Butterfly Museum

Friday, November 26, 2010

The day after Thanksgiving we took Gabriella to the Florida Museum of Natural History, on the UF campus, to check out the Butterfly Exhibit. It was amazing. They have a "rainforest" set up that you can walk through and see all the different kinds of butterflies that they are breeding. The butterflies are flying all around you while you walk through. It was really awesome.

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies/

Gabriella loved pulling out the drawers and checking out some of the dried specimens

checking out the butterfly cocoons

just one of the beautiful species that they have flying around

Blowing at the butterfly to try and get it to move

Check out the giant moth behind Gabriella

Later that day we took everyone to the UF bat house. At about dusk thousands of bats fly out to eat all night.