We visited a butterfly farm, where local butterflies are bred and live. Here we are looking at the pupae, as the caterpillars transform.
Here the butterflies are eating.
This one landed on my hand.
Here they are sitting on some leaves, some might be laying eggs on them.
Nice blue morphos!
This one landed on Tycho's head!
Baby Hadley with her Daddy.
Kids never stop moving.
Cassie has developed a propensity for making funny faces when getting her picture taken.
Butterflies everywhere!
These ones are sunning themselves -- the fog had just burned off a half hour or so before.
Butterfly eggs!
These butterflies are eating fruit. Slightly rotten fruit works best, so that they can get their probosci in.
Here we are walking to the caterpillar room.
Here's a bunch of eggs on these leaves.
Here the kids are seeing caterpillars living in little containers with leaves in them.
Here's the owner, with a caterpillar just attached to a stick, just starting to pupate.
Another one of the owners, cutting leaves for caterpillar food.
Tycho's investigating this husk of a tarantula.
Cassie found this scarf that we bought for her.
Great hummingbirds at the feeders here, too.
