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March Morpho Mania Offers Brilliant Butterflies and Blooms
Blue Morphos are the stars, but butterflies and other insects from around the world provide entertainment and education for visitors.
In one stride, visitors to the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield go from a low humidity temperate zone to a steamy tropical jungle. A fairyland of dancing, vibrant colors – both butterflies and blooms – bursts on the inside of the Butterfly House’s 7,900-square-foot Tropical Conservatory. Blue Morphos, the sky blue stars of the March Morpho Mania exhibit, are seemingly everywhere, meandering up, down and sideways like performing marionettes, stopping to feed on nectar or rotting bananas, racing from brilliant pink variegated orchids to searing red hibiscus blooms and darting in and out of thick foliage in endless games of tag. These blue beauties from Costa Rica are joined by a rainbow assortment of winged friends from around…
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