Butterfly World, Isle of Wight

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Butterfly World
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Butterfly World, Isle of Wight
50°42′41″N1°15′16″W / 50.71127°N 1.25447°W / 50.71127; -1.25447
Date opened1983
Location Isle of Wight
Website https://butterflyworldiow.com/

Butterfly World is a butterfly zoo located on the Isle of Wight.

It opened on 1 May 1983 as part of the Medina Garden Centre, becoming the first butterfly farm opened in a UK garden centre, and the fifth Butterfly farm in the world. [1]

It includes an indoor sub-tropical garden with free-flying butterflies. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Butterfly World opens its wings". Gardeners Chronicle and Horticulture Trade Journal. 193. Haymarket Publishing: 8. 1983. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
  2. ↑ Long, Peter (2004). The Hidden Places of England (4 ed.). Travel Publishing Ltd. p. 291. ISBN   978-1-904434-12-2 . Retrieved 25 March 2010.
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