Butterfly

Photographs and article by Peter Hemenway

Some species of butterflies need more salt in their diet which they will get from landing on people, attracted by the sweat.

On the street market in Chiang Mai dried butterflies are framed with cotton padding and sold. Butterfly farms are also a tourist attraction in many Asia cities now.

Chaing Mai NIght Market — Chaing Mai Night Market

The Butterfly is a popular symbol in Chinese embroidery. It is the symbol of summer and joy.

Monarchs can mate for as less as 1 hour and as long as 17 hours.

Ancient sacred drawings and carvings of butterflies were made in Egypt 3,500 years ago.

Besides using their antenna to smell for ectar , butterflies have enhanced color vision which helps enable the to also fng then the nectart in flowers

Vase with images of butterflys Doi Sacket, Thailand — Vase with images of butterflies in Doi Sacket, Thailand

China is rich in butterflies, and has dveloped buterflys into an art. The first butterfly pictures sprang up in the 1930s in China's Taiwan, and are still developing on the Chinese mainland.

A Chines circus uses a motif similar to the butterflies lower wing See the 3rd photograph in Circus

Newspaper Salesman in Ubud, Bali — Newspaper salesman in Ubud, Bali

Growing catapillars at a Butterfly Farm in Bali

Anonymous:

Imaginative cells marching…

“Biologists discovered that inside the cells of the tissues of a caterpillar there are cells called imaginative cells. These cells vibrate to a particular frequency. These cells are so different than the other cells in the body of the caterpillar that they trigger its immune system to try to destroy them.

More new imaginative cells continue to appear as the caterpillar ages and, all of a sudden, the immune system cannot destroy them fast enough. The imaginative cells become more numerous and get stronger by connecting to each other and form a critical mass, which recognizes its mission to create the unbelievable birth of a butterfly.

In 1969, Margaret Mead said: “We should never doubt that a small group of determined and motivated people can change the world.”

This looks like what is happening to us today. I strongly believe, along like many others, that there is an evolutive effervescence within the tissues of our current society. Despite the jarring spreading of fear, cupidity, rapacity, and violence expressed through the social fabric, there is a network of men and women that we can call imaginative cells, which reveals a different world, an evolution, a transformation, a metamorphosis.

The Poet Mario Benedetti wrote: “What would happen, if one day, upon awakening, we realize that we are now the majority?”

I would think that the new generation of imaginative people would then take control and would make a butterfly grow from a world of worms.

This is the time of awakening. Groups of imaginative cells gather everywhere and start to recognize each other. They network and develop tools of organization to develop the level of consciousness so that the next step of evolution in our humanity can take place and create a new society which will stop being a caterpillar and become a butterfly

A new dimension of life, a gentler and more compassionate society, a humanity rooted in happiness and mutual understanding….

Let’s be enthusiastic imaginative cells! Let’s network with each other, let’s gather, converge and congregate to build a new humanity, a humane humanity for a better future.”

Klotok Turtle Story

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