Moving into the second, indoor room of the butterfly exhibit, we were greeted with a dense & beautiful garden filled with orchids of all sizes & varieties:
Butterflies were everywhere! Some were easy to spot, but you were often rewarded for standing still & looking carefully:
Sometimes you just had to look down:
There was a large case filled with hanging chrysalides (yes, I had to look up the plural form):
More exotic plants:
And the crown jewel of the collection, the blue morpho. But wait, this guy is so drab. Why do they call it that?
Aha! The morphos were very large & fluttered gently but swiftly around the room, grazing everyone's heads. When they landed they closed their wings immediately, making them tough to photograph with that brilliant cyan showing:
Apparently they like to eat bananas, which were tucked all over the room.
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