Comments on: Framed Butterflies

By: coleen

coleen — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 11:37:12 +0000

i am looking for a yellow or orange butterfy either framed for a special young lady that has aspers and works with be at walmart.i need to stay around 25-30 dollars.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:04:41 +0000

These are gorgeous and my daughter's kindergarten class raised a ton of butterflies that they released into a butterfly garden. Sadly, butterflies only live an average of two weeks after they leave their cocoon so I actually think this is a beautiful way of preserving them!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:32:39 +0000

I don't think this is creepy, but I do think it's a generally undesirable practice. Perhaps there are some people who raise butterflies just for this purpose, and perhaps many are vintage pieces. But I do know I saw a number of blue morpho butterflies among the displays, and they are a tropical species to which "Humans provide a direct threat…because their beauty attracts artists and collectors from all over the globe who wish to capture and display them" (quote from rainforest-alliance.org). I did fieldwork in Ecuador myself and can confirm seeing whole pictures made out of severed butterfly wings including morphos. Please think twice about whether your desire to decorate your house in a particular manner is worth the possible extirpation of a species.

By: Jess

Jess — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:19:20 +0000

I LOVE using framed insects. Two tips for ya though:

1) Before purchasing, do a simple search online to make sure that the insects you're purchasing are not on an endangered watch list. There's actually a huge problem of butterfly and beetle poaching.

2) When you have your lovely framed prize, keep it out of direct sunshine, and it will keep its color and quality.