Butterfly Preserve at the University of Florida Museum of Natural History. This is just a slow walk through so you can see if you’d like to visit or not. Since it costs seven to ten bucks to get in, I thought it fair to give a preview so you can see if it is worth it or not. Saturdays and Sundays they do scheduled live releases of large numbers of butterflies.
Oh, if you bring a backpack, tell them it is a “man-bag” or they refuse to let you in with it even though your friend has a big ‘ol open bag but, since she is a girl, she can get away with it. You will have to prove it and wear it around your waist because that, apparently, is the only way to wear a man-bag. Telling them it is not the same as a fanny pack, won’t help. Oh, your wife,sister, daughter or girlfriend can carry her bag however she likes.
I guess guys like smuggling butterflies but girls don’t. Or maybe birds. I got no idea. Sexism at it’s finest.
You can also see the hatchery, watch the cocoons open, the butterflies come out. Most make it but some die. Some of those are frozen or mounted. The ones that die wet, apparently, are had to get off your hands and we watched the entomologist, or maybe just a person in charge of the butterfly hatchery that day, having trouble getting butterfly off her hands and finally wiping the leftover butterfly on her pants.
It’s not a great video, to be sure. Just me and my digital camera.
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