An egg was laid in the metamorphosis of Penang Butterfly Farm.

On 18 October 2014, the ground was ceremoniously broken to make way for the construction for its major redevelopment in Teluk Bahang which is set to start in November 2014.

Penang Butterfly Farm currently stands at 29,000 sq ft and will expand its wings to 91,000 sq ft for the first phase of construction and eventually spread even further to 130,000 sq ft during the second phase of construction. The total investment budget for the first phase of construction is a whooping RM 38 million.

While construction is underway, the farm is still open for public until 7th of March 2014. After which, it will undergo its pupation stage where it will be closed for public in order to make way for further construction.

This redevelopment will be uniquely themed for the purpose of Education and Tourism while sharing the profound wisdom of Mother Nature.

Here’s a sneak peek of what’s to come..

Watch out for the emergence of this new facility in early 2016. 

During the said ceremony, Penang Butterfly Farm also launched 2 Children’s Insect Book authored by Mr. Kazuo Unno, a renowned insect photographer from Japan.

Another noteworthy event that happened that day was the launch of the #GrowMeToKnowMe contest to celebrate the wonderful things to come. 1000 pieces of nectar plant and food plant seedlings will be given out for a month.

We have planted the seeds.

4 more days until the reveal. Follow us on Instagram – penangbutterflyfarm

We headed to Seberang Perai Politeknik with some creepy crawlies for the “Karnival Pendidikan Sains dan Teknologi Peringkat Negeri Pulau Pinang” last 29th, 30th and 31st of May 2014.

If you weren’t there, let us tell you what are the awesome things that you have missed. Oh, don’t worry you’ll catch us again in other Carnivals soon!

Surely, our booth was full of critters that gave a lot of people the heebie-jeebies.

There was the Bugs Anatomy, where kids were able to magnify up to the teeny-tiny body parts of a scorpion, grasshopper, stick insect, water scorpion and a butterfly.

We didn’t forget to bring our leggy Millipedes for the Millipede Massage. For those who fancied a massage, they weren’t disappointed. But we have to admit, there were a few screams and loud cries but nothing serious that a few friendly encouragement couldn’t solve.

For those who weren’t fond of the creepy kind, we had the Pupa Math for some nerdy fun!
Test your visual and counting skills by looking for the correct numbers of well-hidden pupae on a Bonsai plant.

A few lucky ones also had the chance to bring home a Vita Nova (New Life) pupa where they will be able to observe the emergence of a butterfly.

There were a handful of fearless individuals too that tried out or Bowl-O-Worm daring game. The challenge was to grab 3 pieces of shillings from inside the bowl of Mealworms. How easy was that?! Some might disagree. Here’s a secret, think of the Mealworms as Mee Goreng (Fried Noodles) because they definitely look like it especially when they were in a bowl, ready to be served, you would easily forget about your fear and would certainly dig right in for those shillings.

We had our hands dirty with our Hunt-a-Grub activity. Grubs are the larvae stage of beetles. Some species are usually found underground, feed below the ground and guess what?, they also poop on the same ground. How convenient that is for them!?

If you are wondering if the grubs are edible…please refer to the previous paragraph.

So,would you eat them?

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Celebrate Spring Festival with us on the 1st of February 2014 with a special Lion Dance performance at 2:00pm and bring back fun memories. 

Don’t miss the rare photo opportunity with Tacca and Toro, our Nature Ambassadors  who will make their special appearances on the 1st and 2nd day of the Chinese New Year too.

Meet them there and receive Gong Xi Fa Cai goodies.

The fun doesn’t end there, catch our Nature Talks on 31 January, Friday at 9:30am, 11:30am and 4:30pm.  

On the EVE of Chinese New Year day our visiting hours will be from 9:00am to 1:00pm only with the last entry at 12:00pm.

 Penang Butterfly Farm

wishes you

GOOD FORTUNE, LASTING PROSPERITY and EXCELLENT HEALTH!

Under the “Imagine there’s no hunger” global food campaign, Hard Rock Hotel Penang organized yet another charity event dubbed as “Can-lah!” and invited us in.

This year’s food drive is for the benefit of refugee children of Life Bridge Learning Center and their families from Myanmar. The refugees are the Rohingya Muslim Community that had fled Myanmar in the 1980’s since the Burmese government has declared them as “stateless”. Currently residing in Malaysia, they find it hard to get stable jobs and housing due to a few limitations.

For a short few days, Penang Butterfly Farm encouraged its whole family of philanthropic staff to bring along canned or packets of non-perishable food as part of this campaign. And wow!, we collected 168 kg of food.

That’s is something to be proud of.