When I was a kid it seems like there were so many butterflies around. And kids spent so much more time outside, running around, digging in the dirt. I wanted to help return kids to that. For preschoolers, the conservatory hosts Butterfly Story Hour on Wednesday afternoon. Now, it's unlikely kids are going to throw away their Game Boys in fits of butterfly ecstasy, but these insect acrobats in their fancy colors do captivate children's imaginations and, some would say, bring out the child in all of us.
Butterflies are different.
And they have so many colors, they really spark the creative impulses of kids. Children love to draw them. When adults come to the conservatory, they tune in to their child-minds and recapture a sense of innocence and wonder, Rulewich says. The spermatophores, deposited by the male, fertilize the eggs as they pass through the ovarian duct. But the sex lives of butterflies are not that simple.