Monsanto Insectarium
Inside the insectarium
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Date opened | 2000 |
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Location | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
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Memberships | AZA[1] |
Website | www |
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.
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Adelpha fessonia
Mexican sister, underside -
Agraulis vanillae
Gulf Fritillary -
Heliconius cydno - Cydno longwing, underside
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Heliconius erato
Red Postman -
Heliconius hecale
Tiger Longwing -
Hypolimnas bolina
Great Egg Fly, male -
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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
External links
- Media related to Monsanto Insectarium at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website