Bill Holmes - Activities - Hiking and Biking - Central America - Lower Dover Day 4
Day 3Madeline at sick friend's house to get shopping list
Panorama from friend's house
Drove to resort to see their butterfly farm. Blue morph butterflies feed on nectar fomented by gnats, mate and lay clear eggs on the underside of leaves.
The eggs hatch into larva poisonous to eat and irritating to touch.
Older larva over an inch long
Old larva over two inches are less poisonous
Mature larva is not poisonous.
It forms a pupa as it liquefies inside.
These are attached with tape to a incubator.
from which flutterbys emerge. The female has an extra row of four white dots on each wing.
Melody and Madeline with flying flutterbys
This is called the tourist tree, because its thin cinamon bark peels like that a gringo's sunburned skin.
Canoeing and other hiking nearby for next time
Traditional departure shot in front of the library
Drive to Guatemala