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Moths of the British Isles Series 1 (book cover)72

Moths, moth books and treacling for the insects

Since I was a little boy and discovered my first caterpillars, and found out how some types turn into moths that were like butterflies but different, I have been fascinated by the insects. It saddens me to...

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Monarch butterfly on flowers clip art84

Free Butterfly Pictures

These gorgeous free butterfly pictures can be used as clip art or can even be printed and framed to decorate your home.

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Death Head's Hawk Moth70

The Death's Head Hawk Moth is a very beautiful and unusual insect

The Death Head's Hawk Moth (Acherontia atropos) is a very large insect in the hawk moth family (Sphingidae) and is a very rare migrant visitor to the UK. It is also regarded as a bad omen because it has a...

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What Butterflies Eat

Have you ever wondered what butterflies eat? There are a few different reasons that you might have thought about this question. If it was a passing thought that you didn't bother to research, you ma be unable...

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Owl Butterfly78

Butterfly Pictures - - Photos Of Butterflies Royalty Free

Owl Butterfly Owl Butterfly Postman Butterfly Postman Butterfly Postman Butterfly Sapho Longwing Butterfly Zebra Longwing Butterfly These butterfly pictures were taken in the Hilbert Conservatory at the White...

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Monarch caterpillars eating Swan Plant pod75

Swan Plant is a food plant for Monarch caterpillars

The Monarch butterfly caterpillar can only eat plants in the Milkweed family (Asclepiadaceae) and one of these that grows quite large so provides plenty of food and is easily cultivated and very ornamental in...

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Male Morpho Butterfly90

A Perfect Butterfly

I haven't always made the right choices. A reminder of a few of mine came from a jewelry booth at the "Pike" in Long Beach, California back in the 1950s and 1960s. These I can chalk up to the lack of...

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Live Butterfly Garden!64

Buy Live Butterflies

 Witness one of nature's most spectacular transformations up close with this reusable, collapsible habitat. Fine, transparent mesh lets you see butterfly metamorphosis up close. Product includes easy-to-use...

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A Swallow-tail butterfly lays an egg and cements it in place with a leaf of sweet fennel.76

The Appetite of a Caterpillar

Sometimes you just don't truly appreciate something for what it is, and more importantly for what it will be in the future. You'd think we all would have learned that in kindergarten when someone read us,...

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Garden Tiger Moth. Photo by Marek Szczepanek77

Garden Tiger Moths were once common but not any more

When I was a boy, and indeed later in life, I used to enjoy finding caterpillars and discovering what species of moth or butterfly they would eventually produce. I remember as a child and as a teenager, the...

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