![](../../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/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/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/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/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/09t.jpg) Speckled butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../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/2009/711/jpeg/21t.jpg) Butterfly head in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/01t.jpg) Flying Dutchman butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/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/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/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/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/2009/711/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/2009/712/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/18t.jpg) Rice Paper Butterfly (Idea leuconoe) 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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/2009/712/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/2023/3366/jpeg/26t.jpg) Black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3367/jpeg/02t.jpg) Head of black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3367/jpeg/01t.jpg) Close-up of a tail section of black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2023
![](../../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/2009/709/jpeg/20t.jpg) Black funeral coach in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../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/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/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/2009/709/jpeg/25t.jpg) Black Campbell funeral coach in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../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/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/03t.jpg) Current Mission Control Center in NASA Space Center Museum. Houston, Texas, February 16, 2008
![](../../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/2009/817/jpeg/09t.jpg) Striped snake sleeping in Houston Zoo. Houston, Texas, December 23, 2009
![](../../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/2010/859/jpeg/02t.jpg) Black swallowtail butterfly in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 13, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1448/jpeg/16t.jpg) Orange and black butterfly in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 1, 2014
![](../../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/2014/1448/jpeg/17t.jpg) Close up of orange and black butterfly in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 1, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/857/jpeg/08t.jpg) Inactive black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) in dew in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 4, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/857/jpeg/09t.jpg) Caterpillar of black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) in dew in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 4, 2010
![](../../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/2022/3134/jpeg/06t.jpg) Caterpillar of black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 18, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/586/jpeg/20t.jpg) A butterfly on black eyed susan flower near Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 27, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/06t.jpg) Black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi) east from Kuzmolovo, 7 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/968/jpeg/15t.jpg) Black and orange speckled butterfly Fritillary (Boloria) east from Kuzmolovo, 7 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/873/jpeg/06t.jpg) Black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi) near Zapliusye in Pskov Region south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 27, 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/2010/866/jpeg/17t.jpg) Black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) on Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 4, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/866/jpeg/12t.jpg) Black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) on Post Oak Trail at morning in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 4, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1424/jpeg/04t.jpg) Black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi, Russian name Boyaryshnitsa) east from Kuzmolovo, north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 8, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/17t.jpg) Black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi) on a flower of scabious in Posiolok, 45 miles south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 23, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/955/jpeg/25t.jpg) Caterpillar on a twig of mountain ash (Black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi)(?)) in Menkovo, south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 1, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/805/jpeg/26t.jpg) Butterfly on white mistflower 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/2011/969/jpeg/19t.jpg) Black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi) sitting on a flower of scabious in Posiolok, 45 miles south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 23, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1424/jpeg/06t.jpg) Close up of black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi, Russian name Boyaryshnitsa) east from Kuzmolovo, north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 8, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1424/jpeg/05t.jpg) Sitting black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi, Russian name Boyaryshnitsa) east from Kuzmolovo, north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 8, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/955/jpeg/26t.jpg) Back lit caterpillar of black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi) on a twig of mountain ash in Menkovo, south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 1, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/09t.jpg) Black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi) on a pink flower east from Kuzmolovo, 7 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/873/jpeg/09t.jpg) Black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi) on pink clover near Zapliusye in Pskov Region south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 27, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/866/jpeg/19t.jpg) Ventral surface of Black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) on Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 4, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/866/jpeg/01t.jpg) Tail part of black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) in Lake Bryan Park. Bryan, Texas, June 2, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/863/jpeg/08t.jpg) Caterpillar of black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, May 23, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/864/jpeg/22t.jpg) Caterpillar of black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, May 29, 2010
![](../../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/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/2014/1424/jpeg/20t.jpg) Black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi, Russian name Boyaryshnitsa) on Ragged Robin east from Kuzmolovo, north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 8, 2014
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