Framed Butterflies Art Set for Fathers Day Gifts

With Father's Day only one week away make sure you get Dad the perfect gift this year. The kind of thing that he can have in his office and show off stunning everyone that walks in. This week order this and get free shipping to anywhere in the U.S. This is a collection of 17 real framed butterflies, mounted in a classic double pane glass, wood display.

To order this piece, click on the image

Memorial Day Sale on Framed Butterflies

 

This year, Ben the Butterfly Guy will be holding a Memorial Day Sale on all framed butterflies and real mounted butterfly sets. 10% off on every order plus free shipping for select pieces. Don't forget Father's Day is not too far off, they also make great graduation gifts and gifts for this years butterfly themed weddings. Just type in the code: MEMDAYSALEBBG

Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions or requests: ben@benthebutterflyguy.com

Last Minute Graduation Gifts for Grads and Dorm Rooms

Thinking of what would make a great graduation gift for a grad in your life that needs to decorate their first dorm room. Why not get a gift that will last even after they've finished their college years to remember the unforgettable experiences and challenges they overcame. Butterflies symbolize a new chapter in your life as you come out of the efforts of the previous chapter, send this message to the class of 2011 grad in your life. With free Priority shipping you can send this gift anywhere in the U.S.

End of the Year Butterfly Gift for Teachers

So it's the end of the year and there's a special teacher you son or daughter wants to get a gift for a special teacher in mind. Look no further, with free shipping, make this beautiful orange and blue Callicore butterfly the perfect end of the year gift that will last through many more school years. Click on the image to order...

Graduation Day Gifts for Grads Dorm Rooms

So you need a graduation day gift for a special grad in your life that is heading off to his or her college dorm room for the first time. You have no idea what to get them to mark this life altering transition of theirs and want to make sure whatever it is you get them will last a very long time. Enough time for them to look upon this graduation back decades from now and remember their college years and what it meant to them. Look no further, real mounted butterflies  preserved and entomologically spread to last for decades. are the perfect gift Here are some great gifts with free shipping that your grad may very well appreciate.

Blue Darwin Butterfly in Blue Frame - ($27) A beautiful blue and aqua iridescent species from the Peruvian Amazon. Known as the Asterope lepriuri, this butterfly was nicknamed the Darwin butterfly as being constantly used as an exemplary note to the brilliance of Neotropical butterflies. (Free Shipping)

Blue Morpho Butterfly Silver Jewelry - ($36) Kevin from Bug Under Glass, along with some very professionally done butterfly and insect mounts, his jewelry work embodies the great colors on the wings of butterflies by placing them in great pieces you can wear around your neck.

Papilio Blumiei Butterfly - ($50) This beautiful green swallowtail from the Papilio family mounted in this fashion is the work of Katja from ABButterflies.com. I had a chance to see her work in person about a year ago and was really impressed with her work and knowledge on butterflies.

Butterfly Favors for the Wedding Season

My wife and I were doing some marketing homework in preparation for the wedding season when we came across this phenomenal online shop for wedding favors, littlethingsfavors.com. They offer tons of options for wedding memoirs for any themed wedding at afforadable prices. There's a million ways to get in contact with them and they have an awesome, very friendly web layout. What's even better is they have an area for butterfly themed wedding favors. Some of my favorites bring together two of the coolest things around, wine and butterflies with wine-stoppers, click on the image to check them out.

The Perfect Mother's Day gift ideas, framed butterflies for Mom

So you're stuck and can't think of the perfect gift for Mom this Mother's day. Look no further because with free shipping on framed butterflies, this collection known as the Amazon Wave will get the message across every day Mom walks by this art hanging in her home that you appreciate all she's done for you. This white finished, double-glass display has everything from blue Morphos, to glasswings, even a day flying moth that looks like an iridescent green swallowtail. If you have any questions please feel free to contact, otherwise click on the image to order before it's too late.

Blue Morpho Butterflies for Mom this Mother's Day

So you want to get Mom the best gift this year for Mother's Day, well look no further. 20% off our Mother's day selection plus free shipping. This particular Blue morpho butterfly is the Rhetenor cacica, that belongs to a special group of the Morphidae family.

The blue Morpho rhetenor helena is considered one of the most beautiful butterflies in the world. In my opinion, this is the king of the butterfly world. They are endemic to Peru, with greatest density around a village called Tingo Maria.

The name Helena comes from Helen of Troy, granted to this brilliant specimen by Staudinger in 1890. An appropriate name indeed.

7.25" x 6.5" Black frame with double pane glass front and back (see through). All frames are sealed.

Framed Butterflies with Free Shipping for Mother's Day

Here are a couple of framed butterfles I wanted to add to our Mother's Day Gift collection. Don't forget to get a great gift for Mom this year, and with free shipping there's no excuse. Click on the image to be taken to their page.

I also wanted to give a shout to We Sell Gods, an antique prints shop in San Francisco, California with some old school prints for Mom's and Teachers.

Real Framed Butterfly Heart Mother's Day Gift with Blue Morpho Butterflies

This framed butterfly heart has with two blue morpho butterflies surrounded by yellow, Phoebis argante butterflies mounted in black. A great Mother's Day gift for moms that love butterflies or a stunning addition to any butterfly collection. Free shipping this week. Click on the image to buy this piece.

The Real Red and Blue Agrias Amydon Butterfly

This is the intricately patterned Agrias amydon mounted and framed in a Black display. A great gift for a butterfly enthusiast to add to their collection. Also a great piece for home decorating.

The Agrias butterflies are some of the most fascinating butterflies in the whole world, let alone the Amazon. One of their greatest physical characteristics is their vibrant red bands on the front of the wings. Then, it’s almost like having two beautiful butterflies because the backside of the wings are phenomenally patterned. This is one of the most amazing creatures in Amazon, but you really have to be able to see both sides to fully appreciate how awesome this butterfly is.

The stunning butterfly can be found in Colombia, Bolivia and every country in between that runs along the Amazon Basin. All Agrias spend most of their times at the higher levels of the forest canopies. There are many different forms claimed to be true new forms to drive up the value. I do not doubt that this magnificent butterfly is not capable of having many forms, in fact, there have been several documented cases of hybrid Agrias with Preponas. There is even a taxon called the Prepona sarumani which is a Prepona praenestre and Agrias claudina hybrid, WHOA!

5.5" x 6.5" Black frame with double pane glass front and back (see through). All frames are sealed and all butterflies are entomologically spread, dried and mounted.

Other Agrias available...

 
Rare Bright Violet and Blue Agrais Sardanapalus Butterfly

Agrias sardanapalus Butterfly Framed in Blue

Blue Morpho Butterfly Collections, create your own set!

This is a simple chart of blue morpho butterflies from Ben the Butterfly Guy, to sell framed butterfly art displays in customizable sets where you can choose, mix and match and charge discounted prices for my clients. This is the first in several customizable charts that I will be debuting as the week progresses.

D SETS - 6.25” x 7.25”

A1 – $74 – M. RHETENOR HELENA
A2 – $44 – M. DIDIUS
A3 – $32 – C. MEMNON (OWL EYES)
A4 – $32 – C. MEMNON (OWL EYES)
A5 – $32 – M. DEIDAMIA (ACHILLES)
B1 – $64 – M. RHETENOR CACICA
B2 – $32 – M. DEIDAMIA (ACHILLES)
B3 – $64 – M. RHETENOR CACICA
B4 – $64 – M. RHETENOR CACICA
B5 – $44 – M. DIDIUS
C1 – $44 – M. THESEUS (WHITE MORPHO)
C2 – $44 – M. THESEUS (WHITE MORPHO)
C3 – $74 – M. RHETENOR HELENA
C4 – $44 – M. THESEUS (WHITE MORPHO)

So, I've decided to switch the style up a bit when it came to my methods of selling framed butterfly art. Since the beginning I've wanted to give people the option of mixing and matching their own butterfly sets and collections and have recently thought of a way that might work. More to come...

The Love story of Psyche and Cupid: Introduction and Cupid falls in love

Canova, Antonio. Cupid and Psyche contemplating a butterfly (1796-1800)

First let me begin by briefly mentioning what butterflies have to do with this amazing love story. Psyche is the Greek word for soul, as in the embodiment of the breath that gives us life, and that very breath leaving us when we die. Old Greeks and Romans saw the soul as a butterfly winged spirit that leaves us when we die.  Understanding this, Psyche was represented with butterfly wings, as an embodiment of what gives a life. This is a tale of an impossible love between God and mortal with a homicidal mother-in-law that comes up with impossible tasks for Psyche to prove her love. Tasks like separating the each grain by type in a huge room full large baskets of mixed grains, or fetch wool from killer golden sheep or travel to and from the underworld.

The Tale of Psyche and Eros (Cupid) was first heard in the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety, Metamorphoses by Lucias Apuleius. Written around 170AD, this tale was later renamed, The Golden Ass, by St. Augustine. This novel is one of the most important pieces of literature to date, marking an important milestone in the awakening of the human conscious and spirit. The Tale of Psyche and Love has been attributed to the waking and liberation of the feminine mind. The fact that this was written by such an educated and revered male figure of that time marked a new age to female self-awareness and responsibility to women, separating from attachment and accountability to man and God.

Lucius and Charite if I'm not mistaken

The actual Tale itself is a story inside a story where it is recited as an old wives tale being told by an elderly woman that belongs to a band of thieves. Beginning in Book 4 and continuing throughout all book 5, Lucius, after having accidently turned himself into a donkey, is stolen and housed with Charite, the wife to a wealthy man and the victim of a kidnapping-ransom scheme. In order to comfort Charite’s crying, the elderly women begins to tell them a most incredible story of love that defies the confines of mortality. This was the story she told Lucius and Charite…

Part 1:

There once was a Greek King and Queen blessed with three beautiful daughters. Of all three, the most beautiful by far was the youngest, Psyche, whose beauty was so great that it was worshipped and revered by man. Even Apollo attributed her beauty was too great for mortals, and the impoverished language of the humans could come up with no word to give justice to her beauty. This created a great jealousy in Venus, the Goddess the love and beauty was not about to take this sacrilegious slap in the face. With the help of her son Cupid, she set up a mischievous plot to curse Psyche so that despite her beauty, she would never marry a human suitor.

Cupid admiring Psyches beautiful before pricking himself with his own arrows

The plan was to dab some water from a bitter fountain in Venus garden, onto Psyche’s lips and then scratch her with one of Cupid’s arrows, this was the trick to the spell. Cupid turns himself invisible (as he often did to deal with humans) and climbs into Psyche’s room with his arrow and water ready. He puts the bitter water on her lips, but he was totally unprepared for what came next. She is startled and wakes up looking directly into Cupid’s eyes, despite being invisible, and this in turn startles Cupid so much that he accidentally pricks himself with his own arrow. He falls madly in love with her and leaves her there, sickly longing for her but sticking to Venus plan.

The curse that fell upon Psyche was brought to an oracle of Apollo to foresee anything positive but were met with the same . The oracle told them that the only suitor that would take her is a horrible beast, detestable by God and mortal both. They were to carry out the wedding procession to a cliff where the King and Queen and all the procession was to leave her there alone so this horrible monster would take her as his wife. Knowing this, Cupid talks to Zephyr, the caretaker of the winds and asks him he could carry Psyche to his home in a valley made for the Gods.

The solemn procession of Psyche's marriage

As planned, Psyche was left on the mountainside by herself and just as she is about to jump off the cliff, Zephyr whisks her away in the wind to a beautiful home waiting for her in the valley. Her new home was a beautiful mansion with golden pillars that held up the high domed ceilings, rooms dedicated to natural beauty and gardens only a God could fully appreciate. Psyche was met by a fascinating yet still calm voice that whispered to her that everything there is for hers. As if that wasn’t enough, they also tell her that her secret husband come home that evening and consummate their marriage. Talk about intense, and that is where I will end Part 1 of one of the greatest stories ever told.

In part 2, I’ll tell the obvious, what happened that night, their painful separation and the impossible tasks Psyche has to complete if she ever hopes to be with the love of her life.

Free Blue Butterfly Frame Giveaway of the Week from Ben the Butterfly Guy

This week, we decided to give away this beautiful blue butterfly from the Amazon rainforest, framed in black, double pane glass, wood frame. The question of the week is a two part question:

What is the current name of this butterfly?

What are the two "tails" on the bottom of their wings?

To answer go to the Ben the Butterfly Guy Facebook Wall Tab

Amazon Wave: Blue Morpho Framed Butterfly Art with Colorful Butterflies

This fantastic piece of butterfly art comes with 2 Blue morphos and 30 framed butterflies of the Amazon rainforest. Some of the amazing butterflies to note in this collection are the blue morphos, didius and godarti. This piece also has the pink glasswing butterfly Cithaerias pireta.

This makes a great gift for that special someone in your life, or a great decoration for any room.

Here is a full list of all the colorful framed butterflies in this piece:

Left side - M. didius, Agrias Claudina lugens, Napeocles jucunda, Smyrna blomfildia, Parides sesostris, Phoebis philea, Siproeta epaphus, Siproeta stelenes, Haetera piera, Marpesia marcella, Eunica alcmena flora, Heliconius erato, Myscelia capenas, Eunica eurota, Tigridia acesta, Rhetus periander

Right side - Eurytides agesilaus, Papilio thoas, Anaea, Urania leilus, Papilio torquatus, Asterope Sp., Callicore pastazza, Phoebis trite, Anaea xenocles, Cithaerias pireta, Heliconius burneyi, Callicore cyllene, Itho Sp., Callicore pastazza, Diaethria eluina, M. godarti

This is in a 19" x 30" double pane glass, white, wood frame

ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.

*All frames are hand crafted and the quality and characteristics are much better then the common, one-sided Riker Mounts. One of the great benefits of double pane glass framing is that you can see the front and back sides of the mounted butterflies. In most cases involving Neotropical butterflies the front and back sides of the wings are distinctly different. The back many times displays a species distinct form of self defense.*

Every butterfly from Ben the Butterfly Guy comes from butterfly farms throughout the Eastern region of Peru. All butterflies here are classified non-endangered by the international CITES listings as reviewed by both the Ministry of Agriculture from Peru and U.S. Fish and Wildlife in the States. Copies of documentation and clearance are available upon request for your assurance and peace of mind.

Butterfly Frame Giveaway Question of the Week: What is your favorite butterfly?

The Butterfly Frame Giveaway question of the week is: What is your favorite butterfly? You can answer us by leaving us a comment on our Facebook page. Post up a picture, a description, anything and next Monday we will pick a winner to send a beautiful Napeocles jucunda butterfly to. I figured the jucunda was only appropriate since it is my personal favorite butterfly. Why? Go to my Facebook page to find out. To get there you can either click on the picture or look along the right hand side of my blog for the the Ben the Butterfly Guy Facebook window.

Then on my page, click on the wall tab up towards the top to be able to tell us, what is your favorite butterfly.

Napeocles jucunda black and blue butterfly