Loren does say that there is a risk with yellows/oranges and murrini crrrracking...but it doesn't happen all the time. It's a gamble. Typically it happens, he said, if I am remembering correctly, once you have at least a full wing section all together and when you go to take it out of the kiln after annealing it has cracked apart.
Your wings with the clear where the body needs to go you can try fixing...just punty up to preheated piece and superheat just the clear where you need to put half a body...use needle nose pliers to grab clear at one end of cane/murrini and peel the clear off. Put your black in for head/body/tail and then cut to match two pieces together to make your full butterfly, fill in areas with clear to round out and pull. You could if you wanted try to squish your upper wing shape into a bit more of a triangle point at the top still, just takes heating that area to the core well.
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