At the Detroit Zoo butterfly room, there are hundreds of butterflies and some of them will land on your finger!
This, thanks to an anonymous commenter, is the malachite butterfly, Siproeta stelenes. One of the interesting things about it is how different it looks when the wings are opened or closed.
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I love the colors! What is it?
WHOW, what a wonderful and excellent photo. Great!
Oh, my! How very, very, VERY beautiful! I love this photo.
Amazing. These butterflies must be used to visitors, unlike wild ones.
The photo is so intriguing.
Super shot. Too bad there are not as many butterflies in the wild as there once were (or at least it seems that there are not as many butterflies).
Beautiful photo.
These creatures are so fragile, its lovely to see they are being protected here.
thanks so much erin, michi, fenix, viola, north bay and crazy cow for your visit and comments!
Erin, I have idea what kind of butterfly that was. I did not see anywhere a key to what butterflies were there and I have no idea where it was from, either. But there sure were gazillions of them. I may post more.
Crazy cow, how do I find you? Post a link on your little blogger page to your real blog--or here.
Crazy cow: "If you're a Blogger user, we encourage you to enable access to your Profile." You can put a link in it to your blog.
very cool. I enjoyed this one. The blue background is phenomenal.
Thnaks, Shek--I was lucky on that---it was someone's shirt!
It's a Malachite butterfly, my personal favorite. What a treat to have it shoose to land on you. The zoo does provide laminated sheet to carry trough the exhibit and try to identify the butterflies you see. New ones are always being added though, so they are not all on sheet.
Thanks, anonymous. If the zoo has such a thing, we were not informed or made aware of it and no one else had them and there were no interpreters int here to help. But I really appreciate your help! THANKS! Mary
I like that name, too!
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