Did you know that there are more than 20,000 types of butterflies worldwide or that butterflies taste with their feet? If you didn’t know these fun facts, you might be interested to know that March 14 is National Learn About Butterflies Day. In addition to reading up about butterflies or watching the documentary “Wings of Life” to celebrate the day, you may also consider visiting some of these wonderful butterfly sanctuaries located near our glamping locations.
Butterfly World, located in Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek, Florida has thousands of live butterflies for visitors to see among six aviaries filled with tropical plants and flowers. Butterfly World is considered the largest butterfly park in the world and has tropical birds and lorikeets there that visitors can feed! Choose your glamping accommodations from cabins, bunkhouses and lodges at Encore Miami Everglades and visit butterflyworld.com for more details on hours of operations and exhibits.
Set within the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Cockrell Butterfly Center is a beautiful immersive walk-through butterfly habitat in a rainforest setting complete with a 50-foot waterfall! More than 1500 butterflies make their home here and in the Chrysalis Corner visitors can see butterflies emerge from their chrysalis and take their first flight. Book a glamping cabin at Thousand Trails Lake Conroe and visit hmns.org/cockrell-butterfly-center for more details for your visit.
At the Huntsville Botanical Garden in Huntsville, Alabama, the Purdy Butterfly House, is a lovely open-air butterfly habitat home to more than 1000 butterflies unique to the southwest. Plan a stay at a glamping cabin or cottage at Thousand Trails Hidden Cove and visit hsvbg.org for more details or plan ahead for a spectacular butterfly release event coming in May!
In Moncks Corner, South Carolina you will find Cypress Gardens which is home to the Butterfly House, a large greenhouse filled with live butterflies as well as birds, an arthropod exhibit and an observation beehive. If you’re glamping at Carolina Shores RV Resort in nearby Myrtle Beach, take the drive to learn about the amazing pollinators that can be found at Cypress Gardens and the Butterfly House.
If you are glamping in the Florida Keys (book a colorful cottage at Encore Fiesta Key or a perfect tiny house at Sunshine Key Tiny House Village), the Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory in Key West has roughly 60 varieties of butterflies, numbering in the thousands flying freely in a rainforest-like setting. Plus, the Learning Center not only has an interesting 15-minute video full of butterfly facts, but there are also other exhibits that detail interesting information about the world of butterflies. For details, go to keywestbutterfly.com.
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