Jumalon Butterfly Sanctuary

 

Jumalon Butterfly Sanctuary and Art Gallery are a private gallery, craftsmanship exhibition and nature store run by the Jumalon Foundation. It is placed in Julian N. Jumalon St. Basak, Pardo, Cebu City, Philippines. Implicit 1974, it initially served as a habitation of the late Cebuano lepidopterist Julian Jumalon.  Prof. Jumalon amassed a boundless accumulation of butterflies through his ventures overall and by exchanging nearby Philippine species with outside ones. Jumalon's interest with Lepidopterans did not simply end in having them safeguarded and confined. He needed the butterflies close by particularly the uncommon ones. So to welcome these creepy crawlies he planted his living arrangement with butterfly sustenance plants. He additionally got live examples and discharged them in his enclosure. His butterfly accumulation is known to be the most seasoned and maybe the greatest in the Philippines.

 

At his passing, an establishment was made by his youngsters and stupendous kids to cultivate to his gathering and the compound which, preceding the organizer's demise, has turned into a vacation destination. Inside the compound is a salon and arrangement. The arrangement is a gathering of a hundred butterfly sustenance plant species. Among these plants shudders around 50 nearby and outside types of butterflies. Some uncommon species are brought forth in bondage and later discharged. Inside the salon is Jumalon's gathering of butterflies and different creepy crawlies. Likewise found inside is the histories of butterfly species. The salon additionally houses the depictions and different works of Jumalon, who was likewise a craftsman. Most prevalent among his works is his mosaics made altogether of butterfly wings from harmed butterfly taken from his accumulation and different accumulations far and wide. This mosaic delineates a few places around Cebu City and National Heroes among others.