipality as Marl Insects and Butterfly Culture, which is the better-known, better-staffed walk-through butterfly farm at Cawit Pier Road. The two are not the same kind of stop: Marl is a 30–60-minute educational visit with souvenirs and a netted garden; Lorica's is a smaller drop-in at a working breeding operation. Travelers serious about Marinduque's butterfly industry can do both in a half-day — Marl for the visitor experience, Lorica's for a closer look at the production side — but if you only have time for one and want the polished-attraction experience, Marl is the safer pick.

Booking and Contact

- Phone: +63 923 865 6413 (cellphone; published on Google) - Hours: Mon–Fri 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM, Sun 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM, Sat CLOSED (per Google) - Address: Boac, Marinduque (no specific street on public listing — call ahead for directions) - Coordinates: 13.3914° N, 121.8373° E - Facebook / website / Instagram: none surfaced as of mid-2026 — phone is the canonical channel

Why to Consider

If you want to understand how Marinduque's butterfly export economy actually works — not just the tourist-friendly garden version — Lorica's is the kind of small, family-run operation that adds context to that story. It's not a polished destination. It's a real working farm, and the visit takes that shape. For travelers who already know the headline ones (Marl Insects, the Bila-Bila Festival in May), this is one of the quieter places where the same industry happens. The two five-star ratings on Google are encouraging; the lack of any published reviews, blog posts, or travel-writeups means you'll be among the first visitors to share what the experience was actually like. If you go, send word back.