One of the butterflies that I observed this past weekend at the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Columbus, Ohio was this spectacular Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides), a species whose normal habitat is the tropical forests of Latin America.
In the past when I have visited butterfly exhibitions, I have found it amazingly difficult to catch this butterfly with its wings open, but this one was surprisingly cooperative and posed for a moment to let me get this shot.
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Mike Powell 
Great color!
gorgeous
Great colour and a previous image by the sound of it Mike!
that was meant to say precious!
Congratulations, Mike, on your beautiful Blue Morph photo. How wonderful of it to pose for you and how wonderful of you not to get so excited that you missed the shot completely!! That is spoken from my usual experience 🙂 . I hate when that happens!
Boy would I love to see one of those in person!! This is second best. Ahhh.
Mike – sorry about my typo when I commented on your butterfly – I called it a Blue Morph!! Obviously, I meant Morpho:). Anyway, I was trying to figure out how I could include a photo in this comment, but I guess I can’t. I wanted you to see why your photo looked so familiar to me!!! If I sent you my e-mail address in the comments, would you be willing to let me know how I could send you a photo? If not, I certainly would understand :). Thanks!