{"id":15357,"date":"2026-03-23T03:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/photos-wide-eyed-tourists-flock-to-the-butterfly-pavilion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T03:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:44:10","slug":"photos-wide-eyed-tourists-flock-to-the-butterfly-pavilion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/photos-wide-eyed-tourists-flock-to-the-butterfly-pavilion\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Wide-eyed tourists flock to the Butterfly Pavilion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nature lovers, rejoice! The Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion is back, featuring 30 butterfly and insect species as well as an assortment of California plants. The seasonal outdoor exhibition, which runs until August 23, allows visitors to see nature up close \u2013 we’re talking walking among hundreds of butterflies and carrying them on your arms or shoulders. A $10 add-on ticket is required in addition to the museum ticket to visit the pavilion. The tour lasts for half an hour.<\/p>\n

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Julia longwing resting on a leaf. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

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1.<\/strong> Visitors see other butterflies behind the owl butterfly in the foreground. <\/span> 2.<\/strong> A giant swallowtail pollinates a flower. <\/span> 3.<\/strong> Josephine Nicolet, left, 6, Nate Nicolet, 9, of Reno and Gavin Nicolet, left, look at insects flying around them at the exhibit. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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A blue morph shows off its camouflage by sitting on a visitor’s finger. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

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A blue morpho’s open wings show its brighter side. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

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Echo Park’s Steve Tong and Crystal Nguyen look at butterflies. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

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In addition to enjoying the flying stars show, visitors can learn about all the stages of the butterfly life cycle.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nature lovers, rejoice! The Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion is back, featuring 30 butterfly and insect species as well as an assortment of California plants. The seasonal outdoor exhibition, which runs until August 23, allows visitors to see nature up close \u2013 we’re talking walking among hundreds of butterflies and carrying them on your arms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[7469,3849,7470,1354,6670,7468],"class_list":{"0":"post-15357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-verse","8":"tag-butterfly","9":"tag-flock","10":"tag-pavilion","11":"tag-photos","12":"tag-tourists","13":"tag-wideeyed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15359,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions\/15359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}