'Alas, poor butterfly! I knew it, Horatio.'

The Black Swallowtail I posted about last week died Thursday night, presumably due to old age. It was 3 months old and a few days. Most Black Swallowtails only live about two weeks, so it had quite a long life. I've pinned him up with the Black Swallowtail from last year that also hatched in the Winter.

Both butterflies together (The one I've posted about on the left, last year's on the right)

The back view of this year's butterfly

 

The front view

 Make her laugh at that.

Cute Things Kids Say: Why?

Child: (Also looking at the naturally dead butterflies) So, why'd you kill 'em?

Cute Things Kids Say: Dead Butterflies

Child: (Upon looking at the dead butterflies pinned up in the library in the Visitor's Center) They don't look much different than the live ones do.

He might have had a point.