Gorgeous photos of butterflies from around the world
A butterfly (aglais urticae), seen on a blossom in a garden near Boetzingen, southern Germany, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009.
(AP Photo/ Winfried Rothermel)
This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows migrating monarch butterflies. How do Monarch butterflies find their way to Mexico every fall? Turns out they orient to light using their antennas. How do we know? Researchers painted butterfly antennas black and the insects got lost.
FILE - This undated file photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows the Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined the Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly does not warrant listing as an endangered species and protection of its habitat. The agency published its finding Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009 in the Federal Register. The butterfly exists only on about 2,000 acres in high-elevation meadows in the mountains near the Sacramento Mountain village of Cloudcroft, N.M.
(AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Julie McIntyre)
TO GO WITH EVOLUCIONISTA OLVIDADO - In this Tuesday, March 26, 2009 file photo, a butterfly is seen near coal mine in Simunjan, Sarawak, Malaysia. British naturalist Alfred Wallace wrote about tumbling into bogs and meeting barefoot natives in the riverside town of Simunjan.
(AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
An Eastern black Swallowtail butterfly takes his breakfast from a delicate flower near Archer, Fla., Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)
Two palamedes swallowtail butterflies fly among wildflowers, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009, in Telogia, Fla.
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