Bayer Insectarium facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
Bayer Insectarium
	Inside the insectarium
Date opened	2000
Location	St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Coordinates	38°38′06″N 90°17′31″W / 38.6349°N 90.2919°W
Memberships	AZA

Paper kite, Monsanto Insectarium

The Bayer Insectarium is an insectarium located within the St. Louis Zoo, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. David Mason & Associates designed the $4 million, 9,000 square feet (840 m²) facility which opened in 2000. It houses educational exhibits and an active breeding and research facility. The research facility includes a window to the exhibits area and two-way communications so visitors may watch entomologists work and ask them questions. The facility also includes a geodesic flight dome cage, home to numerous rainforest flowers and butterfly species.

The Bayer Insectarium is open every day except Christmas and New Years days. Admission to the zoo and the insectarium is free.

Butterfly collection

The insectarium includes a tropical garden and pollinarium. The gallery (below) illustrates a few specimens from the pollinarium's collection.

Adelpha fessonia
Mexican sister, underside
Agraulis vanillae
Gulf fritillary
Heliconius cydno
cydno longwing, underside
Heliconius erato
red postman
Heliconius hecale
tiger longwing
Hypolimnas bolina
great egg fly, male
Idea leuconoe
paper kite
Junonia atlites
gray pansy
Phoebis sennae
cloudless sulphur
Precis iphita
chocolate pansy
Princeps memnon
great Mormon, female
Princeps memnon
great Mormon, male
Siproeta stelenes
malachite, underside