Last Friday, I returned to Butterfly Magic at the Tucson Botanical Gardens
with my two young grandsons.
We saw wonderful butterflies, including these Owl Butterflies and an obliging Blue Morpho that sat on a lady's backside, wings spread wide.
We peered through the windows of the Emergent Room
to see the pupae, hanging like an earring display at a jewelry store. Although none of the butterflies were emerging at the time, my grandsons were fascinated by the wiggling, jiggling chrysalids
(Click on photos to see larger size).
with my two young grandsons.
We saw wonderful butterflies, including these Owl Butterflies and an obliging Blue Morpho that sat on a lady's backside, wings spread wide.
We peered through the windows of the Emergent Room
to see the pupae, hanging like an earring display at a jewelry store. Although none of the butterflies were emerging at the time, my grandsons were fascinated by the wiggling, jiggling chrysalids (Click on photos to see larger size).
4 comments:
The Blue Morpho is gorgeous! I don't know if that was sunlight or the camera's flash, but you were able to capture its blue iridescence perfectly.
No flash. The greenhouse is well lit.
Beautiful butterfly photos. Is that like a butterfly factory they have there?
Welcome, Thor! This is the second year the Tucson Botanical Gardens has put Butterfly Magic on in their tropical greenhouse. They bring in chrysalids from butterfly farms from all over the world and keep them in the emergent room. When they hatch, the butterflies are put in the greenhouse. The show ends on Feb. 26, because it starts to get too hot in Tucson. Hopefully, this will be an annual event here. If you haven't seen them already, you can see some more photos in an earlier post:
http://pashack1.blogspot.com/2006/
01/photography-class-butterflies.html
I plan to go back at least once more before the show closes.
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