Butterfly Pavilion
January 2007
My friends Mike and Jeri and I visited the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, CO, which is just down the street from where I live. I've been wanting to check this place out ever since I first moved to the area, and I'd love to go back many more times! The Butterfly Pavilion is something of a museum as well as a nature center and enormous greenhouse, and besides the huge butterfly atrium they also have insect displays and aquatic displays. Not to mention a fabulous gift shop. *grin*
The Pavilion
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Insect Displays |
Plexiglass Beehive |
Leaf Bug |
Hissing Cockroaches. EW. |
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I held Rosie, the resident tarantula. I'm not a huge fan of spiders, but I was surprised at how light and delicate she was.
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Jeri held Rosie too!
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Aquarium |
Aquarium |
Horseshoe Crab
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Lobster
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Starfish
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Giant Starfish
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Mike touching a horseshoe crab
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Mike touching a sea urchin
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"Cheese Grater" sign. Inside joke for my friend Mandi. |
Turtle |
Chrysalis display. These hatch every day. |
The newly hatched butterflies are released twice a day. |
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A few of the many, many butterfly displays. They had some of these for sale in the gift shop for hundreds of dollars.
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This guy got a butterfly stuck on his shirt in the atrium. |
Mike and Jeri taking pictures. |
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Butterfly Pictures |
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Plant and Flower Pictures
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