蝶園（ちょうえん）または蝶館(ちょうかん、英語: Butterfly house)は、蝶の鑑賞や繁殖に特化した動物園。
幾つかの蝶園には様々な植物のほか、他種の虫やクモ、サソリなども飼育される。
名称は日本では放蝶園、放蝶温室なども使用されている。
歴史
自然物のある温室で生きた蝶を見ることが1970年代からイングランドで盛んになった。
世界初の蝶園の一つに、1988年アメリカ合衆国のフロリダ州・ココナッツクリークに建てられた「バタフライワールド」がある。
蝶園一覧
Americas
USA
- Ashland Nature Center Butterfly House, Delaware Nature Society, Hockessin, Delaware
- Bear Mountain Butterfly Sanctuary, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
- Bioworks Butterfly Garden, Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, Florida
- Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, Maryland
- Butterfly Conservatory and Insect Zoo, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
- Butterfly Garden, Bronx Zoo, The Bronx, New York
- Butterfly Garden, Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts
- Butterfly House, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
- Butterfly House, Missouri Botanical Garden, Chesterfield, Missouri
- Butterfly House, Whitehouse, Ohio
- Butterfly House, Dayton, Ohio Cox Arboretum MetroPark
- Butterfly Landing, Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, Massachusetts
- Butterfly Pavilion, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California
- Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center, Westminster, Colorado
- The Butterfly Farm, Birmingham Zoo, Birmingham, Alabama
- The Butterfly Place, Westford, Massachusetts
- Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center, Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia
- Cockrell Butterfly Center & Insect Zoo, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas
- Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida
- Frederik Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids Township, Michigan
- Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory, South Deerfield, Massachusetts
- Magic Wings Butterfly House, North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, Durham, North Carolina
- Monsanto Insectarium, Saint Louis Zoological Park, St. Louis, Missouri
- The Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama, is constructing a butterfly house which is planned to float in the natural lake that the zoo was built on.
- Orange County Native Butterfly House, The Environmental Nature Center, Newport Beach, California
- Puelicher Butterfly Wing,Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Sertoma Butterfly House, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Tradewinds Park Butterfly World, Coconut Creek, Florida
- White River Gardens, Indianapolis Zoo, Indianapolis, Indiana
Canada
- Montreal Insectarium, Montreal, Quebec (with annual exhibit at the Jardin botanique de Montréal)
- Niagara Falls Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario
- Victoria Butterfly Gardens, Brentwood Bay, British Columbia
- Wings of Paradise Butterfly Conservatory, Cambridge, Ontario
Costa Rica
- San Jose Butterfly Farm,San José
Brasil
- Águias da Serra Borboletário São Paulo, Brazil
Europe
- Collodi Butterfly House, Tuscany, Italy
- Golders Hill Park, London NW3, UK. Free admission; open from April until autumn, weekends only at the ends of the season and daily in summer.
- Magic of Life Butterfly House, Rheidol Valley, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
- Seaforde Gardens and Butterfly House, Seaforde, County Down, Northern Ireland
- Schmetterlinghaus, Vienna, Austria
- Vlinderkas Diergaarde Blijdorp, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Vlindertuin Dierenpark Emmen, Emmen, the Netherlands
- Vlindertuin, Knokke, Belgium
- Wroclawskie Zoo, Wroclaw, Poland
- Motýlí dům, Žirovice (Františkovy Lázně), Czech Republic
Asia
- Penang Butterfly Farm, Penang, Malaysia. Houses some 5,000 butterflies of over 120 species.
- Butterfly Park, Bannerghatta National Park, Bangalore, インド. 10,000 sq ft (1,000 m²) circular enclosure.
- Singapore Zoological Gardens - The Fragile Forest Enclosure (シンガポール)
- Butterfly safari Park, Thenmala, Kerala (ecotourism in インド)
- Butterfly garden, Wetland Park, 香港.
- Butterfly garden, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, 香港.
- 箕面公園昆虫館放蝶園（大阪府箕面市）
- 橿原市昆虫館 放蝶温室（奈良県橿原市）
- 平和祈念公園清ら蝶園（沖縄県糸満市）
- 浦添市立前田小学校蝶園（沖縄県浦添市）
- みやこパラダイス（閉館、沖縄県宮古島市）
- 多摩動物公園昆虫生態園（東京都日野市）
- 足立区生物園（東京都足立区元渕江公園内）
- はこね・おだわら昆虫館（神奈川県小田原市）
Oceania
- Butterfly Sanctury, Kuranda, Queensland, Australia.
脚注
外部リンク
- The Entomological Society of America
