Painted Lady on My Thumb!

The Butterfly Adventures exhibit at the Jackson County Fair was a great experience for me, and I could have stayed there for hours taking pictures! Alas, I was with my husband and eventually he dragged me out by my ear, but I got many wonderful pictures, including this one!

Have you ever held a butterfly? They feel very strange as they crawl around, and I didn't blame the young child in the exhibit for shrieking every time a butterfly landed on her! I'm 47 and I like insects a lot, but I still have to resist the urge to flail wildly if I feel a large insect crawling on me!

The Painted Lady butterfly is one of the most wide-spread species in the world, and can be found worldwide except on Antarctica and South America! Amazing! They are often raised in kindergarten and elementary classrooms to teach children about the life cycle of butterflies. In fact, if you are interested, there are many stores online that sell "butterfly kits" (and other types of insects and critters too!), and more searching will reveal that you can find many types of butterflies and moth caterpillars and adults for sale!