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A waterfall in the Butterfly Rainforest. The role of the Florida Museum of Natural History as the official natural history museum for Florida, according to Florida Statute §1004.56, is "to make scientific investigations toward the sustained development of natural resources and a greater appreciation of human cultural heritage".
Swallowtail butterfly resting on a rose in the Kanapaha rose garden Nymphaea alba at Kanapaha Botanical Gardens Red-shouldered hawk at Kanapaha Botanical Gardens Conifer tree in Kanapaha conifer garden. The Kanapaha Botanical Gardens (62 acres, 25 hectares) is a botanical garden in Gainesville, Florida, operated by the North Florida Botanical ...
Florida Museum of Natural History: Gainesville: Alachua: North Central: Exhibits include fossils, butterfly rainforest, recreated southwest Florida mangrove forest and sea grass estuary, area Native Americans, Northwest Florida ecosystems, outdoor wildflower and butterfly garden, trails through 60-acre Natural Area Teaching Lab
Cockrell Butterfly Center & Insect Zoo, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston; Florida Museum of Natural History Butterfly Rainforest, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville; Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids Charter Township, Michigan; Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory, Key West
The two regions (Amazon and Andes) are South America proper excluding the pampas plains of Uruguay and Paraguay which have a distinct butterfly fauna. Isolation has led to the evolution of endemic higher taxa. Instances are Ithomiinae, Dismorphiinae, Phyciodina, Pyrrhopygini, Eumaeini (over 1,000 species), Pronophilina and Eudaminae.
Butterfly World is located in Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek, Florida. It opened in 1988, and it is the largest butterfly park in the world, [3] and the first park of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. The facility houses around 20,000 live butterflies.
Anaea troglodyta, the Florida leafwing, Portia or Florida goatweed butterfly, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Florida and on many islands of the Caribbean . In Jamaica , it is known as the Jamaican tropical leafwing and in the Cayman Islands and Cuba it is known as the Cuban red leaf .
Consequently, Florida is the place where Schaus' swallowtails live. Unfortunately, with hurricanes and the destruction of these hammock habitats, the Schaus has lost much of its population. These tropical hardwood hammocks are essential for the butterfly’s mating and nectaring activities.