This visit to Boulder’s neighbor, the Broomfield Butterfly Pavilion, offered more variety and more sheer numbers of butterflies than I’ve seen before.

Papilio memnon may be a Chinese Windmill butterfly

Zebra Longwing Butterfly, Heliconius charithonia

Probiscus in profile on the Zebra Long Wing

The proboscis on a butterfly serves as its feeding tube. It is a long, coiled, tubular mouthpart used to sip nectar from flowers. When a butterfly feeds, it uncoils its proboscis and inserts it into the flower to reach the nectar deep inside. The proboscis can also be used to suck up other fluids like water and tree sap. This specialized structure allows butterflies to feed efficiently while keeping their wings free and mobile for flight.

This happy hitchhiker butterfly either needs glasses or is visiting. They were attracted to my camera hot shoe. I believe this is a Chinese Windmill. While the butterfly cooperated, the light proved challenging.

While there were blue morph butterflies everywhere, they did not hold still long enough and I was not lucky enough to photograph a single one! Most of the others were hamming it up for the camera! Only the heat and humidity of the habitat finally forced me from the habitat, not any lack of subjects.

Lenny Lensworth Frieling

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