June 2010, by NICK SHUBIN

Butterflies

Odessa, Ukraine

The exhibition of butterflies regularly takes place in the local gardening supermarket. This year there weren't tablets with the descriptions. I guess that these butterflies are from the South America.

The workers gave butterflies some fruits, but the latter preferred overripe bananas. Interestingly that the flowers didn't attract butterflies.

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… is going to be a butterfly too.

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Baby-butterflies

Newborn butterflies wait several hours until their wings are strong enough to fly.

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Cocoons

Some resemble a caterpillar.

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Others look like a leaf.

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The largest cocoon is almost 5 cm long (2 inches).

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These cocoons are transparent and you can see a future butterfly inside.

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…and even future tracery on the wings.

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This cocoon looks like a big egg that is about 4 cm (1 1/2 in) long.

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