Monsanto Insectarium

Monsanto Insectarium
Inside the insectarium
Date opened 2000
Location St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Coordinates 38°38′06″N 90°17′31″W / 38.6349°N 90.2919°W / 38.6349; -90.2919Coordinates: 38°38′06″N 90°17′31″W / 38.6349°N 90.2919°W / 38.6349; -90.2919
Memberships AZA[1]
Website www.stlzoo.org/visit/thingstoseeanddo/discoverycorner/insectarium
Paper kite, Monsanto Insectarium

The Monsanto Insectarium is an insectarium located within the St. Louis Zoo, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. David Mason & Associates designed the $4 million, 9,000 square feet (840 m2) facility which opened in 2000. It houses educational exhibits and an active breeding and research facility. The research facility includes a window to the exhibits area and two-way communications so visitors may watch entomologists work and ask them questions. The facility also includes a geodesic flight dome cage, home to numerous rainforest flowers and butterfly species.[2]

The Monsanto Insectarium is open every day except Christmas and New Years days. Admission to the zoo and the insectarium is free.

Butterfly collection

The insectarium includes a tropical garden and pollinarium. The gallery (below) illustrates a few specimens from the pollinarium's collection.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Currently Accredited Zoos and Aquariums". aza.org. AZA. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Zoo's Monsanto Insectarium on schedule, set to open next spring". St. Louis Commerce Magazine. September 1999. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
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