http://www.kidsbutterfly.org/
I just sent this site to my son and daughter-in-law and her mother, who is a butterfly fancier.
If you catch the photos on the Red Bubble widget above, you will see my latest "catch", a Polydamus swallowtail on the plant clerodendrum. The butterflies (so few this year) are eating and getting ready for migration now. A great time to introduce the children to this most beautiful insect.
If you have roadside wildflowers that haven't been mowed, or have a field in which the late wildflowers are blooming, just take a walk into it, stand there for 10 minutes and really look at what is around you. Down under your feet, up to your knees, your waist, eye level, above your head. You don't need a net. You just need to look and take a camera and a kid with you.
Talk about what you see, take a picture and when you get back home, identify these marvels on the net.
This is my private heaven - to steal some time wherever I am and just observe, take photos, watch for the small dramas unfold (that green spider with the sloppy web is out to pounce on a butterfly, a moth, a carpenter bee, a wasp - and she'll get him).
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