Australian Butterfly House, Sanctuary, Farm, Garden, World, Butterfly Watching Tours and Tourist Attractions
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Listed Below are the best Australian Butterfly House, Sanctuary, Farm, Garden, World, Butterfly Watching Tours and Tourist Attractions.
Some of Australia's most amazing attractions are the live Butterfly display facilities that are know as Butterfly House, Sanctuary, Garden, World and Farm.
You can walk into butterfly aviaries housing the most diverse and beautiful collections of Australia's huge range of spectacular butterflies in a natural settings.
Butterfly Houses and Sanctuaries offer visitors the opportunity to walk amongst the hundreds of fluttering butterflies in tranquil surroundings and see their colours, shapes and beauty. You become their world as they flutter gently about and may land on your clothes, head, hands, back, shoulders or arms. Expert guides are available to answer your butterfly questions and explain the butterfly life-cycle and how they are bred and maintained in the facility. Many of these educational attractions at various locations around Australia have more than 20 species on display at any one time.
Various locations display the range of temperate and tropical butterfly species. Seasonal variations mean that not all species are available for display at all times,
however there is always a great variety on display whenever you visit. Some of the facilities are associated with Zoos - such as the Butterfly House at Melbourne Zoo which has bred 500,000 butterflies and has a wonderful display right trough the year.
The Butterfly House has been a favourite attraction at the zoo for more than 20 years with visitors strolling though clouds of hundreds of butterflies in a beautiful natural tropical setting.
The populations are hard to maintain because the specific plants required for feeding and laying eggs must be provided for every single species. The butterflies lay their eggs on specially provided unique food plants in the Butterfly House environment. The potted plants are then taken to breeding facilities where the eggs hatch into caterpillars and grow into mature butterflies. The adults may only live for several days.
Several operators also offer seasonal Butterfly Watching tours where you can see butterflies in their natural environment. Butterfly Watching is often included with other packages or as part of various wildlife tours.
Listed below are the best Australian Butterfly House, Sanctuary, Farm, Garden, World, Butterfly Watching Tours and Tourist Attractions listed by name and location. Scroll through the list and click the operator's link to get more information. Click the town links to see the range of operators and tours available in the area. Use the search tools to select by State, Region and Town.
NSW>North Coast>Coffs Harbour
Coffs Harbour Butterfly House Maze and Tea Rooms
The Coffs Harbour Butterfly House, Maze and Tearooms consist of a fully enclosed glasshouse featuring an indoor rainforest and hundreds of live Australian butterflies. Visitors are able walk amongst the butterflies, learn about their life-cycle from one of the informative guides. The maze consists of a hunt for butterfly information. Woodwork gallery and tearooms.
QLD>Tropical North>Kuranda
Australian Butterfly Sanctuary
Australian Butterfly Sanctuary is the largest butterfly flight aviary and exhibit in Australia - a quality wildlife park located next to the Kuranda markets, The Sanctuary is home to over 1500 magnificent tropical butterflies that are hand reared on the premises. See local rainforest species, including the iconic Kuranda butterfly, the electric blue Ulysses Butterfly, and the majestic fluoro green and yellow Cairns Birdwing. Tel: 07 4093 7575