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Keeper POV: Unpacking a special delivery to our Butterfly Garden

Date Jan 31, 2022
Published in At the Aquarium

Every two weeks, butterfly farms send sustainably raised butterfly chrysalises to the Aquarium. Each of these shipments can contain hundreds of chrysalises for dozens of different species, and there are many steps between their arrival, their display in a special viewing window and their eventual release into the Butterfly Garden.

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