Sertoma Butterfly House, South Dakota

Petting a shark.

The Sertoma Butterfly House and Marine Cove is a pretty neat attraction in Sioux Falls.  The "Marine Cove" is a nice little aquarium with a stingray, shark and horseshoe crab touch pool.  The Butterfly House holds around a thousand tropical butterflies.  They display their chrysalises so that visitors can see the butterflies emerging. Tiny button quails scamper around under the plants.  Jasper was fascinated.

Horseshoe crab and stingrays.

Horseshoe crab.  Photo by Jasper.

Stingray eye.  Photo by Jasper.

Red Rim butterfly.

Chrysalises. 

A Blue Wave lands on an Owl.

A Clipper takes a ride in Jasper's hair.

Julia butterfly.

Postman butterfly.

Golden Helicon butterfly.

Tiger longwing butterfly.

Blue morpho.

Atlas moth.  These are the largest moths in the world.  

White morpho butterfly.

Scarlet Mormon butterfly.

Doris Longwing butterfly.

Clipper butterfly.

Blue Morpho butterfly.  Photo by Jasper.

Tiger Longwing butterfly.  Photo by Jasper.

Button quail.

Doris Longwing butterfly.

Golden Helicon butterfly.