Botanical Garden of the Ozarks - Butterfly Pavilion

I visited the Garden yesterday, Oct. 4, 2011, to see the new Butterfly Pavilion.  It is a small screened in enclosure shaped like a butterfly and located at the rear of the Gardens.  Here are pictures of the Pavilion and some of the butterflies found in the Pavilion and throughout the Garden.  In spite of the hot and dry weather this summer the Garden looked beautiful.  Visit if you have a chance.

There were several kinds of  insects feasting on the flowers.

One of the butterflies.

Another butterfly

Entrance walk to the Butterfly Pavilion

The Butterfly Pavilion and the volunteer enjoying the wonderful weather

Volunteer and a newly hatched butterfly.  It was still wet and not flying.

Another butterfly picture.

And still another

And another.  The garden was full of butterflies.

This one spent the entire time I was in the Pavilion trying to escape.

Too many opportunities for photos to pass up.  I just kept snapping.

I was going for the butterfly but the camera focused on the insect in the foreground.

Now it is focused on the butterfly and in insect is out of focus.