Eu sei o que estou esperando de Santa este ano!
Bem, não é realmente. Na realidade eu não coleciona borboletas, e, especialmente, não esses birdwings gigantes. Eles são animais impressionantes, mas além de ser enorme, elas também são caros (os espécimes médios ir para cerca de uma centena de dólares). The newsworthy part of this story is how much it went for at auction. Before I tell you the price… this is a rare aberration of a rare butterfly (the forewing is almost a solid green blush, which is freakish). Mas…it’s still just a butterfly.
Drumroll please…
At auction in France, this butterfly just fetched a whopping 17,000 €! After taxes and fees, this specimen probably cost someone around $25,000 dollars. And the crazy thing is that this isn’t even the most that’s ever been paid for a butterfly. I can’t find records of any proof, but I wouldn’t be shocked if I heard of a specimen fetching more than $100,000. Good grief… time to start my Ornithoptera breeding program!
