Butterflies for my birthday!

This year on my birthday, I decided to spend some time with the butterflies at the Sophia M. Sacks Butterfly House in St Louis. Boy did I have a lovely time! The butterflies were very active and it was a great opportunity to learn how to use my camera a little faster. I didn't get nearly as many or as good shots as my time at the Butterfly Pavilion - did I mention these little guys were very active? - but I had a great time walking among them! Here were some of my favorite shots - and some of the only ones that ended up being in focus:

 The Owl Butterfly - Caligo memnon

 The Postman - Heliconius melpomene stichelli

 The Paper Kite - Idea leuconoe

 The Metallic Blue Wave (I think...it was not listed on their brochure)

 Orange Shoemaker - Catonephele orites (I think)

 A female Great Egg Fly - Hypolimnas bolina

 The Cloudless Sulpher (again, I think) - Phoebis sennae

 The Orange Julia - Dryas julia - or this might be the Orange Tiger - Dryadula phaetusa

 The Paper Kite - Idea leuconoe

 The Great Mormon - Papilio memnon

 The Common Blue Morpho - Morpho peleides

 Scarlet Peacock (I think) - Anartia amathea

A Ruby Lacewing - Cethosia hypsea

I also got some neat video footage, but that'll take me a little longer to put together...

All photos copyright Katrina Kouba Boles

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