蝶園

蝶園または蝶館は、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。

1. 歴史
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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。

2. 蝶園一覧
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2.1. Americas
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2.1.1. USA
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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, [1], 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

2.1.2. Canada
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Montreal Insectarium, Montreal, Quebec 
Niagara Falls Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario
Victoria Butterfly Gardens, Brentwood Bay, British Columbia
Wings of Paradise Butterfly Conservatory, Cambridge, Ontario

2.1.3. Costa Rica
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San Jose Butterfly Farm,San José

2.1.4. Brasil
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[2] São Paulo, Brazil

2.2. Europe
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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 , Czech Republic

2.3. Asia
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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  circular enclosure.
Singapore Zoological Gardens - The Fragile Forest Enclosure 
Butterfly safari Park, Thenmala, Kerala 
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
橿原市昆虫館 放蝶温室
平和祈念公園清ら蝶園
浦添市立前田小学校蝶園
みやこパラダイス
多摩動物公園昆虫生態園
足立区生物園
はこね・おだわら昆虫館

2.4. Oceania
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[3], Kuranda, Queensland, Australia.

3. 脚注
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4. 外部リンク
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[4]