Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Butterflies and Plants

With final exams, school projects due, work projects due, and the rest of life, I’ve been stressing and slacking on uploading science photos to my flickr account. I’m glad I took the time to get to it tonight for an hour or so of naturalist zen. Lacking anything more profound, I’ll just say this:

Butterflies are pretty.


Spicebush Swallowtail

Spicebush Swallowtail
Papilio troilus
Credit: Moi

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Butterflies are self propelled flowers. ~R.H. Heinlein

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. ~Richard Buckminster Fuller

Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. ~Author Unknown

See the complete flickr set here

PDF of the Butterfly species at the exhibit here


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