Three days should be enough in a dry place for rigidity to set in. Keep your butterfly out of direct light and away from the kitchen, so oily particles and dust do not collect on it. Frame it as soon as possible or keep it in a box with mothballs or silica gel. Bacteria in the butterflies can begin to grow and destroy a dry butterfly. Mothballs prevent this, though ours have done well storing with only silica gel.
Moth balls stink and the smell gets into everything.
In the Scripture at the top of this page, the apostle Paul beams with hope. I can understand how Paul will consider all his hardships and beatings worthwhile then. God had already brought about a marvelous transformation in Paul's heart. When we are pinned down in life, as Paul was on many occasions, we can be sure that God is making a beautiful spectacle of our situation that most often we cannot see yet. I wonder what kind of glorious patterns God has orchestrated with the struggles in my life.