Our wonderful botanical garden has a butterfly house and research facility in the exurbs. It's far enough from home that we don't go often but Ellie likes it. They arranged a special event for the month by shipping in a thousand blue morphos from their station in Costa Rica.
These are tough little buggers to photograph. They won't sit still and pose, leading to this so-so picture in which you can't see the head or body. The iridescent color comes from an amazingly complex evolutionary process, which you could read up on at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpho_menelaus. More of this to come.
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