Today the Colarusso’s went to The Butterfly Place armed with sketchbooks. They suggest you dress like a flower (bright colors et al.) in hopes that the butterflies might land on you. 10yo drew some flowers, and one landed on his hand #FTW! I sketched a butterfly. #butterflies#sketch
Back to Denk and Copper Creek for #butterflies . The numbers were definitely up today, if not the species. Nice Mourning Cloak serving as guardian to the trail entrance.
Saw some kind of Blue right off, but could not get it to land. So I have some doubts over which Blue it is. Fair level of confidence it’s a Reakirt’s . #butterflies
There's a part of the walk around the Summer Leys Reserve is a small meadow known as 'Butterfly Meadow'. Here I saw a few butterflies and bees. This one is an Orange Tip Butterfly that was flying between flowers
Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian#lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵 #printmaking#womenInSTEM#histstm