dead butterflies at wedding...

[Sheri Moreau]

I know of one case when butterflies were ordered from a fairly local
supplier for release at their ourdoor wedding.  Come the time to release
them, not one of the butterflies was alive.  Not only was this a sad
occurrence for the wedding but environmentally it was a disaster also.
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Sorry, but I can't figure out why this was an environmental disaster. Why
did the butterflies die? Did the recipients leave them on the dashboard of
the car during the wedding service? (It's been known to happen...) Or did
the shipper fail to package them properly, so they expired of heat enroute?
Or were they actually diseased, and so happily in fact, died without
getting out into the environment? You don't say. Regardless, it didn't
affect the environment at all. Unhappy for the wedding party, and unhappy
for the bugs, but (and I'm sure to get slammed for this) we really do need
to stop anthropomorphizing certain arthropods. If they were dead
mosquitoes, would it be an environmental disaster?? Dead ticks?? Dead mealy
bugs???
 
Sheri
<sheri at butterflywings.com>