cotswolds holiday-day 3

It rained
It rained in style and didn't stop raining, all day.
And, as a direct result of this, we decided to check out the Stratford butterfly farm to see what it was like. It was great, such a variety of butterfly's! there was however one major downside, that you couldn't collect the dead ones. Morons! what do they want with dead butterfly's. I'll bet they don't make boxes and stick pins through them!!!! Still, rant over there were some pretty impressive butterfly's, including one of my favourites; the zebra longwing. Another rather annoying catch was the poor light in the building which meant that I couldn't really take the photos I wanted. But the butterfly's I saw are listed below, and I checked the species types with an official card so they are right!!

Glasswing
greta oto

caterpillars

the Flame

Dryas julia

zebra longwing

heliconius charitonius

jay tailed butterfly

Graphium agamemnon

clipper

parthenos sylvia

malachite

siproeta stelenes

the postman

heliconius melpomene

Hecales longwing

Heliconius hecale

cracker

hamadryas amphinome

indian leaf (underside)

kallima paralekta

jay tailed butterfly

Graphium agamemnon

plain tiger

danaus chrysippus

malachite

siproeta stelenes

unknown

emerald swallowtail

papilio palinurus

they even had some (carefully chosen) birds within the houses, top some sunbird and the bottom will be a familiar bird to most london residents-ring necked parakeet

zebra longwing

Heliconius charitonius

zebra longwing
Heliconius charitonius

plain tiger

Danaus chrysippus

unknown

flame

Dryas julia

owl butterfly

caligo beltrao

unknown

Ismenius longwing

heliconius hecale

eastern rosella

Indian leaf (upperside)

kallima paralekta

tree nymph

idea leuconoe

quail X (although probably a Chinese button quail)

did not do anything besides this all day, although we did a bit of shopping in Stratford. Saw the house where Shakespeare was born but besides that there was nothing!