I (Sherry) remembered my camera when I returned to Butterfly World in July 2008. I got a lot of pictures, so I separated them by topic (which also happens to correspond to sequence) into two pages to save on loading time:
It was a glorious day and there were LOTS of butterflies flying around, unlike my previous trip with my mother, when it was a bit wet from morning rains and most of the butterflies were sitting around. It's hard to get good pictures of butterflies when they're flittering about, but I did manage to catch a few sitting:
This next guy was so interestingly colored that I had to try to catch him as he fed off a flower, but he never stayed still long enough for me to get a really sharp photo:
And then a little further along, I found this other individual of the same species posing just fine:
| Continuing into the next section of the butterfly enclosure (the "Rain Forest" area), we go by some hanging plants. This one seemed especially weird looking, with its pitcher things, so I had to take a picture. |
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| There are some feeders out for the butterflies; apparently they like bananas. If you look closely in this picture, you can see more butterflies in the foliage. |
And of course the butterflies also feed on the variety of plants they have there:
| Here I am in the upper part of the Rain Forest enclosure. |
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| This little guy is actually a wild butterfly, outside the main butterfly enclosures, where they have interesting gardens and other stuff. |
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