Hampyeong-gun, Spring Herald Butterfly Festival 'Flapping Wings' in Full Preparation

This Year's Representative 'Sanhorangnabi'... Over 200,000 Individuals of 17 Species

Hampyeong-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Lee Sang-ik) is in full swing breeding butterflies, the heralds of spring, spreading their wings wide for the 26th Hampyeong Butterfly Festival.

According to the county on the 6th, during the 11-day festival held from April 26 to May 6, about 200,000 butterflies of 17 species, including the Coral Hairstreak butterfly selected as this year's representative butterfly, will greet visitors in various forms.

On the 6th, the butterfly ecological breeding greenhouse at Hampyeong-gun Agricultural Technology Center.
[Photo provided by Hampyeong-gun]

The butterflies to be released and displayed during the festival are produced at the Hampyeong-gun Agricultural Technology Center. Utilizing a food plant greenhouse and indoor temperature and humidity facilities, they showcase beautiful and diverse butterflies every year in line with the festival schedule.

Visitors to the festival will be filled with joyful memories in a pure world of innocence under the beautiful fluttering wings of butterflies. They can be seen at the Butterfly and Insect Ecology Center during the festival period.

Moon Jeong-mo, head of the Agricultural Technology Center, said, "Hampyeong is the hometown of butterflies, and butterflies are a pride of our local culture. Although butterfly production is becoming increasingly difficult due to abnormal climate and the reduction of butterfly habitats, we are overcoming these challenges through various technological attempts."

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