The Milwaukee Public Museum in Wisconsin, USA has a wonderful section, a large atrium type area, devoted to live butterflies. After you enter this area you find many varieties of these gorgeous butterflies are flying freely all around you. Some of them even landing on you. Before you leave you generally need to have someone de-butterfly you before you exit. It's an amazing experience! This card reminds me of that. Although in this case my butterflies are pure white. I decided to put the color behind them. And then I thought the darker border would be a nice contrast with the white.
We seem to be having a decline in butterflies again in our area. I thought I would put together a butterfly something-or-other that I saw in a magazine, to attract them. What you do is get a pie plate shaped container and fill it with sand. Then add water to keep it moist. This is supposed to attract all kinds of butterflies as they will LOVE to drink from it. I lost my original directions for this concoction, but it seemed pretty simple to make to me. I think maybe I didn't get it right though because all it attracted was wasps. Never saw a butterfly on it. But now we definitely had a wasp problem. In fact we had a certain type of wasp that the bug man who came to eradicate the huge wasp nest said was an especially aggressive type that if you even just swat or step on one of these wasps the whole nest of them will head your way to attack you. The nest had been attached to the peak of the small roof over our entry door. Never even noticed it being built...until we started to notice an abundance of wasps in the yard. The nest is now a large lifeless hulk still attached to the roof peak and slowly dissolving into a small lifeless hulk. Evidently, according to our bug man, the Gutless Wonder (not his commercial name), those nests don't detach all that easily and leave a mess on your siding. OOPS! I guess I should have searched a little harder for the directions for my butterfly something-or-other.....but I'm sure those directions didn't say anything about a playground for killer wasps.
Date: Thursday, August 11, 2016 GMT Views: 587
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Registered: May 23, 2009 Location: sunny california Posts: 9825
Thu, Aug 11, 2016 @ 8:59 PM
I love your card and enjoyed your descriptive write up. There must be an easier and safer way to attract butterfiies.....for what you paid the bug man, you probably could have bought a whole bunch of butterflies. Your card is so pretty. I love the white butterflies against the colorful background. Great job
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Sat, Aug 13, 2016 @ 6:52 PM
It's is so hard to laugh and type at the same time. Your killer wasp story is a hoot Miss Ellen and certainly the last thing I expected to read on seeing this beautiful butterfly card. I love it all.
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