At home in the muggy surroundings of a New York City museum, an iridescent blue butterfly swoops and flutters with jaunty familiarity. The Costa Rican Morpho is so comfortable, in fact, that its ...

A blue clipper butterfly from Asia rested on flowers inside the conservatory at the Powell Gardens Festival of Butterflies. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star Inside Look is a Star series that ...

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. — There is a very special place right in our South Florida backyard that you may forget about due to your day to day work and school flow, but with summer around the corner, you ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — More than 60 butterfly and moth species from around the world will fly within the Lena Meijer Tropical Conservatory for its new exhibit. On Wednesday, the 'Fred & Dorothy Fichter ...

Two yellow-winged ethilla butterflies act out a courtship ritual involving intricate aerial maneuvers, headlong chases and delicate caresses. Although native to Trinidad, the pair are among the more ...

The Fort Worth Botanic Garden, the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT ®), the Fort Worth Garden Club and the Fort Worth Botanical Society announce the opening of “Butterflies in the Garden, ...

Chris Johnson, a volunteer at the Butterflies! exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, had seen his share of exotic butterflies. But this one stood out. "It ...

Bug thieves. They exist, apparently, and cops in Cincinnati say there's one on the loose in the Buckeye State. The Cincinnati Police Department says a woman absconded with a blue morpho butterfly from ...

She was seeking shade from the hot sun at Brazos Bend State Park where she works as a volunteer. She headed for the canopy of trees at the beginning of the Creekfield Nature Trail. "I stopped at the ...

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