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From 25 Junio 2010 to 10 Septiembre 2010

Tea with butterflies

From: La Repubblica Florence / Chronicle / Tea with the butterflies to Mara Amorevoli

Welcome Tepidarium: Beauty is the beating of wings. Reopens the Greenhouse horticulture, the nineteenth century largest greenhouse in Italy: an Eden, even more. In a profusion of flowers and tropical fruit 400 hundred different species moths flutter


Beating of wings blue, pink with gold rims, blue with red lists. Flourishes in long queues of butterflies resting on flowers. Ephemeral as the beauty they show, they leave only for a few days. A world of butterflies invades Tepidarium Roster Horticultural Garden, turned into a small paradise of plants, flowers and tropical fruit, filled with 400 specimens of 100 different species. The increasingly rare African monarch, capable of great migration from Mexico to the U.S. (the only living nine months, the average is 3 days), or cobra Atlas Moth, with great wings blond-gold, with design head cobra snake to deceive predators. Here's the Moth Argema mimosae, with long graceful comet tails, typical of Africa and the butterfly leaf, which blends perfectly with a dry leaf, and then surprises you with a blink of an electric blue wings.

Welcome to the world the wonders of nature in the largest nineteenth century greenhouse in Italy finally open to the public, equipped with banana plants full of fruit, with blooming lantana, hibiscus, orchids, that recreate a piece of hot-humid tropical climate that allows these precious and fragile environment sentinels to live their short life though, and feed on nectar, pollen and fruit. And to multiply, because of trees shrubs staged his greenhouse, there are also cocoons: milky setati and ready to open new pupae of intangible copies. While other stations, huge and less noble silkworms weave their thread in as many cocoons. "The butterflies start-ups will take at least a couple of days to acclimatise, they will begin to move slowly, choose their place because they occupy the territory and defend it," said Enzo Moretto, entomologist and naturalist, chairman of the ethics committee Iabe-International Association of Butterfly Exhibitions, a supporter of many cruises on the conservation of these creatures. "The greatest enemy - states - are not birds or other predators, but the man who destroys their habitat. In Europe, which counts are missing about 60%, so our project aims to raise public awareness on the gravity an irreversible loss. "

The appointment Tea with butterflies, unveiled yesterday by Mayor Matthew Renzi, returns to the city until September 10 the space Tepidarium: furnished and equipped with bar, a small specialized library on all the secrets of insects, the interior was covered with white veils and filled with plants and flowers (also fake, unfortunately). Thus while drinking a cup of tea in Ginori porcelain or a drink, happen to run into slight vaulting of small triangles of color, or beguiled by a phantasmagoria of iridescent hues. "The event was conceived by Fabio Di Gioia, Antonella Lollobattista, after the success of the public received in Rome, Galleria Borghese aviary of last spring," says one of the organizers, designer Roberto Ciambrone. "We have invested in the recovery of space, furniture, wood in the repaving of the greenhouse Roster, and we can also accommodate artists in 5 locations for video projections," notes Joy. The "hunt" to emotions is open every day from 8.30 to 19.30 (Via Vittorio Emanuele 4), admission ? 8 (seniors and children 5 euros, free under 3 years). Info: www. teconlefarfalle. com - 055-0517591.


(June 23, 2010)

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