payless shoes & bflys

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>Subject: Re: payless shoes & bflys
>From: "Jenna Ogilvie" <LadyJenna6 at usa.net>
>Date: 4/19/99 2:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time
>Message-id: <01be8aac$f56b23c0$e21401cf at MYPC.TDSNET.COM>
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>
>I've had some monarchs that took about 2 hours to be ready to fly, but 3
>days?  That's ridiculous....I wonder how to get in touch with them to let
>them know they're wrong......
>
>Kathleen Moon <kmoon at ucla.edu> wrote in article
><3717ECFD.4F4AE5D at ucla.edu>...
>> Ted Ryznar wrote:
>> > 
>> > Just saw a commercial for Payless Shoes stating the average butterfly
>takes
>> > 3 days to expand his wings completely.  I have never seen it take 3
>days.
>> > has anyone else seen it take this long?
>> > 
>> > thanks for your time.
>> 
>> Three days?  Horse feathers!!  Thirty minutews, I could live with, but
>> three days is nothing short of absurdly laughable.  Even then, I think
>> it is probably never even that long.
>> 
Perhaps 3 days, I doubt it though, for a butterfly to reach full flying
strength but to expand its wings it takes less than an hour plus some time
after that to allow them to harden properly.

S.