AGA101022 - Ornythion Swallowtail
(by Art G)
(The copyright signature will not appear on
the final printed product)
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This print was photographed in the
newly rebuilt butterfly house in the Southsea Natural History
Museum at Cumberland House in Eastern Parade, Southsea. The
old butterfly house was built as an extension to the main
building in 1986 but was deemed to be in desperate need of
repair, and so construction of a new state of the art
butterfly house began and was completed in August 2017.
We didn't
manage to get along until around a month or so after the
re-opening, and just before it closed it's doors for the
winter. This was probably no bad thing as it seems the
publicity behind the new butterfly house did it's job very
well and over 13,000 visitors attended in the first month
alone, which in itself was a few thousand higher than the
footfall for the whole of 2015.
Cumberland
House is not large as museums go, but it does contain some of
the 114,000 natural science specimens currently held by
Portsmouth Museums, so definitely an interesting and
educational visit. Of course my favourite is the butterfly
house, but another piece of interest is the working beehive,
where the 9,000 or so honey bees raise their young and make
honeycombs. The bees enter and exit the hive via a short
tunnel which connects to the outside and into the gardens,
which just so happen to be planted to attract both bees and
butterflies.
As with
all of the butterflies here, the Ornythion Swallowtail is a
South American species usually found in Guatemala and Mexico,
however it has been seen as far north as southern Texas and
New Mexico. It is quite large in comparison to UK butterfly
species, with a wingspan measuring up to 4.5 inches and are
typically seen in flight as adults between April and
September.
To find
out more about Southsea Natural History Museum please visit:
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