Picture of the Week
My family has ‘fostered’ butterflies from time to time, mostly Painted Lady butterflies. But we have also fostered Monarchs and a Tiger Swallowtail. Here is one of the Monarchs that we fostered. These pictures were taken, just after we released him.
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September 19th, 2005 at 12:32 am
I never knew that one can foster butterflies!It’s really a fantastic and interesting job!Isn’t it ? At least much better than daily working with spiritless computers!In a business like butterfly fostering you are busy with ” nature ” as well as natural emblems.
By the way is there any commercial purpose in this business as well?
It’s a nice photo anyway.
The butterfly sanctuary that we go to, has an “adopt a butterfly program”, where you pay to take home some caterpillars and you take them home and let they grow, form a crystalis. When they emerge, you can bring them back to the sanctuarty and let them go (they dont charge to enter when you bring butterflies back) or if it is warm enough, you can let them go outside. I dont think the word “adopt” is appropriate for what we do, I rather to ‘foster” them. It is lots of fun. The Monarchs actually come on the Milkweed plant that they love to eat. The form their crystalis and emerge, it is alot of fun to watch.
~ Dawn
September 19th, 2005 at 12:21 pm
As of late, we have had a beautiful blue and black butterfly (4in wing span) take a liking to my plumbego. It comes into the yard everyday…at least once a day. I’ve tried to get a picture, but it keeps flying off before the camera shutter clicks.
ah, a camera shy butterfly! Sounds interesting, I wonderwhat kind it is? I hope that you get a picture of your little visitor
~ Dawn
September 19th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
What a great picture! What size lens are you using! the colors are amazing!
Thank you. It was actually taken on my Canon Powershot A70. I believe that all the stats are on the photos album page. and you can click on the picture to go there.
~ Dawn
September 20th, 2005 at 4:31 am
WOW, this is really beautiful. I love butterflies.
Thank you,
~ Dawn