LAHORE: A beautiful butterfly house has been set up at Jallo Park, housing about 3,000 different species of butterflies for public viewership.

It is the first ever butterfly house which has been set up for the entertainment of people.

In the house, a 300-feet long tunnel has been constructed to provide a perfect habitat to butterflies and around 3,000 different species of butterflies have been brought from different cities of the country. A butterfly laboratory has also been established to educate visitors regarding different stages that butterfly larvae go through.

A Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) spokesperson told media on Sunday that an amount of Rs70 million had been spent on the project. He added that the PHA had developed the butterfly aviary over 16,500 square feet and the PHA had developed the aviary from its own resources.

He informed that the PHA had earlier imported some species from the Central American state of Costa Rica but the butterflies did not survive. Now the authority had plans to import some species from Thailand, he added.

The spokesperson said that the authority had planted thousands of plants to provide a natural habitat. “A museum, a waterfall, a stream, an aquarium and a souvenir shop are also part of the project,” he added.

He said that the PHA had also developed a larvae-rearing chamber to increase the population. The aviary is equipped with an environment control cooling and heating system ensuring a suitable atmosphere for butterflies and visitors, he added.