Saturday, January 13, 2007

New Butterflies

We have some new guests in the Garden:

The Caligo, or owl butterfly, is an enormous beauty, but considered a pest by banana farmers, because of their immense appetite:



They are rather quick on the wing, so here is one under glass:


And, we just recieved another zippy little Dryadula, who loves to hang out under our lemon tree

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

wow - things are really coming together nicely! we can't wait to visit! JC & JS