One of the exhibits I was most excited about seeing was the insect pavilion. I was initially a little let down because although it was interesting with interactive displays and lots of info, the only insects were specimens in shadow boxes. Then we discovered that the exit from that display led into a greenhouse full of plants and insects. There were lots of live insects in little terariums and some screened in areas you could walk into but the bulk of the insects were free to move around the greenhouse including lots of butterflies. Can you tell which piece of green leaf is the insect in one of the pictures? Cool isn't it? It was at least 5 inches long.We saw one of these insects in Northern Thailand when we were visiting a temple. The picture of twigs with a bit of a sign in it is actually two insects on the left which look exactly like the twiggy tree they were in. They were about 8 -9 inches long and really hard to see as insects because they looked so much like twigs. The orange insects were about 3 inches long and in a tree. The juicy looking caterpillars were about 5 inches long and nearly an inch in diameter. They were furiously chewing the leaves off the bush they were on.
There were a lot of different butterflies but hard to take pictures of without tramping all over the plants. For the most part I had to settle for just watching them. The giant insects were outside of the building and give you an idea of the over the top disney like aspect of some of the grounds and displays, but of course all set in beautiful gardens that the Thais are so good at.
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