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Butterfly collections are a common sight in museums, their brightly colored wings and unique patterns drawing the eyes of visitors. While these pinned specimens on display are stunning on their ...

We recently caught up with Claire Mellish, Curator of Fossil Arthropods, to have a look at a sensational butterfly specimen from the Museum's collection. The specimen in question is an exquisite ...

He uses it to pin his butterfly specimen to a large leaf about waist ... and disguises,” he wrote in Speak, Memory, “as a pretty boy in knickerbockers and sailor cap; as a lanky cosmopolitan ...

Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up among butterfly enthusiasts when a photographer discovered 35 specimens in Bahia Honda State Park, which then housed the only wild population of Miami blues — but ...

Pretty much the first two-thirds away from the ocean was all dunes. That was a perfect habitat for a butterfly ... from a leg of one of the specimens of silvery blues that we had in the collection.

CHICO — Chico biologist Sterling Mattoon is donating his extensive collection of 60,000 butterfly specimens to the University of Florida — after more than 70 years of collecting.