Shanghai Entomological Museum enters busy season from late spring to early summer

300 Fenglin Road-In the quiet yard of the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Academy of Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, a beautiful "flying party" is quietly brewing ". Starting this month, the 500-square-meter open-air butterfly garden of the Shanghai Entomological Museum will enter a busy season: students traveling, guests and friends of the "Science and Technology Week", and children celebrating the "June 1" International Children's Day will not miss the butterfly. The best season for "close contact. In addition, the city's first free "insect summer camp" also has plans to open this year, dozens of children of migrant workers in Xuhui District will become "lucky" ...... Such excitement will continue until the golden autumn of October. Because for most insects, 22 ℃ ~ 27 ℃ is the most suitable temperature for survival. In Shanghai, if you want to "play" with insects in nature, you have to grasp the half year from the end of April to October. No, the reporter found in the greenhouse of the insect museum a few days ago: the little guys who pupate into butterflies are getting darker and have begun to break out of the cocoon. The Shanghai Entomological Museum, formerly known as the Insect Department of the Shanghai Aurora Museum, was built in Xujiahui in 1883 and enjoyed the reputation of "the British Museum of Asia" in the last century. After upgrading and transformation, it is now the "leading figure" in the city's popular science venues. The indoor exhibition hall covers an area of 2600 square meters and has more than 100 million insect specimens from all over the country. Among them, the only insect in China that has been designated as "national first-class protection"-the coracoid butterfly, and the "goddess of light" flash butterfly with a single specimen price of 360000 yuan, are all "treasures of the town hall". The insect net room (I .e. butterfly garden) and glass greenhouse are "outdoor branches" put into use last year: late spring, early autumn and the whole summer are "good times" for butterfly garden. children can try how to catch butterflies with nets, but they must be released before leaving. the staff will "return" a butterfly specimen for you to make bookmarks, greeting cards and other souvenirs. After the weather turned cool, insects "moved" to the greenhouse, visitors can ignore the cold outside and continue to "spy" the secrets of insects in the winter. In the butterfly garden, there are also flowers and plants and small bridges and flowing water, but it is different from the general garden. It seems that there is no need to pay attention to bright colors of plants. They are determined not to "eat" pesticides, and even "weeds" are too lazy to take care. Experts from the Entomology Museum told reporters that the protagonist here is not plants, but insects. As long as plants that can provide parasites for insects, they must "indulge" its growth. For example, the kind of small flowers that will open inconspicuous pulp grass, rich in nectar, is one of the favorite butterflies.

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2019

01-13

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