Worth Your Time: Denver’s Butterfly Pavilion
Have you ever journeyed over to Westminster to see their Butterfly Pavilion? well thanks to Ranger Week tickets at a reduced price were being given out so, many RU students were at the Butterfly Pavilion last Saturday, and I am here to give you the full report on what to get excited about when going.
When you first enter the parking lot you are greeted by a giant praying mantis. Next after walking through the door you find a room with all kinds of bugs. Tarantulas, stick bugs, beetles, leaf bugs, and many more. Taking stroll to the next room guests are greeted by an underwater world. Exhibits teaching about coral, hermit crabs, starfish, lobster, horse shoe crab, and many more creatures found under the sea. Finally guests make their way to the final exhibit the butterfly room. Walking inside the exhibit you instantly feel the heat and humidity created for the butterflies (their ideal condition) the guide at the front door gives insight to look up in search of a white dove names Kevin, and a 45 year old tortoise named Sunshine. This exhibit is blooming with plants, so many colors and textures. And every time you look up there are hundreds of butterflies. The butterflies are all different shapes, sizes, colors, and ages. Guides explain that when butterflies land on you they are giving butterfly kisses.
The Butterfly Pavilion is an absolutely breathtaking experience. Their mission is to bring education about invertebrates and the ways their very existence keeps us humans alive and thriving. The Butterfly Pavilion holds youth camps, youth programs, they have plans of making a research facility, and giving youth opportunities to explore STEM. The world around us is changing rapidly and with so many global issues placing stress on the invertebrate’s environments. This is why it matters so much to the Butterfly Pavilion to educate the next generation coming up, and in fact everyone who visits their extraordinary facility.
Parents! sign your children up now for these spectacular youth programs! follow this link https://butterflies.org/event/2021-summer-camps/ , https://butterflies.org/event/spring-break-camps/
