Fluttering by

Having got rather cold wandering round the park we decided to visit the butterfly house.

I've done a bit of Googling and have identified this as a Glasswing butterfly. Aptly named, its wings are quite transparent as it does not have the colour giving scales of other butterflies and moths. The advantage of this is that it makes it hard to follow as it flits about.

An Owl butterfly; as well as the eye spots, this also seems to have snake mimicry. How did this all evolve?

The knock on effect of blogging

A comment on today's picture on Happenstance  set me off on a Google search to find out what this glass is called.

Glass blocks apparently.










From there I was led on the trail to the Maison de Verre in Paris,

to the Crown fountain in Chicago.

and to the  Hermes store in Tokyo.

A meander of knowledge across the world.