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| Isabella Tiger Monteverde Butterfly Garden, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Owl Butterfly Monteverde Butterfly Garden, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Malachite Butterfly
Monteverde Butterfly Garden, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Bluewing or Blue-Banded Purplewing
Monteverde Butterfly Garden, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Colubura Dirce
Monteverde Butterfly Garden, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Thoas Swallowtail
Monteverde Butterfly Garden, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Postman
Monteverde Butterfly Garden, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Heliconius Sara
Monteverde Butterfly Garden, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Blue Morpho Butterfly on Charlie Doggett Selvatura Park, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Heliconius Hecale Zuleika
Selvatura Park, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
The Selvatura Adventure Park Butterfly House was bigger and fancier and maybe landscaped better or prettier but did not have as many species as the smaller, family-run Monteverde Butterfly Garden which also had a more lively insect exhibit, again not as big, but with more live insects shown up close by one of the owners. If you can go to only one of the butterfly gardens, I would recommend Monteverde. Plus if you go hiking in the Cloud Forest Reserve or Curi-Cancha you will see lots of butterflies in the wild.
-Henry David Thoreau