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AT HOME WITH KAYLA PRICE 9/23: Butterflies

AT HOME WITH KAYLA PRICE 9/23: Butterflies
  • PublishedSeptember 23, 2022


Butterflies

Two butterflies were fluttering around Archie (my adorable West Highland Terrier) earlier in the week as he smelled every blade of grass for signs of trespassers. It was one of those photo ops that I kick myself for not having my phone with me.

They were brown butterflies with circles on their wings. Maybe it was a common buckeye butterfly or a tropical buckeye butterfly, but I am not too sure. That is the thing with butterflies…often they are gone before you can get a good look at them.

If you stop and think about butterflies, they are pretty amazing creatures. These little insects start as caterpillars and end as butterflies, most of which only live about a month.

A few years ago on a visit to Fairchild Gardens in Florida, we visited the butterfly garden which housed some beautiful and interesting types of butterflies. My favorite was the American glass wing butterfly.

Looking back at my photos, I think I have a photo of the two that were haloing Archie.

Butterflies have been used for years as a symbol of hope and renewal. Joplin Missouri has adopted the butterfly as a symbol of the 2011 F5 tornado that devastated the city and took that claimed approximately 167 lives.

Ancient societies, authors such as Shakespeare and Yeats, Western culture, Eastern culture, etc. have all adopted their own symbolism for butterflies. Isn’t it amazing to think that such a small, fragile insect can unite cultures and decades with its story?

Whatever fascinates us about butterflies, their beauty is undeniable.

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Contributed by Kayla Price

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Written By
Taylor Nye

Taylor Nye is the editor of Front Porch News. She has degrees from the University of Wisconsin in human biology, Latin American studies, and public health. She has previously worked at the Wisconsin State Journal, Tucson Weekly and Sulphur Springs News-Telegram. As a sixth generation Hopkins County resident, she loves celebrating our heritage and history.