India’s largest Butterfly park is all set to open in Gujarat’s Surat city. The Park will open most probably next month.

The park is being developed by Surat Municipal Corporation(SMC) as part of Surat’s famous Sarthana zoo at a cost of Rs. 1.50 crore.

SMC has used 15000 square metre net to develop 16,000 square metre Butterfly park. Around 10,000 plants and trees consisting more than 100 diverse varieties are planted to create suitable atmosphere for butterflies. Artificial water falls, ponds, rock garden and pathways are developed inside the park for public amusement. At a time, four to five thousand people would be able to visit this park.

As of now Bangalore has the largest 1000 square metre Butterfly park which is too small in compare to Surat’s 16,000 square metre similar park.

It is estimated that there are about There are 150000 different species of butterflies and moths in the world. Surat Butterfly park will have presence of 10,000 butterflies consisting 30 different species.

Some of the butterfly species that would be presented in the park are Tony Coaster, Common crow, Indian Cupid, Pell Grass blue, Blue Tiger, Striped Tiger, Common Serulin, Red Pirot, Blue Pensi, Common Coaster, Common Leopard, Common Gull, Common Nawab, Peacock Pensi, Dinide Egg fly, Common Bluebottle, Grey Pensi, Lime Butterfly, Lemon Pensi, Common Rose, Great Egg fly, Blue Mormon, Yellow Pensi, Crimson Rose, Common Mormon, Tailed Jay, Common Emigrant, Red Halon, Common Grass Yellow, Common Jazzble.