October in the Springs Preserve Butterfly Habitat

 

 Blue Morpho Butterfly

 

 Blue Morpho Butterfly 2

Brown Siproeta Butterfly

 

 Brown Siproeta Butterfly with wings open

 

 Forest Giant Owl Butterfly

 

 Forest Giant Owl Butterfly 2



Beauties and the Beasts

It's official! The Springs Preserve butterfly habitat in Las Vegas is now open! 500 painted lady and mourning cloak butterflies were released inside on September 18, 2014. It was an amazing amount of work to complete, but the end results are stunning. Here are a few shots of our painted lady butterflies as well as some large desert hairy scorpions that I had to relocate from one of the public areas on site. I love the diversity of my workplace. :)

 Painted lady on one of the fountains

 

 I love the pink and gold lantana in the butterfly habitat

 

 Painted lady on a daisy

 

 Minutes after release this lady was enjoying stretching her wings

 

The Desert hairy scorpion has a sting that is about as painful as a honey bee sting unlike the bark scorpion which is smaller but has a sting that is more like liquid fire.

 

 These guys were not too happy about being relocated

 

I love that the tub used to capture and hold my scorpion friends had a sticker that said "Time to Reorder". :)



Bee Nice

A few of my favorite bee and bee fly shots :)

 

Cute lil bee fly

 



 Bee in prickley pear cactus bloom

 Love the pink, orange, and green hues

 Soft focus is almost ethereal

 

This bee fly had beautiful patterns and colors on its wings



Fuzzy Cuteness that is the Skipperling Butterfly

Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

 Bee in the morning light

 Tarantula Hawk Spider Wasp

Yellow butterfly

Green Damselfly

 Cicada husk

Dragonfly

Dragonflies!

I caught a couple of nice dragonfly shots. I love how they look like they have a smile on their faces!