Mixed Blessing. Tropical Blue Wave Butterfly, Myscelia cyaniris, Amsterdam Zoo ARTIS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"The Zoo's wonderful Butterfly House to me is a mixed blessing. It's a safe and nicely warm place for sitting on a tree trunk - as is my wont - contemplating the world. So I'm really quite content, and there are lots of fellow Waves around as well in case I'm in an amorous mood. But...
You know, I'm fond of rotting fruit - they don't really put out enough to my taste though. And that real delicacy: dung. Oh! none of that here in this tidy place. Sometimes I get a whiff from an unchanged diaper; but how wonderful it would be outdoors in the Zoo where there are animal droppings galore. A waft of odorous wind through the plastic-stripped door often sets my stomach all aflutter.
I'm not carping, though; we're really taken care of well, but it's not like home in Tropical America."
Mixed Blessing. Tropical Blue Wave Butterfly, Myscelia cyaniris, Amsterdam Zoo ARTIS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"The Zoo's wonderful Butterfly House to me is a mixed blessing. It's a safe and nicely warm place for sitting on a tree trunk - as is my wont - contemplating the world. So I'm really quite content, and there are lots of fellow Waves around as well in case I'm in an amorous mood. But...
You know, I'm fond of rotting fruit - they don't really put out enough to my taste though. And that real delicacy: dung. Oh! none of that here in this tidy place. Sometimes I get a whiff from an unchanged diaper; but how wonderful it would be outdoors in the Zoo where there are animal droppings galore. A waft of odorous wind through the plastic-stripped door often sets my stomach all aflutter.
I'm not carping, though; we're really taken care of well, but it's not like home in Tropical America."