Butterflies and Flowers at Magna Curia Castle

THE MUSEUM OF DACIAN AND ROMAN CIVILISATION (DEVA) - MEMBER - OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUMS NETWORK OF ROMANIA

BUTTERFLIES AND FLOWERS AT MAGNA CURIA CASTLE

     Deva Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilization in collaboration with verniseaza Hunedoara County Council Friday, June 24, 2011, 12.⁰⁰ at the museum exhibition Butterflies and Flowers at Magna Curia Castle.
     Visitors will have the opportunity to admire these beautiful colors and elegant wings of insects, the diversity of species grouped into many families, how to adapt to the environment and the close relationship between them and flowering plants, the main source of food for both larvae and adults.
     Organizers of the exhibition invites all nature lovers to explore the fascinating world of butterflies, how they go through a complete metamorphosis from egg stage to the larva, chrysalis and adult. Also, those who will come to the museum curiosities of life will find butterflies, such as camouflage and mimicry art.
     Along with common species and rarities can be seen in the fauna of Romania, the Apollo butterfly (Parnassius apollo) and exotic species that impresses with robust body and wing span: Attacus atlas, one of the largest butterflies in the world, the butterfly-birds (Ornithoptera priamus) original Indo-Malaysian region, Morpho butterflies with their wings iridescent metallic blue with natives of the Amazon rainforest, Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in North America due to known migration distances of thousands of miles to places where born.
     The exhibition will be open from June to September 2011, daily except Mondays, between 10.⁰⁰-18.⁰⁰.