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Butterfly World

Butterfly World, located in Tradewinds Park, Coconut Creek, Florida, opened in 1988 and is the largest butterfly park in the world. It contains over 3,000 live butterflies. The butterflies are bred and live in what is essentially a botanical garden, filled with all sorts of beautiful flowers they can feast upon.

Visiting Butterfly World is a wonderful experience. You can just sit around and watch the butterflies do their thing, and you might even get one or two that will land on your hand and stay there for a bit.

As you walk around, you’ll get to see beautiful flowers like these.

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In the garden – video

This morning, I took my trusty Olympus C-770UZ into our garden here in Romania and shot some video footage in super macro mode. I love the bokeh I get that way, and how close I can get to things.

I found an iridescent beetle sunning itself on some parsley leaves, a butterfly resting on some spinach leaves, two beetles getting it on, a bee collecting pollen on a squash flower, ants drinking nectar on a raspberry blossom, and more.

See the video on SmugMug, Vimeo or YouTube.

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Symbiotic

Found in the garden at Mount Vernon.

Found in the garden at Mount Vernon.

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