Butterfly House

This is a Blue Morpho Butterfly and it is huge - about 5 inches across when open.

When the wings are closed it is brown, but when it is open it is bright blue,

as in the picture below.

It was beautiful when flying because the blue showed,

and because it was so large.

Definately the one we enjoyed the most!

Here is the Blue Morpho with its wings open.

It was hard to photograph the blue side because usually as soon as it rested it closed its wings, but I managed to catch this one in a corner resting with open wings.

Gorgeous color!

I don't know the names of the other butterflies.

Pretty, but much smaller.

Most of the butterflies were a different variety
than I saw last summer at the Butterfly house, but this one was a repeat.
Its wings were longer and narrower than most others.


This butterfly was very busy, its wings going quickly and constantly,
so I set my camera to sports and took a bunch of pictures in a row,
and they came out not too badly considering how quickly the wings were going.

I loved its long tails!