![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/06t.jpg) Sitting butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/09t.jpg) Speckled butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/21t.jpg) Butterfly head in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/13t.jpg) Black and red butterfly on a leaf in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/23t.jpg) Close-up of a black and red butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/19t.jpg) Black and red striped butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/01t.jpg) Flying Dutchman butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/16t.jpg) Black and orange butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/26t.jpg) Red Peacock Butterfly (Anartia amathea) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/20t.jpg) Close-up of Dryadula Phaetusa(?) butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/03t.jpg) Close-up of a feeding Owl Butterfly (Caligo) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/25t.jpg) Black butterfly with white stripes in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/10t.jpg) Orange butterfly Dryadula Phaetusa(?) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/05t.jpg) Butterfly on a flower of tropical milkweed in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/08t.jpg) Butterfly on pink Pentas lanceolata flowers in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/17t.jpg) Close-up of Red Peacock Butterfly (Anartia amathea) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/22t.jpg) Owl Butterfly (Caligo) feeding on a rotten star fruit in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/02t.jpg) Butterfly on Pentas lanceolata (Penta starla) flowers in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/07t.jpg) Owl Butterfly (Caligo) with dramatic eyespots on the underside of the lower wing in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/04t.jpg) Blue Wave Butterfly (Myscelia cyaniris) with bands of iridescent blue across the upper wing surface in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/12t.jpg) Caterpillar on a leaf in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/14t.jpg) Emerald Swallowtail (Papilio Palinurus) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/15t.jpg) Close-up of Emerald Swallowtail (Papilio Palinurus) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/908/jpeg/22t.jpg) Small butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, January 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/908/jpeg/23t.jpg) Black and red striped butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, January 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/24t.jpg) Blue flower of Lignum Vitae (Gaiac tree, Guaiacum sanctum) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/908/jpeg/19t.jpg) Honey bees in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, January 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/908/jpeg/20t.jpg) Green frog in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, January 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/908/jpeg/21t.jpg) Sitting green frog in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, January 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/908/jpeg/17t.jpg) Pink spotted swallowtail(?) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, January 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/908/jpeg/18t.jpg) Fish on a wall of fish tank in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, January 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/908/jpeg/24t.jpg) Orange moth on display in Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, January 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/11t.jpg) Butterfly Iris (Dietes iridioides) in Japanese garden in Hermann Park. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/01t.jpg) Central part of white Butterfly Iris (African iris, Dietes) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/785/jpeg/12t.jpg) Butterfly pea in Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richardson, August 9, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/789/jpeg/24t.jpg) Skipper butterfly on a purple coneflower in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 5, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/746/jpeg/25t.jpg) Reakirt s Blue (Echinargus isola) butterfly on Antelope horns milkweed (Asclepias asperula) on Savanna Meadow Trail in Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. Austin, Texas, May 10, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/796/jpeg/14t.jpg) Coleus with a Long tailed skipper butterfly in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, October 3, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2992/jpeg/14t.jpg) Pupa, or chrysalis stage of monarch butterfly in Butterfly Garden at Andy Anderson Arboretum in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1157/jpeg/15t.jpg) Orange butterfly Colias romanovi (Grum-Grshimailo, 1885) in Zoological Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 15, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/796/jpeg/21t.jpg) Long tailed skipper butterfly (Urbanus proteus) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, October 3, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/796/jpeg/17t.jpg) Gulf Fritillary butterfly on Pentas lanceolata flowers in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, October 3, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3000/jpeg/01t.jpg) Caterpillar of black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) on parsley in Butterfly Garden at Andy Anderson Arboretum in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 5, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/730/jpeg/18t.jpg) Texan crescent butterfly (Anthanassa texana) on orange daisy in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 5, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/796/jpeg/19t.jpg) Gulf Fritillary butterfly on coleus and Penta starla flowers in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, October 3, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/796/jpeg/22t.jpg) Long tailed skipper butterfly (Urbanus proteus) on coleus in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, October 3, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3000/jpeg/02t.jpg) Caterpillar of black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) on a stalk of parsley in Butterfly Garden at Andy Anderson Arboretum in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 5, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/796/jpeg/18t.jpg) Gulf Fritillary butterfly on Pentas lanceolata (Penta starla) flowers in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, October 3, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3000/jpeg/03t.jpg) Young caterpillar of black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) on a stalk of parsley in Butterfly Garden at Andy Anderson Arboretum in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 5, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/726/jpeg/07t.jpg) Center part of a white Butterfly Iris (African iris, Dietes) flower in TAMU Horticultural Gardens in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, March 26, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/617/jpeg/01t.jpg) Historic Mission Control Center in NASA Space Center Museum. Houston, Texas, February 16, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/617/jpeg/03t.jpg) Current Mission Control Center in NASA Space Center Museum. Houston, Texas, February 16, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/794/jpeg/20t.jpg) Green lynx spider preying on a skipper butterfly on Purple dewdrop (Lobelia puberula) in Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, September 26, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/617/jpeg/04t.jpg) Apparatus in current Mission Control Center in NASA Space Center Museum. Houston, Texas, February 16, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/617/jpeg/02t.jpg) Mysterious buttons in Historic Mission Control Center in NASA Space Center Museum. Houston, Texas, February 16, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/617/jpeg/05t.jpg) Visitor s walk in current Mission Control Center in NASA Space Center Museum. Houston, Texas, February 16, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/794/jpeg/19t.jpg) Close up of a green lynx spider preying on a skipper butterfly on Purple dewdrop (Lobelia puberula) in Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, September 26, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/800/jpeg/09t.jpg) Red-banded Hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops) butterfly on white mistflower (Havana snakeroot, Ageratina havanensis, Eupatorium havanense) on Caney Creek Trail in Sam Houston National Forest, near Huntsville. Texas, October 18, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/800/jpeg/08t.jpg) Little wood satyr butterfly, Hermeuptychia (Euptychia) hermes, on white mistflower (Havana snakeroot, Ageratina havanensis, Eupatorium havanense) on Caney Creek Trail in Sam Houston National Forest, near Huntsville. Texas, October 18, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/794/jpeg/21t.jpg) Green lynx spider preying on a skipper butterfly on Purple dewdrop (downy lobelia, Lobelia puberula) in Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, September 26, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/876/jpeg/16t.jpg) Sculpture of two women with a fat butterfly in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/805/jpeg/22t.jpg) Monarch butterfly in Antique Rose Emporium. Independence, Texas, November 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/805/jpeg/23t.jpg) Skipper butterfly in Antique Rose Emporium. Independence, Texas, November 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/804/jpeg/04t.jpg) Checkered skipper(?) butterfly in dew in Lemontree Park. College Station, Texas, November 6, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/805/jpeg/26t.jpg) Butterfly on white mistflower in Antique Rose Emporium. Independence, Texas, November 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1672/jpeg/05t.jpg) Blue Pansy (Junonia orithya) butterfly on a field on Green Circles (center-pivot irrigation) in Irkhaya (Irkaya) Farms. Qatar, October 9, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1574/jpeg/26t.jpg) Blue Pansy (Junonia orithya) butterfly on a field on Green Circles (center-pivot irrigation) in Irkhaya (Irkaya) Farms. Qatar, April 10, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/617/jpeg/12t.jpg) Kids Place in NASA Space Center Museum. Houston, Texas, February 16, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/617/jpeg/11t.jpg) Junk rocket in NASA Space Center Museum. Houston, Texas, February 16, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/805/jpeg/24t.jpg) Tagged monarch butterfly on white mistflower in Antique Rose Emporium. Independence, Texas, November 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/798/jpeg/04t.jpg) Close up of gulf fritillary butterfly on a dam on Chinquapin Trail in Huntsville State Park. Texas, October 10, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/718/jpeg/08t.jpg) Pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor) butterfly in Antique Rose Emporium. Independence, Texas, March 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/805/jpeg/16t.jpg) Monarch butterfly on yellow lantana flowers in Antique Rose Emporium. Independence, Texas, November 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/617/jpeg/08t.jpg) Guts of Saturn Rocket in NASA Space Center Museum. Houston, Texas, February 16, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/617/jpeg/09t.jpg) Wires of Saturn Rocket in NASA Space Center Museum. Houston, Texas, February 16, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/617/jpeg/06t.jpg) Engine of Saturn rocket in NASA Space Center Museum. Houston, Texas, February 16, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2756/jpeg/25t.jpg) Butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 21, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3001/jpeg/23t.jpg) Butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 7, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2743/jpeg/31t.jpg) Butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 28, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2738/jpeg/01t.jpg) Butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 12, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2994/jpeg/01t.jpg) Butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 29, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/805/jpeg/21t.jpg) Tagged monarch butterfly on yellow lantana flowers in Antique Rose Emporium. Independence, Texas, November 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/798/jpeg/03t.jpg) Gulf fritillary butterfly on woolly croton on a dam on Chinquapin Trail in Huntsville State Park. Texas, October 10, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/617/jpeg/10t.jpg) Tubes and wires of Saturn Rocket in NASA Space Center Museum. Houston, Texas, February 16, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2994/jpeg/02t.jpg) Blooming butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 29, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3001/jpeg/26t.jpg) Flower of butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 7, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2738/jpeg/27t.jpg) Back lit butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 12, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2994/jpeg/05t.jpg) Blooming butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 29, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2738/jpeg/02t.jpg) Close-up of butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 12, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2738/jpeg/25t.jpg) Blooming butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 12, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1062/jpeg/09t.jpg) Butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) in Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, May 26, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/805/jpeg/20t.jpg) A tag on mitten shaped cell on underside of hindwing of monarch butterfly in Antique Rose Emporium. Independence, Texas, November 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/801/jpeg/14t.jpg) Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia) butterfly on orange daisies in Antique Rose Emporium. Independence, Texas, October 24, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1574/jpeg/22t.jpg) Blue Pansy (Junonia orithya) butterfly on flowers of Reichardia intermedia on a field on Green Circles (center-pivot irrigation) in Irkhaya (Irkaya) Farms. Qatar, April 10, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/776/jpeg/20t.jpg) Large Skipper butterfly (Ochlodes sylvanus) east from Toksovo, 10 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, July 9, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2543/jpeg/21t.jpg) Butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, June 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/659/jpeg/13t.jpg) Butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, July 20, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2994/jpeg/21t.jpg) Back lit flower of butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 29, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2968/jpeg/05t.jpg) Butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, June 22, 2021
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