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As with all leafwing butterflies, this species relies on exquisite camouflage to avoid predators. An endangered species found only in the Everglades National Park.
A species of leafwing butterfly. Taken within the grounds of Sky Adventures, located near the town of Santa Elena in the Monteverde area.
For more information about this butterfly, please click on the links below:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consul_fabius
Goatweed Leafwing near McClure Cave, Crawford Co., MO, 100401. Anaea andria. Nymphalidae: Charaxinae
Goatweed Leafwing - Hodges#4554 (Anaea andria) on Croton fruticulosus
TEXAS: Travis Co.
Zilker Botanical Garden; Austin
2-May-2015
J.C. Abbott & K.K. Abbott
Fountainea ryphea (Flamingo Leafwing). Photographed at Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge, Cusco, Peru on 31 October 2010.
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)