Yingtai, the daughter of a rich provincial lord disguises herself as a boy to get into higher education. She meets and falls in love with Shangbo, a talented and hard-working, but poor scholar. But Yingtai’s parents order her home to marry a rich man. It is then that she confesses to Shangbo her love for him. While the girl awaits her forced marriage Shangbo dies in the misery of his love for her. On the way to her wedding ceremony, Yingtai stops the carriage to pay tribute to Shangbo at his tomb. But, as she kneels, the tomb opens and she goes inside. The girl disappears, and onlookers only see two butterflies flying out of the door. It was said that this showed how Shangbo and Yingtai were now together at last, and were free from the bounds of tradition.

Unleash your child’s imagination and learning with an original gift of magic in a jar from My Butterfly.

We came up with this great idea for Christmas. Make your own tree. If you do not want to get a real tree and thus save one from being cut, but you also don’t like the plastic trees, we have an amazing idea for you! Make your own Christmas tree with butterfly jars! You can put one up by aligning a few jars on top of each other, forming a pyramid. You can put that small tree on your table or anywhere you want. We know that you keep your Christmas decorations, so you can get creative now. Get some of your old garlands, the shiny ornaments and cover the structure with them. You can even arrange some Christmas lights on that improvised tree. If you want you can leave one of the jars on the side and tap it from time to time to the amusement of your guests. A beautiful butterfly flapping its wings on a Christmas tree! If you have guests over or you are celebrating with your family, you can put that tree apart at the end of your Christmas dinner and give the jars with butterflies as presents.

You can get creative this year – put up your own Christmas tree and then give My Butterfly as a Christmas present!

The biggest drop in the butterfly count came from the Common Blue Butterfly. This butterfly suffered due to the coldest summer in two decades and its numbers dropped by almost 2/3rds. The overall butterfly drop was 11% from last year while the Common Blue butterfly dropped by 61%. This drop was expected due to the cool summer that had a lot of rain and the hot and dry spring. This is because these butterflies cannot find mates and lay eggs as they cannot fly or eat in the cold or rain.

On a lighter note, the garden favourite Red Admiral butterfly actually doubled its numbers with a 98% increase. Also, after recent declines, the small tortoiseshells numbers actually stabilized this year.

In general, the overall results were promising, even with the drop. Many people took part in the butterfly count and were able to help butterfly experts to understand the effects of weather on butterfly numbers. My Butterfly offers four beautiful butterfly options that you can take home today, simply visit our web site and choose the butterfly that best fits your taste. And don’t forget to take part in the butterfly count next year!

You can either purchase it for yourself, or perhaps as a gift for a dear friend. Either way, it’s a fun way to mark this change in seasons. Place it as a decoration in your home to welcome guests as it flutters its wings when they come into your home, or perhaps on your work desk to warm your day. It’s a great stress reliever as it brings happy memories of summer and vacationing on the beach and will help you get through the tiring workdays.

My butterfly is available in four beautiful options and you can choose to have it in a glass or plastic jar. Which makes it ideal if you have small children in the home. Enjoy!

We from My Butterfly have an idea – if you plan to give your child a butterfly to raise and then release, why not give him later on one of ours, so your child will have it forever!

The following is written by Brandon:

“In these paragraphs, I will tell you about the species of electronical butterflies you are selling.

The Monarch is one of the two North American milkweed butterflies, along with the Queen as well. A Monarch’s wingspan is three to four inches. The caterpillars eat many milkweeds and milkweed vine. Those caterpillars may look like lemon, liquorice, and peppermint to you, but to birds they are colors of DANGER. These bright colors warn off predators such as birds away, and so does the orange and black on the adult Monarch act as a warning. The adults are found almost anywhere with milkweed, but they drink nectar of many other flowers, too. Groups of Monarch butterflies also called “wanderers” have “built in clocks” to help them know it’s migration time. They can fly at up to seventy miles per hour! They rang as north as the Great Lakes down to the very bottom of Argentina. Sightings of monarchs are also reported in the Indo-Australian region (South east Asia, Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands).

Tiger swallowtails have those tails to fool birds into thinking they are the antennae, and attack the tails instead. Those tails don’t grow back, but a lost tail is better than a lost head! Although they are sluggish fliers. The wingspan of a Tiger swallowtail is three to five and a half inches. They slurp nectar of many flowers and shrubs, but males need sodium from

water to smell nice for female tiger swallowtails. This is known as “mud puddling”. The caterpillars eat the foliage of mostly willows, poplars, cottonwoods, and wild cherries. They are stout, and have eyespots to frighten birds. If it’s scary eyespots don’t frighten the predator, wham! An orange “Y” shaped organ called osmateria gives off an odor that smells like rotton cheese (Gross!).

The Blue morpho is pretty and strange at the same time! They have a wingspan of four to six inches. Blue morphos prefer rotten fruit, rotten meat, bird poop, and even ketchup over flower nectar! They have a metallic blue upper-side, and a brown underside for camouflage. They can be very pretty as they glide through the dense, steamy forests of Central and South America. There are very many, many species of Blue morpho, but just calling them “Blue morphos” is enough.

Pink morphas do not exist because they are a fantasy inspired species. These fantasies can be popular, and most are pink or purple. You could make up one of your own, too!”

If you have enjoyed Brandon’s blog post as much as we have then please feel free to comment and hopefully if we ask nicely enough he will write another.

Thank You Brandon!

Give a Butterfly in a Jar – it’s a great way to say “I’m sorry”.