Butterfly World is the world's largest butterfly park, home to more than 20,000 live butterflies. The park was the vision of Florida electrical engineer Ronald Boender, who founded the organization MetaScience in 1984 to supply global zoos and research programs with butterflies.
Following a meeting with London Butterfly House founder Clive Farrell the following year, the pair founded Butterfly World in 1988 as a public attraction and research facility, the first park of its type in the Western Hemisphere. Today, it is also home to the United States' largest free-flight hummingbird aviary, as well as a lorikeet encounter experience, a tropical rainforest aviary, and a butterfly emerging area.
Butterfly World visitors can stroll through the Grace Gardens outdoor botanical garden, view mounted specimens at the park's insectarium, or observe butterflies at different stages of development at the park's laboratory facility.
3600 West Sample Road, Tradewinds Park, Coconut Creek, FL 33073, Phone: 954-977-4434
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