I had promised to do a thread with some butterfly pics taken in the Butterfly House in the Hortus Botanicus. They had a smallish glass house with some tropical plants and oodles of butterflies floating around. The little glass house was constantly full of people. I suppose that with many of the blooming plants past the sell-by date outside the visitors concentrated their attention on the colourful Lepidopterians. I will begin with one of the most remarkable butterflies in the house. It was smallish, but its transparent wings made it especially interesting. Greta morgane Dryas iulia Dryas iulia mating Siproeta stelenes Heliconius types Sorry that there are no names for the last few foto's, but it is late and time for me to go check my eyelids for pin holes.
OMG! I may just lay down on the floor and convulse. Wow! Wow! Wow! I think I need the first one added to my tattoo. That one is splendid. Great photos.
Thanks for your comments, Ware. I wonder how that first one would turn out as a tattoo. I really enjoyed the variety of butterflies in the enclosure, but it is late fall, and I can only imagine what it is like in the summer. I shall have to return one day and see. Anyway, I'm glad that you liked the posting.
What a really lovely selection of photographs Sjeord. Now I really, really have to come over to Holland again to see all the things you have seen.
You are welcome, DONNA. Come on over, EILEEN. I am glad that you enjoyed looking at them, 2OF--Thanks for the compliments. Yeah CHERYL--I thought that it was pretty special as well. I really wanted to catch one and handle it, but restrained myself. I mean, it looked so beautiful and peculiar, I just wanted to examine it more closely.
I love your pic's. Last year we went to Mackinac Island in Michigan. They had a butterfly house that was pretty large. We so enjoyed all the different species we saw and had land on us. We really enjoyed it.
Thanks 2-T. Butterfly houses really are special places. I am always so amazed at the beauty of those insects.
Tooty2, we went to the butterfly house on Mackinac several years ago and spent hours in it. It truly was magical.
I do like your photos of such a great subject....such beautiful butterflys. Thank you for sharing Sjoerd...
You are most welcome, Sherry. I agree that butterflies are a great subject. We see so few here in comparison with locations in other countries, so they are very interesting to me.
