NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — What began as a childhood hobby more than six decades ago has led to what might be Africa’s largest butterfly collection in a suburb of Kenya’s capital. Steve Collins, 74, was ...

It will be a few months before butterflies flit through the air in Interior Alaska, but the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska Fairbanks was recently filled with them. The museum is ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...

MILLERSBURG – Encased in a series of cabinets, dozens of moth and butterfly displays sit in neatly arranged frames and mounts, waiting to be unearthed for its next showing. More than 18,000 of the ...

NAIROBI—Looking for a good home: 4.2 million butterflies. Steve Collins started collecting butterflies at age 5 on his family’s coffee farm on the flanks of Mount Elgon. He’s 74 now, and racing ...

From his home in Harrisville, all the way to Asia, Europe and beyond, George Andrushko collected butterflies for nearly half a century. “My sweetheart loved butterflies and he loved collecting them,” ...

BON SECOUR, Alabama — When the sun goes down in the piney woods, the hour approaches for Dirk Bayer to hunt. Deep in the night he rises, goes to a light behind his house, and sees what’s fluttering.

The blue morpho species is among the largest butterfly in the world A precious collection of rare butterflies - some more than a century old - is being opened up to visitors in a behind-the-scenes ...

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 ...

There are so many insects in the world it’s impossible to comprehend their actual numbers. There are just too many of them! Even if you could picture how many are out there you wouldn’t want to. Their ...

A precious collection of rare butterflies - some more than a century old - is being opened up to visitors in a behind-the-scenes look at a museum. Among the hundreds of featured species is the blue ...