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Marvelous Clear-Winged Butterfly

Clearwing Butterfly

Talk about transparency! It's all right out there for everyone to see.

Most people have never seen one of these amazing beauties - only about 2" long.

This photo was taken at Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Every year in March and April they have thousands of butterflies hatch. They fly around, sometimes landing on people, or on the many blooming orchids and tropical plants in the giant atrium greenhouse - complete with waterfall.

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Posted by Lynn Afton, REALTOR® in area surrounding Big Rapids, & Mecosta County Michigan on 10/08/2008 04:44 PM

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15 Comments on Marvelous Clear-Winged Butterfly

OCT

2008

Okay, How could people not comment on this? LOVELY! Goes to show you that even the smallest things can be beautiful.

OCT

2008

Lynn, What a incredible butterfly. You really captured it perfectly. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for sharing your photo... i have never seen a clear winged butterfly...

Great butterfly but an even greater photograph! I have been practicing on insects on the macro functions of my camera .

Lynn- That photo is beautiful! If you enjoy butterflies, there is a butterfly house on Put-In-Bay in Lake Erie. The house is full of thousands of butterflies and you can walk through while they fly around and even land on you. I highly recomend it!!

I love it! I am so interested in photography. If I could afford to buy a professional camera, I'd be in hog heaven! At least I can enjoy looking at everyone else's photos =)

Cat - Yes, even bugs can be beautiful!

Hi Bob -thanks for stopping by :)

Trey - this was taken with a Kodak digital with the close-up lens

Kaira - Sounds similar to Meijer Gardens - I'll have to get down that way and check it out.

Lisa - not a professional camera. I won it at one of our annual meetings, and another a month later at our state convention a couple years ago. I went out and bought a lottery ticket then, but it didn't help. :)

OCT

2008

What an incredible picture. Don't you wish there was that much transparency on Wall Street?

OCT

2008

Never seen one of those before. Thanks for sharing.

How exciting! I just had my first SLR class. I would love to get to the point where I can take wonderful photos like the one you shoot above. Very impressive.

OCT

2008

WOW! That does it--I am headed to Grand Rapids first chance I get. It helps that my best friend lives in Farmington, so she'll go with me to the gardens!

Cheers,

Robin

Lynn-

Very nice capture! Very interesting image, keep up the good work.

Hi Lynn,

That butterfly is absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing your photo.

: )

OCT

2008

Lynn, I've never seen a butterfly with transparent wings. This is an amazing photo. Thanks for sharing it.

valerie osterhoudt

Lynn, Did you take that? It is beautiful.... My friend Russel Ray has a great group inspired by nature, he would love this blog in his group. Check them out. http://activerain.com/groups/inspiredbynature

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