This artist is setting a new expectation for the phrase “save the butterflies”.
Romy McCloskey is a costume designer who put her needleworking abilities to the test when she rescued a 3-day-old monarch butterfly from certain death by fixing its shredded wing.
McCloskey, who is the proud mother to a garden full of monarchs, first found the baby bug in her backyard last week.
While monarch butterflies usually have a lifespan of 2 to 6 weeks, this newborn insect had suffered a deformity while it was pupating in the chrysalis.WATCH: Hummingbird Refuses to Leave the Dog Who Saved Her Life
Upon determining that the mutation wasn’t due to a parasite, McCloskey took the injured baby into her “operating room” and grabbed her surgical supplies: a towel, a coat hanger, contact cement, a toothpick, tweezers, a cotton swab, scissors, talc powder, and an extra butterfly wing from one of her other recently deceased backyard bugs.
The designer used the coat hanger to secure the body of the butterfly against the towel so it would not struggle…
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