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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 ...

After your Mardi Gras balls this season, rather than let that dress collect dust in your closet, why not pass it on? That's where the Butterfly Effect Project comes into play. The group provides ...

An ambitious young man who hopes to write a comprehensive book on butterflies and moths of New England now has about 150 of his collection of 5,000 on exhibit at the Berkshire Museum for the month of ...

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 ...

The decline of butterfly collecting as a hobby is making conservation research more difficult for entomologists, according to an analysis of 1.4 million specimens held in US museum collections dating ...

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. “I’m 92 years old,” ...