There are more than 160 gardens in the world that specialize in displaying a wide variety of insects, including butterflies. People enjoy watching bright exotics, and adults show no less interest than children full of delight.
The most famous tropical butterfly gardens
Without a doubt, one of the largest and most memorable are the butterfly gardens at botanical parks located in the tropics. Well-known resort areas provide luxurious park complexes teeming with vegetation, fauna, insects, which feel very comfortable in such places.
The most famous and largest in the world is considered the butterfly garden in Thailand on the island of Phuket. Created a quarter of a century ago, this garden now amazes with the magnificence of its inhabitants: butterflies, moths, dragonflies, wasps, scorpions, ants, beetles. Numerous visitors are amazed at the fantastic sight: the fluttering of many thousands of insects of the most bizarre shapes and sizes.
Fascinating excursions around the blooming and fragrant garden acquaint guests with the full cycle of development of butterflies, allow them to observe an interesting process: the birth of a wonderful creature from a chrysalis.
No less significant is the complex for the protection of these wonderful insects in Sattahip, a small resort town in Thailand near Pattaya. More than a million of these creatures of paradise fly here in a tropical park bounded by nets. Scientists are working to preserve populations of endangered species of butterflies. All of them can not only be examined in detail, but also photographed, and even gently stroked on the velvet back - butterflies are so accustomed to people that they are not even afraid of touch.
In the Malaysian park complex Kuala Lumpur, you can not only see, but also feed the cute inhabitants with a special fruit mixture.
Butterfly Gardens in Europe
Oddly enough, but the world's first butterfly garden was created not in the tropics, but on one of the British Isles in a tomato greenhouse, and in 1977 it was opened to visitors. Since then, gardens for exotic insects have appeared in Germany, Denmark, France. Thanks to a sophisticated automated system, conditions close to tropical are maintained in them.
The largest butterfly garden in Europe is considered to be the Emmen Park (Netherlands). Every week, the garden receives by mail from tropical countries a lot of butterfly pupae, from which these graceful creatures are then derived.
There are similar shows in Russia as well. You can admire the bright lepidoptera in St. Petersburg, where tourists will meet in the garden of live butterflies, which is called "Mindo", as well as in the Crimea, where the most interesting Museum of Butterflies has long been functioning at the Nikitsky Botanical Park.
