I have always wanted to collect specimens of butterflies but simply don't have the heart to kill these perfect little jewels. (A couple of pictures are of moths and not butterflies)

These are simply fantastic! The most colors I've seen all day!! - just beautiful! Great clip!!!

Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for clipping these, michelle. I tried to choose a favorite, but couldn't...all of the above!

All OF EM ARENt PREtty..BUt yOU SHOUlD CHECK My CliPPERS OUt tHEY ARE AWESOME FoRREAl

iMEANt tO SAy NiCE CliPPER

Very nice collection!

ran across a blog post today about Taiwan's most beautiful butterfly: http://believe-or-not.blogspot.com/2007/12/most-beautiful-butterfly-selected-in.html

Michelle, tabsey posted a clip yesterday that had a link to download some butterfly clipart. I downloaded the file from the source and the butterfly graphics are really nice. Anyway, I posted them in [url=http://s160.photobucket.com/albums/t171/alanocu/clipmarks/butterflies for michellezm/]my photobucket[/url] if you wanna have a look. You should be able to save any of them to your own computer if you like...

oops the url for my photobucket is: http://s160.photobucket.com/albums/t171/alanocu/clipmarks/butterflies%20for%20michellezm/

Thank you ever so much, Alan. They are beautiful. So sweet of you to think of me. I've downloaded the lot and am using one as a wallpaper right now - too beautiful for words.

Weeeeeee...look what I found at youtube. Hope you can see it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dri8z1NzjH8&NR=1

Wow! Magnificent find, Dorine. I wish I could freeze-frame and copy them! I particularly love the little glass-winged butterflies. What a delight to watch. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

You're so welcome! There are more listed on that page. Enjoy!

Thank you michelle, alan, and dorine. Nothing in
this world can rival the splendor of nature.
Thanks for sharing your appreciation of the creations
we all love

Michelle, I think your butterfly clip is one of my favorite clips on the site. I really love the colors. Anyway, I just found a clip by coconutshell with photos of glasswing butterflies (if you haven't already seen it): http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/592ED1E0-73E4-43C3-9494-21A29094F549/

Also I had bookmarked this photo to send you a while ago - another glasswing, but the photo has been enlarged so you can see the detail: http://www.butterflies.co.za/glasswing_drinking_enlarged.htm

Absolutely fantastic links Alan. I had missed that clip of Coconut's so I'm so grateful for the link. It's such a delicate and exquisite little creature. I love the enlarged photo. Really chuffed to have seen these. Thank you so very much.

My daughter and I loved looking at these, Michelle. She loves the Blue Morpho.

Alan, that glasswing photo is amazing. They really do look like stained glass.

Michelle, how is your dad doing these days after the last hospital visit?

It was really nice that you posted a Happy Birthday clip for debbyski. She sent me an email a few weeks ago mentioning that she was taking a break from clipmarks. I had kind of sensed something was wrong, but I'm not sure what the exact reasons were.

Thank you, Alan, for enquiring about my dad. He's made a remarkably good recovery, was spoiled rotten by all, and is now full of cheek. (I'll have to beat him back into submission ) He is so dearly loved by his family and I think this went a long way in aiding his recovery.

Yes, I gleaned from her email that Deb was a little fatigued. However, she also intimated that as it's spring she will be spending more time outdoors and therefore have less time on the internet. She said she'd be back into the full swing of things by August.

She'd irrepressible and you can't keep a good Deb down for long and no doubt she'll burst back full of vim and vigour.

So nice to chat with you again, Alan. and a hug.