Butterfly Magic

Tucson Botanical Gardens

Tucson Botanical Gardens is fluttering with hundreds of the worlds most beautiful and exotic live tropical butterflies. Through February 26,2006, the Gardens' intimate Tropical Greenhouse features Butterfly Magic with such colorful fliers as the brilliant Blue Morphos and cleverly camouflaged Owl butterflies.

Visitors to the exhibit step into a world of winged wonders as butterflies flit overhead and all around, stopping to feed on nectar blossoms and softly landing on an arm or shoulder.  The butterflies are hatched from eggs and live as caterpillars in butterfly farms around the world. When the caterpillars change into the pupa or resting stage, they are shipped to the Gardens' emergence chamber where they can be viewed by the public. Once emerged, the adult butterflies are transferred to the greenhouse.

Butterfly Magic is open Tuesday - Sunday, 10 am - 3pm at the Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. For more information , call 520-326-9686 or visit
www.tucsonbotanical.org.