Every year's zoo campaign is based on a major project. This year's was the Skyfari, another entry, but last year's was the elegant little Butterfly and Insect Pavilion. The glass part is the small tropical area aflutter with moths and colorful butterflies, most notably the hard-to-photograph beautifully iridescent blue morpho. Then one walks past a laboratory area hatching more butterfly chrysalises, glass panels of bees, into another large room with a horseshoe of other insect exhibits.
Two deadlocks of sliding-door spaces at entry and exit are so careful inspection insures that no one lets out or carries out butterflies. A small horseshoe path curves through the tropical foliage thick with flowers. I like the exotic water lilies.
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Here are several of the delicate beauties:
Three of the photos are of the blue morpho, everyone's favorite. The blue morpho chrysalises look like shiny enameled jade, seen at the left--the only green ones--in the hatching area between the butterflly section and the other insects.
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