Posed Butterfly

This is one of the butterflies that had died and while it was in good shape I went ahead and propped it up to pose it for some macro shots.

Butterflies

One of the gifts the kids got for Christmas was a couple insect habitat's from insect lore. The set came with a butterfly one and a ladybug one that you send in the certificate and they send you the insects that go with them in there beginning stages so they can watch them go threw the process of changing. It was pretty interesting to watch, especially the butterflies as the ladybugs did not really work out for some reason. The butterflies we received as caterpillars and watched them grow and then change to a chrysalides and then a butterfly. There were 3 butterflies in all and we have just this one left, which will probably not last much longer as they do not have a long life span.