I grew up in a heavy industrial city in the northeast and never saw a butterfly in my memory. My butterfly dream began with Liang Zhu's story, and the transformation of butterflies became my first understanding of butterflies. When I grew up, I went to Yunnan to look for the beauty of butterflies because of the "Butterfly Spring By the Clouds", and the result is that everyone knows it, it is just a beautiful legend.
On this trip to Zhaoqing, I heard that there is a butterfly valley in Dinghu Mountain, and you can enjoy butterflies all year round, especially in the spring, there will be tens of thousands of butterflies flying, and my long-disappeared butterfly dream suddenly opened and hung.
Aerial photo of the mist-shrouded Zhaoqing Butterfly Valley / Photography @ Guanzi Travel
Dinghu Mountain is located in Dinghu District, Zhaoqing City, from the foothills to the top of the mountain, from the bottom up, there are many forest types such as gully rainforest, evergreen broad forest, subtropical monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forest and so on. It is known as the "gene repository", "green treasure house" and "living nature museum" of biological species in South China, and the "oasis" on the North Loop Line.
Butterfly Valley Primitive Forest Adventure Line is located in the Tianhu Lake Scenic Area, one of the three major scenic spots of Dinghu Mountain, which is composed of three parts: Bihu Lake, Small Island and Forest.
There is a 4-kilometer journey from the scenic gate to the Butterfly Valley Scenic Area, all uphill roads, rarely less than 15 ° slope, the best and fastest way to go up the mountain is to take the scenic sightseeing car.
With the help of the god perspective of the drone, the first sight of the small island of butterfly valley, Bihu suddenly remembered the term Peach Blossom Island, surrounded by water, the island and the forest have a small bridge connection, you need to take a boat to enter and exit the island. Such a hidden place is very suitable for the flashing of a certain hero in Jin Yong's pen, and it is more suitable for the love of Xiaolongnü and Yang Guo.
Landing on the island, you will enter the kingdom of butterflies. The island is equipped with a colorful butterfly garden and butterfly wing gallery, an antique tea house, self-help butterfly art, wishing trees, and a 38-meter-long scenery painting of the Zhaoqing Thousand Mile Tourism Corridor collaged by 100,000 butterfly wings on the island, which can be called "the first painting of butterfly wings in China".
Butterfly Valley Park is composed of five parts: specimen exhibition hall, net ecological butterfly viewing garden, butterfly handicraft production room, butterfly breeding garden and butterfly culture shopping mall, which is a tourist attraction integrating science education and tourism. This is a large-scale butterfly garden with the theme of eco-tourism, which skillfully combines the protection of the ecological environment with the development of eco-tourism.
At the entrance is the specimen exhibition hall, which brings together more than 500 species of famous butterflies in China and around the world, including the South Asian species of the golden-spotted beaked phoenix butterfly, which is a national first-class protected animal and also a Chinese national butterfly, the largest butterfly in China, the golden phoenix butterfly, and the smallest butterfly in China, the Fulai gray butterfly.
The ornamental garden is the first large-scale net ecological butterfly park in China, with an area of 1680 square meters, a height of 12 meters, and thousands of butterflies flying in more than 40 kinds. There are many rare tree species that grow naturally, such as the "unborn pine" dragon blood tree, the thick-skinned tree and the peculiar ancient banyan tree, etc., with long-term turbulent streams and flowers blooming in all seasons, and more flying colorful butterflies; There are also winding ancient vines, babbling streams.
Seeing so many varieties of butterflies for the first time in my life, it seems that there is a feeling that Grandma Liu has entered the Grand View Garden, and her heart is also excited, her hands are trembling, and she can't focus on taking pictures, and some of her hands are in a hurry. After observing for a moment and pondering carefully, I concluded that butterflies are very difficult to photograph when flying, because her flight trajectory is irregular, suddenly east and west, up and down, really drunk butterfly.
After many repeated practices, I can finally clearly capture the butterflies that fall on the flowers, although it is a short time of 1 or 2 seconds, their style and charm are frozen in my camera, becoming an eternal memory and beauty.
I chased her for a long time, I was dazzled by it, several times I wanted to give up shooting, suddenly, she landed on the flower in front of my eyes, as if she understood my mind, gave me a big surprise, I was careful, holding my breath, afraid of disturbing her and flew away.
There is also this anchovy butterfly, I also aimed for a long time to shoot, after enlarging the image to find that its tail has fallen, is it the end of life, because the butterfly life is only ten days, meet is already fate.
The butterfly was very calm, but it made me not calm. When I photographed the pair of hammer-shaped tentacles on their heads with macro lens, I was satisfied. This antennae is an important symbol of butterflies and is the biggest difference between butterflies and moths. There are about 14,000 species in the world, most of which are distributed in the Americas, especially in the Amazon River. There are 1200 species in China and 85 species in Zhaoqing Butterfly Valley.
The flying butterflies bring joy and joy to tourists, and people take out their mobile phones to take photos and pass on the happiness of the journey to the circle of friends. In today's era of national photography, photography brings productivity to tourism, and pictures make tourism more exciting.
The ecological environment and climatic conditions of the Dinghu Ravine Rainforest are very suitable for the growth of butterflies, and the establishment of the butterfly garden originated from the imagination of thousands of butterflies dying en masse more than a decade ago. Some laymen think that it is caused by environmental problems, and after expert field investigation, it is not environmental pollution, but the species and environment here are very suitable for butterfly spawning, hatching and growth, especially the growth of the host food of the annunciation spotted butterfly - mulberry parasitic plants, and butterflies have group growth habits, so there is a collective "death" phenomenon, which is the rush to reincarnate!
The forest is a primeval forest, a typical subtropical ravine rainforest, with many precious dragon's blood trees (Bulao pine) and more than 360 kinds of plants such as glasses beans, black grids, water owls, etc., many of which are natural butterfly hosts, such as dragon pearl fruit vine, horse bean ling vine, camphor tree, yellow cup, iron knife wood, yellow bark, banyan tree, oleander, etc. Waterfalls, streams, ancient trees and trees are abundant, making it an ideal place for butterflies to roost and breed.
Knowing this expert conclusion, the relevant government departments proposed to establish a butterfly ecological protection breeding garden here, create a popular science cultural attraction, create a better safe world for beautiful butterflies, and bring high-quality appreciation conditions to tourists.
Sitting on the excellent ecological environment, coupled with reasonable artificial transformation, Zhaoqing Butterfly Valley has now become one of the most unique butterfly gardens in the world, the most perfect combination of human beings and nature, famous at home and abroad.
Butterflies are at their peak in the spring, after scientific cultivation, according to expert inspections, hundreds of thousands of butterfly pupae will be feathered into butterflies around the National Day Golden Week, when the Butterfly Valley will be more lively.
It is also beautiful to meet, and the dust has fallen into the city.
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