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An Injured Butterfly Got a Dried Flower for a Wing (and It Can Fly Again)

VICE·Ashley Fike·29 days ago
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Morhaf Ghazi found a butterfly with a broken wing on a hiking trail and, somehow, had exactly what he needed to fix it. The 30-year-old was hiking in Amman, Jordan, when he spotted a butterfly sitting too still on the trail. Butterflies don’t just hang around while humans approach. He got closer and saw the right wing was badly crumpled, leaving the insect completely unable to fly. Most people would see this, be super bummed out and helpless, then keep walking. Ghazi took it home in an empty food container. Videos by VICE For the next few days, he ran a one-man butterfly recovery operation. In a video shared by the New York Post via SWNS, we watch the whole thing unfold. “For a couple of days, I fed it sugar water,” Ghazi said. “It stayed on a flower bouquet where I placed tiny drops for it to drink.” Then he remembered something: a pink orchid he’d pressed inside a book nearly a decade ago, perfectly preserved since around 2016. “That’s when the idea came to me to make a replacement wing,” he said.…

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