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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

I found it this way: Leaf nest design

This is the third design I did for my "I found it this way" Floral art demonstration at the Capilano Flower Arranging Club .

As the temperature starts to cool down here in Vancouver and we are heading into early autumn, we are all starting to spend more time indoors, we looked at nests crafted outdoors.

During the summer months the Emperor butterfly enjoys the fruits from the tree...

... and in late fall caterpillars make nests by "sewing" the leaves together and to the tree

The caterpillars move into the nest over weeks

As the leaves drop from the tree, only the nests stay behind

Over winter the nests deteriorate...

... come Spring they crawl from the nest, ready to eat the new fruit and grow

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