Winged art: When dead butterflies serve as artist’s tool

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, 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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Seen here is a painting made using butterflies. (REUTERS)