点评:We went to the botanical garden on April 23. We walked around the gardens which were nice. Mostly plants, not a lot of flowers.
We were having a nice time until we encountered a very unpleasant staff member.
We were sitting on a bench infront of the pond.
A monarch butterfly was fluttering about and accidently hit the water with its wing and landed in the water. It was struggling over and over to get up out of the water but the wings were wet and it was unable to. We tried to reach it with a stick but were unable to reach it.
There were three staff members in hip waders in the water in the pond working with the plants in the pond.
A younger girl was a distance from us, but about 15 feet from us was a woman and a guy.
My husband walked over with the intent to ask if they could simply lift the butterfly from the water as we could not reach it ourselves and they were standing relatively close to the struggling butterfly.
When my husband said hello the female worker said "im really busy is this an emergency?" very rudely.
My husband taken aback, then quickly explained about the butterfly. The women did not reply at all. She clearly heard what he said. She just ignored him and continued to work. The guy didn't even bother to acknowledge my husband.
We continued to try to reach the butterfly ourselves as we could see it flipping around in the water trying to get out.
The two workers could see us and just choose not to help.
5 minutes later they took off their gear and got out of the pond and just walked away.
Super disappointing that you would work at a garden and not care about the pollinators that keep your garden functioning. Especially an endangered Monarch Butterfly.
It would probably have taken 30 seconds for her to save the monarch, but she couldn't have cared less.
I had to walk away as I was very upset watching the Monarch drown.
I would not recommend this place.
翻译:4月23日,我们去了植物园。我们在园里散步,感觉很不错。园里主要是植物,鲜花不多。
我们本来玩得很开心,直到遇到一位态度非常恶劣的工作人员。
我们当时坐在池塘边的长椅上。
一只帝王蝶在水里飞舞,不小心翅膀碰到了水面,落入水中。它拼命挣扎着想要爬出水面,但翅膀湿透了,根本够不着。我们试着用棍子去够它,但够不着。
当时有三位工作人员穿着齐腰防水靴在池塘里照料植物。
一位年轻女孩离我们有点远,但离我们大约15英尺(约4.5米)的地方站着一位女士和一位男士。
我丈夫走过去,想问问他们能不能帮忙把蝴蝶从水里捞出来,因为我们自己够不着,而他们离那只挣扎的蝴蝶又很近。
我丈夫打招呼时,那位女工作人员非常粗鲁地问:“我很忙,这是紧急情况吗?”
我丈夫吓了一跳,赶紧解释了蝴蝶的情况。那位女工作人员完全没有回应。她显然听到了丈夫的话,却置之不理,继续工作。那位男工作人员甚至连看都没看我丈夫一眼。
我们继续尝试自己去够那只蝴蝶,因为我们看到它在水里扑腾,试图爬出来。
那两位工作人员明明看到了我们,却选择袖手旁观。
五分钟后,他们脱下工作服,离开了池塘,径直走开了。
在花园里工作,却对维持花园运转的授粉昆虫漠不关心,这真是令人失望。尤其是一只濒危的帝王蝶。
她可能只需要30秒就能救下那只帝王蝶,但她却毫不在乎。
眼睁睁看着帝王蝶溺水,我非常难过,只好离开。
我不会推荐这个地方。