Butterfly Atrium at the Hershey Gardens is home to dozens of rare butterflies

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Atrium at the Hershey Gardens is home to dozens of rare butterflies
The atrium houses has butterflies from Asia, Africa, South America, and the United States.

Hershey, Pa -- Hershey, Pa is known for its amusement park and chocolate factory, but its also home to dozens of rare butterflies. The Butterfly Atrium at the Hershey Gardens houses has butterflies from Asia, Africa, South America, and the United States in its indoor tropical atrium. We get shipments of chrysalis every week. You can watch them in this cabinet as they sort of emerge from their chrysalis. And then they get released every day into the atrium," says Senior Director, Amy Zeigler. Visitors are encouraged to wear bright colors as a way to encourage the butterflies to land on them. "They like bright colors," says Zeigler, "because you look like they're plants that they like to feed on."

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