Winged art: When dead butterflies serve as artist’s tool
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Frander Arroyo, owner of Blue Morpho Butterfly House, Costa Rica has been collecting dead butterflies from his garden and mounting them as handicrafts. He glues a butterfly while making a painting here. (REUTERS)
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Frander Arroyo has been making handicrafts like earrings, necklaces, paintings and rings for export with prices ranging from $12 to $16 a piece. A Heliconius hecale butterfly from his garden. (REUTERS)
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Frander Arroyo puts silicone on a butterfly while making a painting. (REUTERS)
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A bowl of dead butterflies seen here before getting transformed into items of art. (REUTERS)
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Finger rings made with parts of butterflies. (REUTERS)
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Frander Arroyo selects and dissects butterflies before he creates handicrafts out of them. (REUTERS)
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Frander Arroyo takes dried butterflies out from an oven in the process of creating handicrafts. (REUTERS)
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