This was purchased by my great grandmother in the early 50s in Brazil, the flowers and butterfly are real and have managed to hang onto there color beautifully!
i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)
honestly special shoutout to people who are scared of bugs but trying to recognize their inherent value as living creatures
If you look at bugs and your thoughts are "oh my god you scare me so much but you didn't actually do anything wrong but please go away" and you go get someone else in ur life (like me lol) to pick them up and away for you, I am giving you a nice bowl of soup and a kiss