Blue Morpho Mania! (Another Butterfly Birthday)

For her birthday, my mom decided she wanted to "play hooky" and play with the butterflies in St. Louis. She had read that March Morpho Mania meant thousands more beautiful blues would be flashing their beautiful iridescent scales throughout the tropical conservatory. So we went to the Sophia M. Sacks Butterfly House and had a splendid time with these lovely little creatures. As much as I wanted to just sit and enjoy, I knew I couldn't. So here are some of my favorite photos:

A Green Banded Peacock (Papilio palinuris)

 Some longwings attempting to mate:

 Tiger Longwing (Heliconius hecale)

 Malachite (Siproeta stelenes)

 The Green Jay

 Dead Leaf Butterfly

 Owl Butterfly

 Magnificent Owl Butterfly (Caligo atreus)

 Scarlet Mormon

 A young girl in the conservatory was a favorite of the butterflies. Here's one on her fingers. Later she was carrying around a Blue Morpho that also landed on her fingers. Incredible! And she was so good with them too.

And now the beauties you've been waiting for, Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides)

For more of my butterfly photos, visit these previous posts:

Butterflies for my Birthday

In a World of Butterflies

Butterflies Everywhere! (At the Butterfly Pavilion) 

All photos copyright Katrina Kouba Boles

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