Penang Butterfly Farm

Penang Butterfly Farm

Giant Chalcosoma caucasus at the farm entry. Phasmidae Head close up.

During a short stay in Penang, I had the chance to visit some friends and as well the Penang Butterfly Farm, the world's first tropical live butterfly sanctuary. It is a big Butterfly Garden compared to those in the Cameron Highlands and the European ones. They have many of the Malaysian butterfly species flying around all year in a tropical garden that is surrounded by netting. They have many other insect species on display, such as beetles, leeches, phasmids, reptiles, and so on, as well as a small dried insect museum. Attached are some of the pictures I took there, no more words to describe it, wow.

Butterfly (Parthenos sylvia lilacinus)

Butterfly (Parthenos sylvia lilacinus)

Butterfly (Idea leucone chersonesia)

Butterfly (Hypolimnas bolina jacintha)

Butterfly (Idea hypermnestra lineata (?))

Butterfly (Cethosia penthesilea methypsea)

Butterfly (?)

Butterfly (Cethosia penthesilea methypsea?)

Butterfly (Junonia atlites atlites)

Butterfly (Troides helena cerberus)

Butterfly (Troides helena cerberus)

Butterfly (?)