Amazing Butterflies

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This summer, the Florida Museum of Natural History invites visitors to transform into caterpillars and journey through one of the planet’s most amazing lifecycles at “Amazing Butterflies” June 13 – Sept. 7.

In “Amazing Butterflies,” visitors experience the challenges of being a caterpillar as it morphs into a beautiful butterfly through a hands-on human maze of larger-than-life leaves, grass and trees. Along the way, they discover the ways caterpillars move, what they eat and how other creatures help them achieve their transformation.

Visitors can mark their progress as a butterfly by stamping a souvenir garden card at eight stations before zooming out of the maze as a butterfly on “The Monarch Monorail!”

After experiencing 'Amazing Butterflies,' check out the Butterfly Rainforest, a 6,400-square-foot screened outdoor enclosure with hundreds of free-flying butterflies from around the world, subtropical and tropical plants, and soothing waterfalls. The Rainforest presents butterfly releases at 2 p.m., 3 p.m., and 4 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday. Inside the museum, the “Wall of Wings” displays more than 13,000 scanned and actual butterfly and moth species, and visitors may observe scientists preparing and rearing new butterflies in the laboratories.

“Amazing Butterflies” was created by the Natural History Museum in London in collaboration with Minotaur Mazes. Admission to the exhibit is $7.50 for adults ($6.50 Fla. residents), $6 for seniors and students, and $5.50 for children ages 3-12. Admission to the Butterfly Rainforest is $9.50 for adults ($8 Fla. residents), $7 for seniors and $5 for children ages 3-12. Members are admitted free to “Amazing Butterflies” and the Butterfly Rainforest. For more information call 352-846-2000 or visit www.flmnh.ufl.edu/exhibits/upcoming.htm.