Butterfly Garden

One of our day trips took us to the Monte Verde rain forest. While we were there we spent some time in a Butterfly Garden. There are 24,000 species of butterflies in the world and Costa Rica has about 2000 species. There are 16 species housed in this Butterfly Garden.

This butterfly has beautiful blue wings. Underneath its wings are brown and the color helps the butterfly camouflage itself.

This is the owl butterfly, due to the "owl eyes" on its wings.

Butterflies love to eat fermented fruit. When the fruit is fermented it's easier for the butterflies to take in the nectar.