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Butterfly World at DalkeithThe butterfly here is taken from a stock photo - the ones at Dalkeith fly about too quickly! There are a lot of them, though, and various other exotic creatures living in the warm atmosphere in Butterfly World. Accompanied only by a beanie toy, Butterfree (Pokémon trainers will understand), one P3 visited Dalkeith earlier during the May Bank Holiday. The butterflies were amazing, especially the ones that were supposed to be drunk on
the fermenting fruit left out for them to eat.
The two big iguanas living up on the roof were good too. At the back, in the Reptile House, there were snakes, spiders, chameleons, colonies of wild bees (with glass walls so you could see them fly in and out of their nests), and so on. The cutter ants which carried leaves from a table, up along ropes across the room and down into their nest over 10 metres away, were also interesting, a bit like in Disney's "Bug's Life". In the photo, right, look closely, each little green blob on the two thick ropes is a piece of leaf being carried by one of thousands of ants... 
The "Meet the Beasties" handling sessions were good, with huge tropical millipedes and a Royal Python called Monty,
as well as a tarantula spider called Annie-Sue.
Annie-Sue the Tarantula was a big hit with lots of children at the session.
Like lots of tourist places, Butterfly World have a Visitors' Book where you can write in what you thought of the place. This Book still had the entry from 1999 when our reporter visited while on holiday from Primary 2. |
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