蝶園

蝶の温室セントルイス動物園のモンサント昆虫館
蝶園（ちょうえん）または蝶館(ちょうかん、Butterfly house)は、蝶の鑑賞や繁殖に特化した動物園。
幾つかの蝶園には様々な植物のほか、他種の虫やクモ、サソリなども飼育される。
名称は日本では放蝶園、放蝶温室なども使用されている。

**歴史**
自然物のある温室で生きた蝶を見ることが1970年代からイングランドで盛んになった。
世界初の蝶園の一つに、1988年アメリカ合衆国のフロリダ州・ココナッツクリークに建てられた「バタフライワールド」がある。

**蝶園一覧**
セントルイス動物園のモンサント昆虫館

**Americas**

**USA**
 Ashland Nature Center Butterfly House, Delaware Nature Society, Hockessin, Delaware- Bear Mountain Butterfly Sanctuary, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania- Bioworks Butterfly Garden, Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, Florida- Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, Maryland- Butterfly Conservatory and Insect Zoo, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas- Butterfly Garden, Bronx Zoo, The Bronx, New York- Butterfly Garden, Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts- Butterfly House, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan- Butterfly House, Missouri Botanical Garden, Chesterfield, Missouri- Butterfly House, Whitehouse, Ohio- Butterfly House, Dayton, Ohio Cox Arboretum MetroPark- Butterfly Landing, Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, Massachusetts- Butterfly Pavilion, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California- Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center, Westminster, Colorado- The Butterfly Farm, Birmingham Zoo, Birmingham, Alabama- The Butterfly Place, Westford, Massachusetts- Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center, Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia- Cockrell Butterfly Center & Insect Zoo, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas- Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida- Frederik Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids Township, Michigan- Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory, South Deerfield, Massachusetts- Magic Wings Butterfly House, North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, Durham, North Carolina- Monsanto Insectarium, Saint Louis Zoological Park, St. Louis, Missouri- The Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama, is constructing a butterfly house which is planned to float in the natural lake that the zoo was built on.- Orange County Native Butterfly House,  The Environmental Nature Center, Newport Beach, California- Puelicher Butterfly Wing,Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin- Sertoma Butterfly House, Sioux Falls, South Dakota- Tradewinds Park Butterfly World, Coconut Creek, Florida- White River Gardens, Indianapolis Zoo, Indianapolis, Indiana

**Canada**
 Montreal Insectarium, Montreal, Quebec (with annual exhibit at the Jardin botanique de Montréal)- Niagara Falls Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario- Victoria Butterfly Gardens, Brentwood Bay, British Columbia- Wings of Paradise Butterfly Conservatory, Cambridge, Ontario

**Costa Rica**
 San Jose Butterfly Farm,San José

**Brasil**
  Águias da Serra Borboletário  São Paulo, Brazil

**Europe**
 Collodi Butterfly House, Tuscany, Italy- Golders Hill Park, London NW3, UK. Free admission; open from April until autumn, weekends only at the ends of the season and daily in summer.- Magic of Life Butterfly House, Rheidol Valley, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK- Seaforde Gardens and Butterfly House, Seaforde, County Down, Northern Ireland- Schmetterlinghaus, Vienna, Austria- Vlinderkas Diergaarde Blijdorp, Rotterdam, the Netherlands- Vlindertuin Dierenpark Emmen, Emmen, the Netherlands- Vlindertuin, Knokke, Belgium- Wroclawskie Zoo, Wroclaw, Poland
*Motýlí dům, Žirovice (Františkovy Lázně), Czech Republic

**Asia**
 Penang Butterfly Farm, Penang, Malaysia. Houses some 5,000 butterflies of over 120 species.- Butterfly Park, Bannerghatta National Park, Bangalore, インド. 10,000 sq ft (1,000 m²) circular enclosure.- Singapore Zoological Gardens - The Fragile Forest Enclosure (シンガポール)- Butterfly safari Park, Thenmala, Kerala (ecotourism in インド)- Butterfly garden, Wetland Park, 香港. - Butterfly garden, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, 香港.- 箕面公園昆虫館放蝶園（大阪府箕面市）- 橿原市昆虫館 放蝶温室（奈良県橿原市）- 平和祈念公園清ら蝶園（沖縄県糸満市）- 浦添市立前田小学校蝶園（沖縄県浦添市）- みやこパラダイス（閉館、沖縄県宮古島市）- 多摩動物公園昆虫生態園（東京都日野市）- 足立区生物園（東京都足立区元渕江公園内）- はこね・おだわら昆虫館（神奈川県小田原市）

**Oceania**
  Butterfly Sanctury, Kuranda, Queensland, Australia.

**脚注**

**外部リンク**
 The Entomological Society of America