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    This artist is setting a new expectation for the phrase “save the butterflies”.

    This artist is setting a new expectation for the phrase “save the butterflies”.Romy McCloskey is a costume designer who put her needleworking abilities to the test when she rescued a 3-day-old monarch butterfly from certain death by fixing its shredded wing.

    McCloskey, who is the proud mother to a garden full of monarchs, first found the baby bug in her backyard last week. While monarch butterflies usually have a lifespan of 2 to 6 weeks, this newborn insect had suffered a deformity while it was pupating in the chrysalis.

    Upon determining that the mutation wasn’t due to a parasite, McCloskey took the injured baby into her “operating room” and grabbed her surgical supplies: a towel, a coat hanger, contact cement, a toothpick, tweezers, a cotton swab, scissors, talc powder, and an extra butterfly wing from one of her other recently deceased backyard bugs.


    The designer used the coat hanger to secure the body of the butterfly against the towel so it would not struggle while she was attaching the wing. She then cut away the ragged part of its wing to make way for the replacement – and if you’re worried about the butterfly at this point, McCloskey assures her reader that cutting butterfly wings is the equivalent of trimming hair or fingernails.

    butterfly before.jpgShe then attached the extra butterfly wing to her young patient so that it was virtually good as new.

    butterfly after.jpgMcCloskey posted photos of the healthy butterfly to Facebook with the caption reading: “You can see that the black lines on his upper right wing don’t match up 100%, and if you look at his lower right wing, [it] is missing the black dot that indicates male gender. Oh, and the white on his wing is the talc used to make sure any stray glue doesn’t make the wings stick together.”
    Just to make sure that her patient had made a healthy recovery, she let it rest for a day before giving it some homemade nectar and taking it into the backyard for a little joy ride on its new wing – and judging by the butterfly’s exuberant first flight, the surgery was a huge success.

    “A quick spin around the backyard, then a little rest on one of the bushes… then… like the down of a thistle… off he flew! My heart soared with him, for sure!” said McCloskey.

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    Interfering with the survival of the fittest doesn't serve the butterfly over the long term.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Interfering with the survival of the fittest doesn't serve the butterfly over the long term.
    As long as it's done on a small scale, its affect will be negligible.
    Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
    --John Adams

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    As long as it's done on a small scale, its affect will be negligible.
    I was being sarcastic. I assume the butterfly birth defect wasn't genetic.

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    One time while in the process of taking down a spiderweb, the discovery was made of how animals would react to the saving of a single moth caught inside a web. When the moth was released from its web, it flew away. Almost simultaneously a bird landed, while the next day a beautiful brown spider appeared on a back window with a cross on its back, and it was asked to spin silk, and so it turned and spun silk.

    One time a single hummingbird came as an emissary of introductions, as there were many more hummingbirds who followed the one, as they were waiting by. So, when they saw a positive interaction, they flew together to a single tree to feed from. They were first asking for permission. It was a sweet moment right then, to find out more about how animals interact, to what redwood helped create the elk.
    Plant farms and animal sanctuaries with just compensation: Genesis 1:29-30, 2-3, Lev. 24:18-22, Psalm 50, Isaiah 1, 11:6-9, 65, 66, Daniel 1, Hosea 2:18, Revelation 20-22.

    Creation of horses: Zechariah 6:1-8, 14:20. Wild Horses, burros persecuted, parted out in violation of Public Law 92-195:
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