Well, actually, they're not. There's the admission price for the Botanical Gardens plus an additional $4 a head fee to enter the hot house and look at the butterflies.
This batch is from the January-February showing of butterflies from the Tropical Americas. During October and November the Botanical Gardens feature butterflies from Asia and Australis. December is Africa Month with tropical butterflies from that part of the equator.
Quoting from the show brochure - "How to become a Gardens Exhibit Butterfly":
- Grow up on a sanctioned butterfly farm in Costa Rica, Southeast Asia or other tropical location. (Where tropical forests are threatened, butterfly farms are a way for local people to make a living by using the forest instead of cutting it down.)
- During your dormant chrysalis (or pupa) stage you're packed in cotton wool to protect you from transit damage and temperature fluctuations.
- You are couriered to the Gardens. no matter where in the world you originate, you'll arrive in a few days time.
- You're greeted by gardens staff who carefully unpack your chrysalis and mount it in the pupae chamber.
- You emerge from your chrysalis as a magnificent adult butterfly.
Life is short, though. You can count almost the days between youth and middle age with your shoes and socks on. The absence of self awareness is probably an advantage here.
Candy and I went this afternoon. We'd both forgotten about it and we're coming right up against the end of the month and the show.
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