Seniors Seek Out Beautiful Lepidoptera

Senior friends, get your coffee and join me this beautiful Sunday morning as we visit Butterfly Houses. Butterflies are part of the Class of Insects in the order Lepidoptera. Moths are also included in this order.

Adults butterflies have large, often brightly colored wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. There are dozens of butterfly houses for senior visitors to view Lepidoptera all over the world. The folks right here in the Valley (Phoenix) have a good example with Butterfly Wonderland that is drawing in those of us who love butterflies.

Texas Discovery Gardens is a 7.5 acre organic botanic garden featuring native and adapted plants. Inside, the two-story Rosine Smith Sammons Butterfly House and Insectarium transports senior visitors to a tropical rainforest, complete with hundreds of free-flying butterflies.

The Lepidoptera source in  South Deerfield in Western Massachusetts, features an 8,000-square foot indoor conservatory home to nearly 4,000 exotic and domestic butterflies in a tropical environment. The Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in St. Louis wants senior visitors to know that their Owl Butterflies come from El Bosque Nueve Butterfly Farm in Costa Rica.

Seniors Visit the Butterfly Rainforest

The Butterfly Rainforest in Gainesville, Florida is a can’t miss living exhibit that features hundreds of free-flying butterflies and birds from around the world along with an assortment of other animals including turtles and fish. The lush landscape is planted in tropical trees and colorful flowering plants amid waterfalls and a walking path.

Hundreds of butterflies flutter back and forth in Brookgreen Gardens, Pawleys Island, SC, as if trying to decide which they like best – the flowers’ sweet nectar or a refreshing dip in the pool. Then, one of these beautiful creatures lightly lands on your finger or your head.

Oh to be able to focus your camera and capture the image, but you know that as soon as you move, the butterfly will simply fly away. So you sit quietly and simply enjoy the beauty of your visit to Brookgreen’s Butterfly House.

Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, CO hosts 1,600 butterflies in their Wings of the Tropics exhibit, an indoor tropical rainforest environment. Senior travelers can visit Butterfly Pavilion and all those marvelous butterflies seven days a week.

Navarre, Florida hosts the Panhandle Butterfly House opened in 1997 and has been providing fun and education ever since.

So, hopefully I have ignited your interest in visiting a Butterfly House somewhere in the U.S. jeb