An insectarium is a live insect zoo, or a museum or exhibit of live insects. Insectariums often display a variety of insects and similar arthropods, such as spiders, beetles, cockroaches, ants, bees, millipedes, centipedes, crickets, grasshoppers, stick insects, scorpions, mantises and woodlice. Displays can focus on learning about insects, types of insects, their habitats, why they are important, and the work of entomologists, arachnologists, and other scientists that study terrestrial arthropods and similar animals.
Overview Some insectariums may include museum displays of mounted insects and exhibits about insects."The New Insectarium in the Zoological Society's Gardens", Nature, Volume 24. May 12, 1881. 38.
A butterfly house is a type of insectarium that specializes in live butterflies and moths. In addition, there are seasonal butterfly gardens on display at many zoos, botanical gardens, nature centers, natural history museums, and science museums.
List of insectariums Public insectariums or insect zoos include:
Africa Algiers Insectarium, Algiers, Algeria
Asia Bangkok Butterfly Garden and Insectarium, Bangkok, Thailand Entopia (formerly Penang Butterfly Farm),(Penang, Malaysia) Gunma Insect World, Kiryū, Gunma, Japan Insect Science Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Australia
Insectarium of Victoria, (Victoria, Australia)
Europe
Insektariumas (Lithuania, Palanga) Stratford Butterfly Farm, Stratford-upon-Avon, England Esapolis, The largest insectarium in the province of Padova, Padova, Italy
North America
Canada Montreal Insectarium, Montréal Newfoundland Insectarium, Reidville, NL Victoria Bug Zoo, Victoria, BC Victoria Butterfly Gardens, Victoria, BC
United States Audubon Insectarium, New Orleans, Louisiana
Bayer Insectarium at the Museum of Life and Science, Durham, North Carolina Bohart Museum of Entomology, Davis, California Butterfly Pavilion, Westminster, Colorado Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, World of the Insect, Cincinnati, Ohio Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden, Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York Henry Doorly Zoo, Butterfly and Insect Pavilion, Omaha, Nebraska Houston Museum of Natural Science, Brown Hall of Entomology, Houston, Texas Insect Adventure, Stillwater, Oklahoma Butterfly Biosphere Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, Utah The Insectarium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monsanto Insectarium, St. Louis, Missouri O. Orkin Insect Zoo, Washington, D.C. Ralph M. Parsons Discovery Center and Insect Zoo, Los Angeles, California InsectZoo, San Francisco, California Detroit Zoo, Wildlife interpretive gallery (aviary, and butterfly garden), Detroit, Portland Insectarium, Portland, Oregon Long Island Aquarium, Riverhead, New York
See also Formicarium
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