Bayer Insectarium | |
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38°38′06″N 90°17′31″W / 38.6349°N 90.2919°W | |
Date opened | 2000 |
Location | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
Memberships | AZA[1] |
Public transit access | 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
The insectarium includes a tropical garden and pollinarium. The gallery (below) illustrates a few specimens from the pollinarium's collection.
- 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
- ↑ "Currently Accredited Zoos and Aquariums". aza.org. AZA. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Zoo's Monsanto Insectarium on schedule, set to open next spring". St. Louis Commerce Magazine. September 1999. Archived from the original on 2006-12-30. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
External links
- Media related to Monsanto Insectarium at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website