Our Butterflies

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Some of the butterflies we have reared from the stage of egg, through caterpillar and pupa to adult butterfly.

                       


                                                                  Lime Butterfly

 

 

                                                   


                                                                    Glassy Tiger

                 


                                                Mottled Emigrant (this one has two drops of the fluid in its wing that it squeezed out from the body as it emerges from its pupa)

             

                                                                            


                                                                   Glassy Tiger

                                                                         


                                                              Lime Butterfly

                                                           


                                                            Lime Butterfly

                                                                 


                                                            Lime Butterfly

                                               


                                               Common grass yellow

                                                  


                                                          Mottled Emigrant

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