Monday, 14 August 2017

Local Woman Raises Butterflies.





From George Mathewson, The Sarnia Journal.



“See the black spots,” says Rose Tanner, holding a monarch butterfly gently between two fingers.

“That’s a male.”

Identity confirmed, it dances away from her hand, rises above the backyard of her Sarnia home and rejoins the free insect world once more.

For the past 18 years Tanner has been raising butterflies, mostly monarchs but also black swallowtails, red admirals and cabbage whites.

“I just love them, and I’ve always loved them since I was a girl,” she says. “Some people have computers. I have bugs.”





Image:

By Kenneth Dwain Harrelson, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14917505

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