Butterflies

Ukraine, Odessa, June 2010

The exhibition of butterflies regularly takes place in the local gardening supermarket. This year there weren't tablets with the descriptions. I guess that these butterflies are from the South America.

The workers gave butterflies some fruits, but the latter preferred overripe bananas. Interestingly that the flowers didn't attract butterflies.

… is going to be a butterfly too.

Baby-butterflies

Newborn butterflies wait several hours until their wings are strong enough to fly.

Cocoons

Some resemble a caterpillar.

Others look like a leaf.

The largest cocoon is almost 5 cm long (2 in).

These cocoons are transparent and you can see a future butterfly inside.

…and even future tracery on the wings.

This cocoon looks like a big egg that is about 4 cm (1 1/2 in) long.

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