The mini zoo

The Mini Zoo where some small animals are kept, is located near the children playground. A miniature railway complete with tunnel, waterfall are crossroads is built for the children and adult to enjoy themselves.

The Butterflyhouse

In April this year Nong Nooch Tropical Garden will present a new attraction for the visitors. The Butterflyhouse. In a net house the tourists can walk around and look at butterflies in all different colors. Here you can see everything from small yellow-wings to the worlds largest butterfly, the Attacus atlas. And you can not only see to nine month for the butterflies, but their whole lifecycle. It takes four steps and about one to nine months for the butterflies to become the beautiful creatures that they are.

First the female butterfly has to lay her eggs on a certain plant, called the host plant. This is the plant that the larvae will eat the leaves from when the eggs hatch into larvae. The larvae are eating until they are as big as they can get. Then they hang themselves under a leaf and moult their skin a last time and become pupas. The pupas can hang like this for a few weeks or several months, depending of which species it is. Finally the pupa hatches and the beautiful butterfly comes out, hanging under the leaf for a while, to get its blood circulating in the wings, to dry of and then it flies away to find it’s first meat. A beautiful flower full of fresh nectar.

There are about 1500 butterflies in the butterflyhouse. To be able to have this amount of butterflies all the time there is a breedinghouse in the garden.

A butterfly lives for about two to four weeks. Everyday about 100-200 butterflies die in the butterflyhouse and 100-200 new ones are released