Butterfly Creek`s,
Tropical Butterfly House is Australasia`s premier butterfly house, hosting over 700 free-flying, brilliantly colourful exotic butterflies from Asia and South America. The Butterfly House is temperature controlled to 28 degrees C with 70 - 80% humidity, streams, misting and waterfalls so as to replicate the conditions of the butterflies usual environment.

The Butterfly House is easily accessed via an elevated boardwalk and also includes a variety of tropical birds such as Senegal Fire Finches and Parrot Finches. The Butterfly House also includes a large walk through exhibit with New Zealand’s largest tropical freshwater aquarium containing Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika cichlids and astunning coral reef tank with Nemo (Clown Fish) and Dory as the resident stars.

A new exhibit room, with coastal marine tanks hosting New Zealand Sea Horses, lizards including Australian Blue Tongues and a variety of insects and bugs.


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Butterfly House
Atlas Moth
Attacus atlas
Ruby Lacewing
Cethosia biblis
Blue Morpho
Morpho peleides
Owl Butterfly
Caligo memnon
African Monarch
Danaus chrysippus
Common Mormon
Papilio polytes
The Flame
Dryas julia
Parthenos Sylvia
Smaller Wood Nymph
Ideopsis gaura
Citrus Swallowtail
Papilio demoleus
Asian Swallowtail
Papilio lowi
Green Spotted
Triangle

Graphium agamemnon
Scarlet Mormon
Papilio rumanzovia
Red Eared Turtle Painted Quail
African Cichlid African Cichlid Silver Arowana Giant Gourami
Pacu
Clown Fish Blue Tang Coral
Blue Tongue Lizard Sea Horse
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