Catching Butterflies

Maddie has a book about a little girl trying to catch a butterfly. So that gave Grandma and I the idea that we should go to Botanica and see the newly hatching butterflies. It's the only time you can actually catch a butterfly. Every year they bring in new butterflies for the Butterfly House. The ship them as cocoons. And then when they hatch they are not ready to fly just yet. So that is when you can hold them for about 20 minutes before they fly away. Maddie only held them for a little while because it felt funny, but she loved being close to them.