Collodi Butterfly House
The Collodi Butterfly House® is a splendid greenhouse-building of stone and crystal, designed by Emilio Faroldi and Maria Pilar Vettori of the emilio faroldi associati architecture studio (with offices in Parma and Milan), housing a lush tropical garden with nearly a thousand butterflies from all over the world. Inside, an audio-visual introduction prepares the visitor to understand the animal and vegetable life that can be admired within the Collodi Butterfly House®. This educational introduction then continues in the interior itinerary, with 10 gigantic informative panels, two insectaria and a formicarium. The construction blends the very latest developments in glass technology applicable to construction with the magic, light and lightness that both the glasshouse and the butterflies equally evoke. In the interior the visitor can admire a beautiful exotic garden where around a thousand of the most beautiful butterflies in the world, originating from Amazonian, Neotropic, Afrotropic and Indo-Australian environments, feed, court and reproduce. A fascinating world where ethology triumphs, and where we can observe all the phases of development (egg, larva, chrysalis and butterfly), note the differences between butterflies and moths, recognise the terrific aposematic colours and the tricks the butterflies adopt for survival, such as Batesian and Mullerian mimicry.
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