The Bayer Insectarium is an
insectarium located within the
Saint Louis Zoo
The Saint Louis Zoo, officially known as the Saint Louis Zoological Park, is a zoo in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri. It is recognized as a leading zoo in animal management, research, conservation, and education. The zoo is accredited by the ...
in
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...
, United States. Having opened in 2000 and designed by David Mason & Associates with a cost of $4 million, this 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
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...
species.
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.
Image:Mexican_sister_underside.JPG, ''Adelpha fessonia
''Adelpha fessonia'', the band-celled sister or Mexican sister, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Panama north through Central America to Mexico. It is a periodic resident in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
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Mexican sister, underside
Image:Gulf Fritillary.JPG, '' Agraulis vanillae''
Gulf fritillary
Image:Cydno Longwing underside.JPG, '' Heliconius cydno''
cydno longwing, underside
Image:Red Postman.JPG, ''Heliconius erato
''Heliconius erato'', or the red postman, is one of about 40 neotropical species of butterfly belonging to the genus ''Heliconius''. It is also commonly known as the small postman, the red passion flower butterfly, or the crimson-patched longwin ...
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red postman
Image:Heliconius hecale.JPG, '' Heliconius hecale''
tiger longwing
Image:Hypolimnas bolina.JPG, ''Hypolimnas bolina
''Hypolimnas bolina'', the great eggfly, common eggfly, varied eggfly or in New Zealand the blue moon butterfly is a species of nymphalid butterfly found from Madagascar to Asia and Australia.
Appearance Race ''bolina''
''H. bolina'' is a blac ...
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great egg fly, male
Image:Idea leuconoe.JPG, '' Idea leuconoe''
paper kite
Image:Gray pansy.JPG, '' Junonia atlites''
gray pansy
Image:Phoebis sennae.JPG, ''Phoebis sennae
''Phoebis sennae'', the cloudless sulphur, is a mid-sized butterfly in the family Pieridae found in the Americas. There are several similar species such as the yellow angled-sulphur (''Anteos maerula''), which has angled wings, statira sulphur ( ...
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cloudless sulphur
File:Chocolate pansy 1.JPG, '' Precis iphita''
chocolate pansy
Image:Great Mormon female.JPG, '' Princeps memnon''
great Mormon, female
Image:Great Mormon male.JPG, '' Princeps memnon''
great Mormon, male
Image:Malachite underside.JPG, '' Siproeta stelenes''
malachite, underside
Notes
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