As I mentioned in a previous post there are several places in Chicago that I love, one of them is the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and its butterfly pavilion. They have butterflies from around the world flying all around the place. The view of so many butterflies is unbelievable! So gracious and fragile.
You can find small and big butterflies, with a great variety of colors, shapes and behaviors.
During early morning (my favorite time to go there) they are just warming their wings and feeding on flowers or fruit. Of course, that's the best time to picture them because they are still :)
The museum has a lot of visits from different schools and I can tell you that the faces of the little ones when they enter the butterfly pavilion is priceless! Sometimes I just sat in a bench for a while and watched them, so happy and excited! Kids are so amazing!
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| Cairns Birdwing - female |
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| Cairns Birdwing - female |
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| Cairns Birdwing - female |
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| Cairns Birdwing - male |
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| Cairns Birdwing - male |
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| Postman butterfly |
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| Owl butterfly |
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| Common Blue Morpho butterfly |
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| Looking from above the world... |
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| Postman butterfly |
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| Common Mormon |
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| Scarlet Peacock butterfly |
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| Scarlet Peacock butterfly |
This butterfly is one of my favorites, each time I see it reminds me a lady in a gown dress! So gorgeous!
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| Rice Paper butterfly |
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| Rice Paper butterfly |
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| Rice Paper butterfly |
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| Isabella Tiger butterfly |
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| Tiger Longwing butterfly |
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| Blue Banded Morpho butterfly |
The behavior of this three butterflies was very funny, the one in the middle was just standing there and the other two where flying around and pushing it away from the leaf. They tried it many times but at the end I think they got bored because they flew away.
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| Playing around |
This is the first of more posts about butterflies, so expect more in the future!
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