If you don’t like closeups of insects, you probably should ignore me for the next six weeks or so. I volunteer tending the chrysalis cases at Butterflies in Bloom, an annual exhibit at Dow Gardens in Midland, Michigan.

Malachite chrysalises from today’s FedEx box, waiting to be pinned and hung in one of the two cases.

Scarlet Mormon, recently emerged and hanging from its chrysalis; three paper kites to the left

Lacewing