The Butterfly House in St Louis is located in a glass conservatory which houses over 60 tropical butterfly species. You have to enter this special place by walking through a door where you have to wait a few minutes before being led through another door, where immediately you will be surrounded by tropical plants and butterflies flying around you.
Some are very colorful and surprisingly large and might just land on you while walking around or sitting on one of the benches.
The rest of the Butterfly House exists out of a little gift shop, a room where a film about butterflies is shown, some displays and the cockroach box, which my children found surprisingly fascinating.
There are thousands of cockroaches climbing all over each other, perfectly visible because the box is made out of glass, the top is open and in the middle there is a glass bubble which gives you a very close up view. (Yikes.)
If you get there early enough you can purchase a tiny cup full of "cockroach food" (looked a lot like fish food) from the gift shop. They only sell a few a day in order not to overfeed the bugs.
I was really amazed by the butterflies but my children might have liked the cockroaches even more.
(What is wrong with them?!!!)
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