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 ...

Among the vivid green plants of a tropical hothouse, flashes of blues, purples, oranges and other bright colors flit in and out of the light. Distinctively patterned orange and black monarch ...

Want to see a flurry of tropical butterflies in the Ozarks? Head to The Butterfly Palace in Branson. And here’s a tip to attract the insects to you: wear red. I recently visited the Branson attraction ...

In the lab at this urban bug oasis, exotic cockroaches hiss and tarantulas feed. Out back in the fly house, butterflies soar. Stepping into Shelby Park’s Idlewild Butterfly Farm and Insectarium at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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