Personally...

... I ´d rather be a caterpillar than a butterfly.

Botanical Garden, Utrecht & Passiflorahoeve

another day off spent butterflying

Heliconius hecale egg

Heliconius hecale

egg laying

caterpillar of heliconius hecale

first steps with the stereomicroscope....

Proboscis (Butterfly tongue)

Scales on butterfly wing

Four species (at least)

have laid eggs in the Butterfly house now. These are heliconid eggs.

the new toy arrived

Butterfly eggs from Papilionid, on citrus

 

Unfortunately I got the wrong adapter for  my dslr so I just took the first pics with my compact camera on the lens

Butterfly Transport from Emsbüren to Papenburg