Lovely Lepidoptera
The butterfly garden at the Florida Museum of Natural History is a gorgeous site. I wouldn’t mind having something similar in my backyard; an aviary of fine mesh and butterflies dancing about.
Of course, I’d have to keep only Florida natives. And it would be a tremendous amount of upkeep to maintain a stable population. The adults just don’t last very long.
Then again, if I could raise painted lady butterflies in the dead of winter in Delaware for entomology class I suppose keeping zebra wing butterflies in Florida might not pose such a hurdle. I wonder if they can also exist on grape jelly. Or perhaps I should be feeding them something much more organic?
