蝶園

蝶園（ちょうえん）または蝶館(ちょうかん、英語: Butterfly house)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^[1]、放蝶温室^[2]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,^[3]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,^[4]San José

Brasil

• Águias da Serra Borboletário São Paulo, Brazil

Europe

• Collodi Butterfly House^[5], 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^[6], Rheidol Valley, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
• Seaforde Gardens and Butterfly House^[7], Seaforde, County Down, Northern Ireland
• Schmetterlinghaus^[8], 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^[9], 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）^[1]
• 橿原市昆虫館 放蝶温室（奈良県橿原市）^[2]
• 平和祈念公園清ら蝶園（沖縄県糸満市）^[10]
• 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.^[11]

脚注

1. ^ ^{a b} 放蝶園 - 箕面公園昆虫館
2. ^ ^{a b} 放蝶温室 | 橿原市公式ホームページ（かしはらプラス）
3. ^ Puelicher Butterfly Wing
4. ^ San Jose Butterfly Farm
5. ^ Collodi Butterfly House
6. ^ Magic of Life Butterfly House
7. ^ Seaforde Gardens and Butterfly House
8. ^ The Vienna butterfly house
9. ^ Penang Butterfly Park, Blog of the Penang Butterfly Farm
10. ^ 清ら蝶園｜公益財団法人沖縄協会（公式ホームページ）
11. ^ Australian Butterfly Sanctuary

外部リンク

• The Entomological Society of America