McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Collections Video Tour

The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity serves both research and public education functions. The center includes the 6,400-square-foot living Butterfly Rainforest, an adjacent 4,600-square-foot exhibit gallery featuring information about Lepidoptera and rain forests worldwide, as well as more than 31,000 square feet of research laboratories and collection space. The center houses one of the world’s largest Lepidoptera collections, which includes specimens of the Florida Museum of Natural History and of the Florida Collection of Arthropods (Florida Division of Plant Industry.