Zebra Longwing

Kathleen: I place below the link to the butterfly garden for you. It is the oldest butterfly garden in Monteverde. When I was there for the first time in 2002 it was already there. It is away from town, in the road, half way to the entrance to the Monteverde park entrance but in a secondary road on the right as you are going towards Monteverde park. Some are in outdoor gardens protected by nets and others are in indoors gardens. Later on I had the chance to make pics of butterflies really in the wild but I would have missed all of these species I am posting now if it was not thanks to this garden. Many other people that passes by Monteverde pays a visit to this garden, is worthy :-) http://www.monteverdebutterflygarden.com/

Hi Kathleen: I have seen them in the wild, I think in La Fortuna area but they were always really fast for making pictures. These are living in the Butterfly Garden in Monteverde. They are raised and kept in captivity. The garden people tries to keep species from Costa Rica in three different gardens arranged according to their natural distribution by altitude. :-)