Butterflies Gallery

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A butterfly is pictured during a special preview of "The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter" for 4-5-year-old-children at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on October 28, 2014. The Butterfly Conservatory houses up to 500 iridescent butterflies that hover above visitors in a 1, 200-square-foot vivarium filled with lush foliage and blooming tropical flowers. An annual favorite, The Butterfly Conservatory is eagerly anticipated by children and adults alike. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad / AFP PHOTO / JEWEL SAMAD

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(FILES) Picture of two monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) copulating taken on March 18, 2008 in the Oyamel forest at El Rosario sanctuary in Angangueo, state of Michoacan, Mexico. Unesco has declared on July 7, 2008 as World Heritage 56, 000 hectares of the state of Michoacan, western Mexico, where every year from October to March 20 million of Monarch butterflies set their home to breed after travelling more than 4, 500 kilometres from the United States and Canada. AFP PHOTO/Luis ACOSTA / AFP PHOTO / AFP FILES / LUIS ACOSTA

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Picture of naturalised butterflies taken at Deyrolle shop in Paris. Located rue du Bac since 1888, the shop attracts amateurs and collectioneurs, who come to discover naturalised animals, collections of insects, butterflies, entomological material, minerals and fossils, a well as the famous old and republished plates. Founded in 1831 by Jean-Baptiste Deyrolle, fond of natural history, the house rapidly has taken a pedagogical vocation. AFP PHOTO JOEL SAGET / AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET

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