Wolves Wild

Yellow / orange crab apples in late autumn on a tree in a front garden. Were they chosen as a colour match for the Wolves shirts, perhaps?

As part of their conservation work on tropical butterflies, the Stratford on Avon Butterfly Farm have a breeding programme. One room showcases this work, and has a few of the caterpillars on their food plants.

The pair of what look like they might be pupae (aka cocoons) were on the underside of one of the leaves of a banana plant in the big hothouse room.

As promised, this is the final set of butterfly pictures from the Stratford on Avon Butterfly Farm..

All pictures were taken with the phone on a mobile. On previous visits, I used a standalone camera. That gave images of higher quality, and an ability to zoom in on tiny subjects several feet away. But it did also mean I had to wait for the best part of a half hour while the camera acclimatized to the heat and humidity of the hothouse on a cold winter day so that it was no longer misted up. No such problems with a moby, for me at least.

For me, the start of the show at the Butterfly Farm weren’t the insects but the reptiles.

One was a rhino snake from South America: long, thin elegant and vividly green. It was in a vivarium, in a space which was attracting large crowds, so I looked but didn’t

Wandering more freely in the main hothouse area, there’s a pair of iguanas, also from South America. They can be a little hard to spot, preferring to find a comfortable perch igh up, perhaps partly hidden by the luxuriant vegetation. Once they have been spotted, a crowd usually gathers below, looking upwards towards the roof.

Yet more of the pictures of the fabulous tropical butterflies at the Stratford on Avon Butterfly Farm. Only one more batch after these.

More butterfly pictures from the hothouse at Stratford on Avon.