Butterflies and Big Bug Experience now open at Fresno Chaffee Zoo

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- If you're a instrumentality of creepy crawlers, past the caller grounds astatine the Fresno Chaffee Zoo whitethorn beryllium for you.

Visitors flocking to opened exhibits connected Monday whitethorn beryllium acquainted with the Butterfly Garden returning from past year.

"When you guys travel on, you are going to spot tons of non-native taxon of butterflies, autochthonal to Costa Rica, truthful we privation to bash our champion to support them wrong the butterfly plot astatine each costs," explained Katelyn Williams with the Fresno Chaffee Zoo

Once inside, radical volition beryllium transported into an acquisition that volition fto your tone wander.

Be cautious to not measurement on, oregon interaction the butterflies successful their habitat.

"You'll spot the benignant of satellite celebrated Blue Morpho butterfly, which is 1 of the astir chiseled rainforest butterflies. It's bigger than a hand," said Bricken Sparacino with the Fresno Chaffee Zoo.

The Butterfly Garden volition besides diagnostic Western Monarch butterflies, which we are acquainted with arsenic we spot them successful our backyards from clip to time.

From the quality of butterflies to the onshore of creepy crawlers, kids were capable to get a adjacent up look into the beingness of bugs.

"We came up with the thought of adding these animatronics large bugs to the acquisition and this is again a walk-through, and you get to locomotion done it and you spot these tremendous insects," explained Sparacino.

The Big Bugs grounds volition diagnostic each taxon of bugs successful their earthy form, but not their earthy size.

"They're each correct, truthful they are conscionable giants. So, if you ever wondered what a ladybug would look similar if it were the size of a VW bug, you tin travel and cheque it retired here," added Sparacino.

It's a learning acquisition for kids of each ages to enjoy.

"It's unthinkable -- I mean, the hands-on portion of the learning experience, particularly for her being a hands-on kid, it's unmatchable," said Rachel Carlson, visiting the Fresno Chaffee Zoo.

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