Insectarium

An insectarium is a live insect zoo, or a museum or exhibit of live insects. Insectariums often display a variety of insects and similar arthropods, such as spiders, beetles, cockroaches, ants, bees, millipedes, centipedes, crickets, grasshoppers, stick insects, scorpions, and mantids. Displays can focus on learning about insects, types of insects, their habitats, why they are important, and the work of entomologists, arachnologists, and other scientists that study terrestrial arthropods and similar animals.

Overview

Some insectariums may include museum displays of mounted insects and exhibits about insects.

A butterfly house is a type of insectarium that specializes in live butterflies and moths. In addition, there are seasonal butterfly gardens on display at many zoos, botanical gardens, nature centers, natural history museums, and science museums.

List of insectariums

Public insectariums or insect zoos include:

Audubon Insectarium, New Orleans, Louisiana
Bangkok Butterfly Garden and Insectarium, Bangkok, Thailand
Bayer CropScience Insectarium, Durham, North Carolina
Henry Doorly Zoo, Butterfly and Insect Pavilion, Omaha, Nebraska
Gunma Insect World, Kiryū, Gunma, Japan
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Brown Hall of Entomology, Houston, Texas
The Insectarium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Insectarium of Victoria, (Victoria, Australia)
Insektariumas (Lithuania, Palanga)
Montreal Insectarium, Montréal
Monsanto Insectarium at the St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis, Missouri
O. Orkin Insect Zoo at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Ralph M. Parsons Discovery Center and Insect Zoo, Los Angeles, California
Newfoundland Insectarium, Reidville, Newfoundland
San Francisco Zoo, InsectZoo, San Francisco, California
Stratford Butterfly Farm, Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Detroit Zoo, Wildlife interpretive gallery (aviary, and butterfly garden), Detroit, Michigan
Esapolis, Il grande insettario della provincia di Padova, Padova, Italy

Zoos, aquariums and aviaries

Types of zoos	Animal sanctuary Animal theme park Aquarium Aviary Bear pit Butterfly house Dolphinarium Herpetarium Insectarium Nature center Marine mammal park Menagerie Night safari Oceanarium Penguinarium Pheasantry Petting zoo Reptile centre Safari park Serpentarium Virtual zoo Vivarium Zoo

Conservation	Biodiversity Endangered species Ex situ conservation In situ conservation reintroduction Conservation biology

Lists	Aquariums Conservation topics Dolphinariums Zoos Zoo associations

Other topics	Animals in captivity Animal training Behavioral enrichment Captive breeding Frozen zoo Immersion exhibit Nocturnal house Wildlife conservation Zookeeper Zoological Society Zoology

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Insectarium

Overview

List of insectariums

See also