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Crawl, Climb and Fly with ‘Amazing Butterflies’ at the Florida Museum, June 13 – Sept. 7

June 03, 2009

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Families having fun at Amazing Butterflies at the Museum of Natural History in Gainesville Credit: Museum of Natural History

A new exhibit is opening June 13 at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville – it’s called Amazing Butterflies, and it promises to be a fantastic family event!

Created by the Natural History Museum in London in collaboration with Minotaur Mazes, this hands-on exhibit lets you experience the challenges of being a caterpillar as it morphs into a butterfly! How you ask? By taking you through a human maze of larger-than-life leaves, grass and trees! It’s not only fun, but it’s educational too. Along the way, you can’t help but discover the ways caterpillars move, what they eat and lots more.

You’ll even discover how good your family works together as a team when you learn to crawl like a caterpillar by slipping into a set of caterpillar legs and using teamwork and locomotion to sprint for the finish line.

Be sure to check out the “Nectar Food Path Puzzle” and “Squeeze and Sniff” stations that explain how butterflies find food by sight and smell. And don’t forget to have your souvenir garden card stamped at the eight different stations.

And wait till you step inside their permanent exhibit, the Butterfly Rainforest. There are hundreds of butterflies from all around the world flying around a 6,400-square-foot screened enclosure. There’s also waterfalls and tropical plants - and every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., they have butterfly releases.

Admission to Amazing Butterflies 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 their web site.

Want to get up close and personal with the butterflies and those who visit? The Museum is seeking summer volunteers to assist with daily horticulture needs, greeting, interpretation and weekend plant sales. For more information on volunteering in the Butterfly Rainforest, click here.