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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 5/26/2013 10:30:00 AM
Sunday, May 26, 2013
[jules' pics] Butterfly
Denver has a Butterfly Pavilion. They ship farmed chrysalises from foreign, and when they hatch, the butterflies are released into the greenhouse, where they die. I suppose this is probably how most butterfly pavilions operate, but it did seem a bit like the greenhouse was the pet that was being fed by butterflies.
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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 5/26/2013 10:30:00 AM
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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 5/26/2013 10:30:00 AM
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technically, the last lepidoteran is a moth, likely Attacus atlas or relative (my name for this is the snakehead giant silk moth.) First one looks like some tropical Nymphalid (seek f.e. Limenitinae) and the name of the middle could be the common green birdwing but not sure. (indonesia, ceylon)
sorry, not limenitinae but limenitidinae (bad error!), some subspecies of Parthenos sylvia, clipper. All might be in Thailand garden section.
sorry again, the birdwing does not live in Thailand, but Papua New Guinea.
The middle butterfly is Australian - a Cairns Birdwing Ornithoptera euphorion - our largest.
I thought the 3rd might be a moth, as we have similar looking ones in Japan...
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