2024—Scarlet and Black

The Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium is a marvelous place in Montana to experience the incredible beauty of butterflies, most from Asia, Central America, and Africa. The display is filled with hundreds of different butterflies, in different colors and sizes including the giant Blue Morpho that I had just as much difficulty photographing at the Butterly House as I did in its native country of Costa Rica. This is a male Scarlet Mormon. I was struck by the similarity of the scarlet on his wings to the scarlet on the flower from which he sipped nectar. And, as a bonus, an orange Ladybug (part of the Insectarium, I suppose) was visiting the same flower.