Phuket Butterfly Garden & Insect World

Q : Why should we visit Phuket Butterfly Garden?

A : This is the first butterfly garden in Southern of Thailand. We can say it is the largest butterfly garden in Thailand and also the most authentic one.

Q : Where do butterflies in the garden come from?

A : You can feel relieved as all of the butterflies in our enclosure come from our own breeding department. The catch of outside butterflies is only for helping in breeding in order to avoid weakness from inbreeding.

In a month, we breed about 6,000-8,000 butterflies. The number varies from season to season.

Q : Why there is an otter in the garden?

A : A female otter in our garden was originally caught by a local villager in Phuket. The otter was kept in a small cage and fed by the villager for a few years. He at last brought her to us as he didn't want to feed her any longer.

The otter became too tame to be released as there is a high possibility that she would be caught again and we cannot predict how she would be treated. We, therefore, needed to keep her in the garden.

The otter lives with us happily and peacefully. We have never put her on advertisement or used her to promote our business. All of our staff love her and she has never been treated badly from us.

We sometimes received a complaint about keeping the otter. We want our visitors to understand that she is also our beloved. She is healthy in both physical and mind. Take a look when she is playing and sleeping, then you will know.

Q : How long can butterflies live?

A : To complete the whole life cycle, butterflies mostly live about one and a half month. The average of each period of butterflies' life cycle is as follows:
Egg 4-5 days Pupa 7 -10 days
Caterpillar 15-20 days Adult 14-15 days

The larger butterflies will normally have a longer life cycle such as "The Golden Birdwing" or Troides aeacus thomsoni (Bates), which takes about 2 months to complete its life cycle.

Q : Do you have only butterflies in the garden?

A : Apart from butterflies, we have an insect exhibition which is called 'insect world'. This is the first insect exhibition of Thailand containing the stories about the origin of insects, the growth of insects, and some species' details.

The exhibition also contains a wide collection of local insect specimens; live amazing insects and their relatives are exhibit in the outdoor garden including stick insects, leaf insects, arachnids, mantis, and some beetles.

Q : How many butterflies do we have? How many species do we have?

A : As mentioned above, we normally breed about 6,000-8,000 butterflies a month. At a time of your visit, you will see about 20-30 species of our butterflies.

Phuket Butterfly Garden
& Insect World

71/6, M.5, Soi Paneung
Yaowarat Road, T. Rassada
A.Muang, Phuket 83000 Thailand.

Tel: +66 (0) 7621 0861
Fax: +66 (0) 7621 5616

E-mail:
Web site: www.phuketbutterfly.com

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