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15th OCTOBER 2017 ~ Bantimurung National Park is also known as Butterfly Kingdom. Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, found 256 butterfly species from this area in 1857. [source: Wikipedia]
There was this small Butterfly Museum in the park, near the entrance. You have to pay a small fee to visit this building. Inside, there was a collection of butterflies and there were many of them - dead and being preserved. Where did all the butterflies come from?
This reminds me a lot of my first year in university. I had many friends doing courses like Diploma in Agriculture. One of their assignments was to collect insects and butterflies from the farm. They would then had to arrange and pin their collections (after suffocating these unfortunate creatures in chloroform) on the styrofoam in a box. And I was always there to join in the fun.
So if you like butterflies, this should be THE place you must visit when you are in Makassar.
Something interesting to share:
Lepidopterology - the study of butterflies and moths.
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