Bayer Insectarium
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| File:Butterfly zoo guide.JPG Inside the insectarium | |
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| Date opened | 2000 |
| Location | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Memberships | AZA[1] |
| Public transit access | Bus interchange MetroBus |
| Website | www |
The Bayer Insectarium is an insectarium located within the Saint Louis Zoo in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Having opened in 2000 and designed by David Mason & Associates with a cost of $4 million, this 9,000 square feet (840 m2) facility houses educational exhibits and an active breeding and research facility. It also includes a window to the exhibits area and two-way communications so visitors may watch entomologists work and ask them questions. The facility even includes a geodesic flight dome cage, which is home to numerous rainforest flowers and butterfly species.[2]
The Bayer Insectarium is open every day except Christmas and New Years days. Admission to the zoo and the insectarium is free.
Butterfly collection
[edit | edit source]The insectarium includes a tropical garden and pollinarium. The gallery (below) illustrates a few specimens from the pollinarium's collection.
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Adelpha fessonia
Mexican sister, underside -
Agraulis vanillae
Gulf fritillary -
Heliconius cydno
cydno longwing, underside -
Heliconius erato
red postman -
Heliconius hecale
tiger longwing -
Hypolimnas bolina
great egg fly, male -
Idea leuconoe
paper kite -
Junonia atlites
gray pansy -
Phoebis sennae
cloudless sulphur -
Precis iphita
chocolate pansy -
Princeps memnon
great Mormon, female -
Princeps memnon
great Mormon, male -
Siproeta stelenes
malachite, underside
Notes
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
