Monsanto Insectarium
Inside the insectarium | |
Date opened | 2000 |
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Location | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
Coordinates | 38°38′06″N 90°17′31″W / 38.6349°N 90.2919°WCoordinates: 38°38′06″N 90°17′31″W / 38.6349°N 90.2919°W |
Memberships | AZA[1] |
Website |
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The Monsanto Insectarium is an insectarium located within the St. Louis Zoo, in St. Louis, Missouri. David Mason & Associates designed the $4 million, 9,000 square feet (840 m2) facility which opened in 2000. It houses educational exhibits and an active breeding and research facility. The research facility includes a window to the exhibits area and two-way communications so visitors may watch entomologists work and ask them questions. The facility also includes a geodesic flight dome cage, home to numerous rainforest flowers and butterfly species.[2]
The Monsanto 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
- ↑ "List of 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. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
External links
- Media related to Monsanto Insectarium at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website