Washington Area Butterfly Club

Photos from the WABC field trip to the Museum of Natural History's New Butterfly Pavilion, March 29, 2008

WABC member Nate Erwin, a Smithsonian entomologist, arranged for the club to have a behind-the-scenes tour of the new Partners in Evolution exhibit. Click on a photo to view a larger image.

gathering for tour museum rotunda
exhibit sign line at pavilion
inside the pavilion
 blue butterfly
members tour the pavilion butterfly on hat
Birdwing butterfly gold chrysalids
orange butterfly outside of the pavilion
museum display tall museum display

Black butterfly with blue markings.

You can learn more about the Partners in Evolution butterfly pavilion at the Smithsonian's Web site at: http://www.butterflies.si.edu/ .

Posted March 30, 2008