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An orange butterfly with open wings feeding among small yellow-orange flowers.

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The garden, the emergence window, Insect World, garden weddings and the gift shop, photographed at the Butterfly House on Mackinac Island.

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In the tropical garden.

The garden

A yellow and black butterfly with veined, open wings feeding on a yellow flower.
Open wings over yellow blooms.
Butterflies crowd a feeding station: brown wings with large eyespots, a blue and white butterfly, and green and orange wings.
A feeding station.
Families walk the brick path through the glass-roofed garden, between raised beds of flowers and vines.
The brick path under the glass roof.
An orange butterfly with open wings feeding among small yellow-orange flowers.
Orange wings, orange blooms.
A smiling staff member in an orange shirt plants flowers among purple salvia beside a metal butterfly sculpture.
Planting day.
A staff member in a purple shirt talks with visitors seated on the low garden wall.
A staff talk among the beds.

Before the wings

The emergence window: rows of chrysalises and newly emerged butterflies behind glass, under a hand-lettered sign.
The emergence window.
Rows of green, gold and brown chrysalises pinned in labelled lines, with newly emerged butterflies resting among them.
Labelled rows of chrysalises.

Insect World

A large horned beetle on a piece of wood.
A horned resident.
A staff member holds an insect on her open hand while four children lean in to look.
A scheduled animal encounter.
The Insect World room: rows of glass terrariums on shelves along a green wall.
The Insect World room.
Visitors look at an insect held up close during an encounter.
Up close, in hand.

Celebrations

A groom in a tan suit slides a ring onto the bride’s finger while the officiant reads.
A ring exchange in the garden.
A girl in a lace dress holds up her hand with a yellow and black butterfly on her fingertip.
A guest and a visitor.

From the gift shop

A clear case holding an arrangement of blue, green, black and white butterflies in front of garden plants.
15×20 Tropical Assortment Butterfly Box.
Heart-shaped silver earrings set with brown and blue butterfly wing, among purple flowers.
Kingshoemaker Butterfly Overlay Earrings.
An oval silver pendant set with green and blue butterfly wing, on pale pink flowers.
Jungle Jade Swallowtail and Blue Morpho Oval Pendant.
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