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With a Jazzy Leafwing, a Rusty Tip, a Silver Spot, a Doris Longwing, a Blue Morpho, a Malachite and a Variable Cracker in hand, students from Hiatt Middle School carefully released butterflies at Reiman Gardens on this week followed by a tour of the grounds and the entomology lab. Through a partnership with the @chrysalis_foundation students have been learning to use film cameras with photography instructor Dan Troxell. He says, “This photography program is about giving students the greatest opportunities to help them grow and to teach self-esteem. It offers them exposure to something new that they wouldn’t normally have access to, and it’s an absolute pure joy for me to do that.”

Hiatt’s Jamie Wilkens explains, "Our goal this year was to build a community where the students felt comfortable to have new experiences and to have them thinking about what their future might look like."

A butterfly release might just be the perfect metaphor for those formative middle school years. Wilkens adds, “These butterflies have been through a very transformative time and now they’re being released, and it’s the same with middle school. By the time they leave, we want them to be able to fly.”

To read more about the programs, visit: www.chrysalisfdn.org or www.facebook.com/thebutterflyeffectindesmoines/

(Jon Lemons/Des Moines Public Schools)

Fountainea cf. ryphea by Bigal River Conservation Project

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Order Lepidoptera-

Suborder Rhopalocera-

Superfamily Papilionidea-

Family Nymphalidae-

Subfamily Charaxinae-

Tribe Anaeini-

Flamingo Leafwing-

October 2009-

Thanks Kim Garwood for IDing this!

Text by Adrian Hoskins

www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/

Tropical Leafwing by jeffrey michael bearce

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Garden Canyon. Cochise co,Az

florida leafwing ventral 170514 dsc07233 gate 10 long pine key everglades np fl by Frank Model

P1040493 Skeletonized (Itys) Leafwing--Zaretis itys by Susan Brown

APUYA TRAIL, NAPO, ECUADOR

BSAm--P246

LIFER #548

Fountainea_nessus_d/v_7321_Nessus_Leafwing by Susan Hengeveld

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3/22/10 - Along driveway of lodge; same individual as #7316.

zaretis itys [itys leafwing] ventral 140120 1025624 se brazil marica by Frank Model

Pale-Spotted Leafwing PC048913focPr by jvpowell

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near Aduana Arroyo, just downstream of Alamos, Sonora, Mexico.

P1290504 Memphis anna, Inky Leafwing by Andrew Neild

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Tiger Leafwing by d_smets

Consul fabius

Mombacho, Nicaragua

Tropical Leafwing by jeffrey michael bearce

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Madera Canyon.Pima co,Az

Anaea andria, Goatweed leafwing butterfly by Tripp Davenport

Cook's Slough Nature Park, Uvalde Co. Tx.

Goatweed leafwing by Jim McCulloch

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Anaea andria. This butterfly is very colorful when its wings are open; when they are folded it looks like a dead leaf. The larval foodplant is a croton called goatweed.

Pale-Spotted Leafwing PC048901focPr by jvpowell

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near Aduana Arroyo, just downstream of Alamos, Sonora, Mexico.

Near-drowning recovery: Tropical Leafwing, Anaea aidea by Matt Brown

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14 March 2023; Red Mountain Road, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, AZ.

Hypna clytemnestra (Dorsal) by Bigal River Conservation Project

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Suborder Rhopalocera-

Superfamily Papilionoidea-

Family Nymphalidae-

Subfamily Charaxinae-