蝶園

**蝶園**（ちょうえん）または**蝶館**(ちょうかん、)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

### 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