Tropical Wings Nature Center features the largest butterfly house in Belize, as well as a museum and nature trails. A weekly tropical trivia contest appears on our web pages.
The Wild Ones connects children age 7-14 with teachers, conservation professionals, and other children from around the world.
The project provides a forum for participants to share observations, research, artwork, and creative writing about endangered animals and habitats. Habitat stewardship is encouraged and supported through teacher designed, classroom based activities.
Where can you go to see butterflies at The Field Museum? The Field Museum's Butterfly Web Site, of course! The site
will tell you all about butterfly basics: the differences
between butterflies and moths, their life cycle, and more,
using colorful images from our Insects collection, plus
prints from the Library’s rare book room.
My site includes journal entries about raising monarch butterflies. I collected caterpillars from my own garden and raised them to the adult phase, at which time, they were released. I released 11 total. I will soon be adding a journal on raising Eastern Black Swallowtails.
The Wild Ones is a teacher-designed, classroom-based conservation education program.
A network of more than 20,000 students and 1,000 teachers and conservation biologists in 26 countries share their observations, artwork, creative writing, and research about endangered animals and their habitats.
Contents include natural history information of endangered animals, student work, scientist biographies, and resource and curriculum materials for teachers.
Content in Spanish and English
This site is a landscaping information resource for the do-it-yourself homeowner. Topics include landscape design, landscape installation and landscape maintenance.
Specific to European species, this list of butterflies is intended for all amateur entomologists. A complete list is
given of the species found in The Netherlands, Belgium and
Luxembourg. Nearly all the entries include commentary about
habitat and distinguishing characteristics. The photo
gallery includes works by half a dozen photographers.
These pages are maintained by Arto Avanto in Finland. Pages are made especially observations for migrants , and in Finland more rare butterflies and moths. Checklist of Finnis lepidoptera, maps of distributions,
Homepage of TEKS ( The Entomological Club of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Turku )
Florida Plants Online is a guide to the plant life and natural environment of Florida. Annotated links and features include the Young Naturalist Page at http://www.floridaplants.com/youngn.htm
This page is dedicated to butterflies. Here you will find links to my favorite butterfly poems, graphic sites and other butterfly sites. There is also a link to my homepage. and don't forget to sign my guestbook!
A birding and nature site for Michigan and surrounding area.
Includes recent birding reports, State and local hotspots,
monarch butterflies, wildflowers, photos, tips, a featured
bird of the month page and links. Plans for the future
include nest box and feeder designs and bat conservation
information.
The virtual gardens is a collection of garden pages from on-line Rosarians of all types. It is a place where even the most novice computer user can display their garden on the Internet.
A family garden in Texas with English roots, where the border colors change with the seasons and the wildlife turns
tame. Garden features include perennial borders, Euro-styled
plant training of espalieir, standards, pleaching, topiary
and more. Garden journal details seasonal bloom times and
family incidents in our 'outdoor living room'.
Hummingbirds, butterflies and wild birds are the focus here. Extensive gardening tips, photographs for identification aids, behavior notes and feeding facts are featured. Send free bird and butterfly postcards.
Welcome to the project-based learning adventure for teachers, students and nature advisors. See what happens when teachers, nature experts and kids get together to explore plants, animals, habitats, and the influence of people on our environment.
Built for both the public and for researchers, NC State AgNIC Systematic Entomology is a collaborative effort to collect, organize, and provide access to the best academic, scholarly, research, and practical resources available on the identification, classification, nomenclature, and evolution of insects and related arthropods.
Environmental ezine Canada's 1st and only Public forum, childrens area, multimedia multi-lingual format, updated weekly/daily
new areas
bi-monthly themes
Butterflies found in North Carolina! I`m working on the NC list of 162 species and have currently about half of them with "live" photos and descriptions. Also plan on doing the same with Dragonflies found in NC.
Friends of the Brooker Creek Preserve is a non-profit citizens
group to support the mission of, and solicit support for the Brooker Creek Preserve,
an 8,500 acre nature and wildlife area surrounded by urban sprawl.
It is one of the largest preservation areas in an urban area
in the state of Florida.
This is a photo-intensive site with special emphasis on orchids and butterflies, but including just about any interesting creature that I can get a decent picture of. There is a butterfly metamorphosis and picture gallery, a Critter gallery, and an Orchid gallery and orchid-related information.
A site devoted to the butterflies of Europe, with photographs, notes and links to other sites of interest. It includes a guide, still under construction, to the butterflies of the local Swiss region.
This site is dedicated to my love of gardening and provides information on starting seeds indoors, butterfly gardening, companion planting, and also
offers gardening tips and tricks.
Butterflies that live, lay eggs, nectar and visit my garden. Host and nectar plants, tips and tricks for butterfly gardening. Photos and descriptions of butterflies,
caterpillars, chrysalis and eggs. Join the Butterfly Gardening web ring.
My garden is the world that surrounds me every day. The Flowers, birds and butterflies that fill my yard, the trees and grasses and wild animals that share my piece of that world. Come and share in my world.
Botanica's website introduces you to our beautiful, intricately designed gardens. Visit a special page on our Butterfly House, where hundreds of free-flight butterflies live. At the Hatching House, you will see chrysalises emerge and dry themselves, then float into the Butterfly House. Take a virtual tour of the Shakespeare Garden, the Rose and Wildflower Gardens, the lily ponds, Perennial Gardens, Woodland Glade and more. Also new at Botanica is the Sensory Garden. Designed as an enabling garden, it features a living plant wall.
The goal of this site is to be as complete as possible about the biology and ecology of butterflies and moths. I hope this site will become quite informative and interesting for a broad public. I try to make a species index for both butterflies and moths. If available there will be photo's of each stage from the lifecycle.
'Parkland In Our Backyard' is an award winning home garden in our locality. It has a variety of features and themes and demonstrates what can be done in the confines of an average back yard.
Discovery of Moroccan butterflies and their natural habitats. The problem of protecting arid biomes. Protection measures. Details concerning the author.
Mrs. Rose Shows You... Parents, Teachers, and Students, visit this site to share in our Art Room Adventures. And take a look at Monarch Butterflies and Other Pretty Things!
My site is about butterflies, moths, life cycle of Luna Moth, nectar sources, photos, WW II, East Prussia, books and butterfly & moth poems and drawings by children.
Personal site, with an emphasis on my butterfly garden in south Florida, and information on plants, butterflies and butterfly gardening in the contiguous 48 states.
This web site was created with the intention to draw your attention to other mostly overlooked beauties of the Antalya region, beauties of which usually visitors or even citizens are not aware of, namely the wildflowers and butterflies.Butterflies were photographed within their natural habitat and we did our best for not giving them any harm
I am interested in photograph and butterflies. And I am anxious to show you some of them in Japan. Two more new pictures are added in my site every month. Please check it out!
Observations in pictures of butterflies in Europe. Links to other European butterfly websites. Links to pictures of European butterflies on www.
Alles over vlinders in Europa: links, waarnemingen, fotos,…
Butterfly and moth observation techniques, life cycle, mimicry, your comments on distribution, pictures and links.
Specials section on the butterflies of Presqu'ile Provincial Park.
A non profit organization committed to the promotion, knowledge and cultivation of wild and cultivated violets, and to restoring their role in the environmental and horticultural landscapes in North America and the world.
Watch an on-line metamorphosis from larva to caterpillar to butterfly complete with butterfly activities and resources. Developed by grade three students in Yukon, Canada. There are lots of original games, activities, learning resources and more
Birdwing butterflies of the world: systematic and taxonomic notes, image gallery covering all known species of birdwing butterflies, most subspecies and many forms.
This site features images of and information about the butterflies of Malaysian Borneo. The site also provides links to other interesting and descriptive sites.
Skipper News provides you just about anything regarding skippers of the family Hesperiidae, including News Flash, Classification, New publications, Picture links arranged geographically and Taxonomically.
This site offers photos and a checklist of butterflies in Thailand as well as information on general butterfly biology and identification of species. Also in Thai.
A photographic and editorial summary of the known species of Papilionidae (Swallowtail Butterflies).
Created as a free "web - reference" for amateur and professional
butterfly enthusiasts around the World.
The Beginnings of a young couple who slowed down, changed lifestyles, bought an old abandoned farm and have found peace, love, happiness and good health in living a simpler life.
Travel with us as we blow life back into an old Tennessee homestead.
About 233 kinds of butterflies are inhabiting Japan.
There are a butterfly of the north country and a butterfly of the southern country.
Enjoy it together.
My Country Garden includes hundreds of photos and information on the favorite plants in my garden - herbs, roses, clematis and flowers - along with organic methods, vegetables, and fruits. I have planted many shrubs and perennials to attract the birds and butterflies into our organic acre garden.
A website describing the Lepidopterans of the world. We endeavour to help others learn about the beautiful and majestic creatures in this order. Digital Photography of pinned and living specimens is featured.
May Lenzer, writer/author/naturalist displays a collection of photos, information on nature, dog rescue/dog related sites and writers' information.
Also introduces her book, "Waltz on the Wild Side, An Animal Lover's Journal" available soon.
NOTE: If the page is not accessible, please remove .html
from the URL and you should have no problem.
Meet the Garden friends..silly singing and talking animal characters..in Grandma Froid's mystical, magical garden. Fun filled activities for kids..song lyrics, pictures, color pages and safe, fun links. Original children's music recording, IN GRANDMA FROID'S GARDEN available at this family friendly website for kids of all ages.
All the information you can find on White-tailed deer. Including attracting and depriving deer tips. Check out the awards page and e-mail me your questions.
Our pages detail gardening tips and how-to information for hummingbird gardens, butterfly gardens, wildflower gardens, composting, the poem Daffodil, and information about hummingbirds and butterflies, as well as a club calendar.
Our pages detail gardening tips and how-to information for hummingbird gardens, butterfly gardens, wildflower gardens, composting, the poem Daffodil, and information about hummingbirds and butterflies, as well as a club calendar.
Lovejoy's Rescue Mountain is dedicated to wildlife rehabilitation and exotic pet rescue.
We provide care and rehabilitation to the orphaned and injured native wildlife. In addition we provide care for purchased wild and exotic animals no longer desired by people that they can no longer keep them.
Welcome to our ever-changing, ever-growing garden and pond pages. We love attracting birds, butterflies and any wildlife available to our yard. Please pay us a cyber-visit for many fun and lovely pictures and stories. It will help for you create your own backyard habitat — no matter where you are.
In this site I show you photographs of Japanese butterflies mainly in nature. You will see how close I can come to butterflies unifying myself and nature.
Butterflies, caterpillars and gardening. How to raise the garden, attract the butterflies, and then raise their caterpillars. Lots of photos, all written in good ol' English.
Japanese Butterfly Gallery is dedicated to anyone who is interested in Japanese butterflies. You can see many nature photographs of Japanese butterflies and some photos of specimens. I exchange Japanese butterflies if you would like to.
Nature has blessed Pakistan with unique landscape, the high mountains, Plateau, Plains, deserts and sunny beaches. High mountains dominate its north. Due to topographical and climatic variations Pakistan comprises different ecosystems. Despite great aesthetic, ecological,
educational, historical, recreational and scientific value of butterflies there is little information about the butterfly fauna of Pakistan. Attempt has been made to construct the website for identified species of family Papilionidae from Pakistan.
Our site was created with the aim to share with everyone some information about the
wonderful world of butterflies. We've crammed heaps of information about caterpillars,
butterflies and how this butterfly sanctuary came to be. We all feel lucky to work here,
it's so breathtaking being surrounded by so many butterflies, and so many happy visitors
enjoying the experience also.
Links to images, and descriptions of biology, behaviour, and life histories of 1262 Australian Lepidoptera species including 448 with Caterpillar pictures
Welcome to our site...we are an Australian, Queensland based club presenting to you interesting feature articles, creature features pages, host plants ( butterfly gardening ), galleries of butterfly paintings and photos, children's pages, membership information.
Our Website is about The First International Festival of Nature in Bialowieza - Mikrosfera. This Festival includes: photographs of nature contest, international seminar, concert, book fair, auction, film of nature projection.
Information on South Australian butterflies for scientists and butterfly enthusiasts. Images, life histories, caterpillar foodplants, butterfly gardening and habitat restoration.
Dedicated to the butterflies of Singapore - featuring graphics of butterflies in the wild, checklists, life histories and general tips on butterfly watching and photography
Mount Magazine is located in the north west part of Arkansas. It is part of the Boston Mountains and Ozark National Forest. This site is dedicated to
the preservation of this wonderful location and its variety of wildlife.
The utter chaos which is cobwebbed? likely reveals much about my psyche. It is also the continuously tampered-with web site where I share my love of nature, primarily through my nature photography and my published musings on nature. Information on gardening, wildflowers, astronomy (meteor showers particularly), morel hunting, herbs, folkore and bird watching can can be found at cobwebbed? Also, in an attempt to massage some stress from the road-weary, I share some snippets of my music, some humorous fiction and a bit of satire on current events (like that needs satirizing, huh?). I only want to share what I love, and to make a few folks giggle.
"Wingin' It!" is a site that advertises the sale of Monarch
and Painted Lady butterflies for special occasions. We also
promote educational presentations about butterflies, their
life cycles, and the Monarch migration to school children
levels K-6. Various types of milkweed seeds are also sold.
Magical Monarchs is a place whereby your wishes and dreams are carried aloft on the gossamer wings of a butterfly.
Imagine if you will; if your thoughts on the beauty of a Monarch Butterfly are manifested throughout your everyday life.
How far and how high can we ourselves fly?
Diddley the dinosaur takes kids on a tour of his habitat and his friends. Also includes information about the rainforest, volcanos, bugs, and science experiments.
Familiar butterflies of North America. A description of the life and habitat of different species. How to watch butterflies, where to find them and identify them. Lots of beautiful pictures.
A virtual tour of our Pacific Northwest garden, including seasonal offerings...lots of gardening information with a heavy emphasis on perennials, a garden journal and also a page on making soap at home.
A description of a small garden in Dublin, Ireland.
There are many features including a Garden Diary, Tips, Links, and many pictures of my garden, pond and favourite plants.
Gardening site serving gardeners in the Southeastern US as well as around the US, providing high quality content regarding
gardening, birding and butterfly gardening, as well as products
for the discerning gardener…
Welcome to my Garden full of photos and Stories. I live at Saint Georges Basin on the beautiful south coast of
New South Wales, Australia and share my life and garden with my humble husband (ha!) and three, quiet,
young children.(ha! ha! ha!) Enjoy your visit and don't forget to try my Yummy Chocolate Cake.
This site contains many close-up photographs of butterflies and other insects and small creatures of the Malaysian rainforest, as well as write-ups on some of these creatures.
Creative By Nature specializes in gifts that are created by artisans from South Carolina. We refer to these talented
artists as "Creative Neighbors" and are proud to offer
birdhouses, butterfly boxes, candles, art prints, stained
glass, wood scroll and other gifts for your home and garden.
Located near Mathis, Texas, we provide live butterflies for release at special events, educational programs for children and adults, and butterfly gift items,
rearing kits and supplies.
The Kingston Field Naturalists, founded in 1949, provides public interest in nature, protection and preservation of wildlife, and acquires and provides
knowledge of natural history. Their journal Blue Bill's web
site has articles on bird feeding and housing, trees and
shrubs to attract wildlife, and butterfly and hummingbird
gardening.
A service of the Florida Wildlife Extension Service providing a font of useful information about wildlife issues, landscaping for wildlife, and other cool stuff about wildlife in Florida.
An eclectic collection featuring images of aircraft, butterflies and roses, a MIDI library and poetry corner featuring Christ-centered poetry and
a link page of useful web resources and personal family information pages.
The Creative Gardener is a mix of photographs and articles, and offers insights into garden design, particularly the use of color in the garden. The Photo Gallery offers portraits of roses, daylilies, bulbs, and foliage plants. You can stroll through the author's personal garden in a tour from Spring to Fall.
The site is intended to be a virtual nature reserve based on our land in Devon, Great Britain. The land is of a special type, known as Culm Grassland or Rhos Pasture. There are rare buterflies there,(Marsh Fritillaries) as well as several interesting plants. The site is aimed mainly at local schools.
This site contains information about the life cycle of the Painted Lady butterfly, butterfly FAQs answered by 2nd graders, the endangered Metalmark butterfly and a cute butterfly trivia game plus resources for teachers.
Second graders have observed the butterfly life cycle, written a diary, made symmetrical drawings, and shared many other interests with future on-line friends.
This website is a photographic encyclopaedia of British Moths, mainly encountered in the North-West of England, but soon to expand to more of Britain. Moths are illustrated in their natural resting positions as an aid to identification. The site is continually updated with new species and will eventually include photographs of larvae too.
This is a family site, with many facets, one of which is a photographic tour of my "Magical Garden. I will shortly
be putting up a page on Monarch Butterflies. There are two things I love in my garden, Monarchs for their beauty, and Tuis for their haunting birdsong.
Sadly Monarch butterflies in New Zealand are being attacked by wasps, and preventative measures have to be taken to ensure their survival.
Glyndale Elementary School has an outstanding Outdoor Classroom Program which includes a butterfly garden, wildlife habitat and nature trail. With the cooperation of the PTA, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Urbana Garden Club and students from Brunswick High, our school has participated in planting flowers, trees and shrubs in our wildlife habitat areas. Educational activities include birdwatch counts and observations of insects and animals which visit our habitat.
This site features the work of students at Fredstrom Elementary School in Lincoln, NE. Our purpose is to offer
information on the life cycle and migration of the monarch,
based on our classroom experiences raising, breeding and
tagging monarchs. We request and will answer monarch
sighting reports to our data base.
Over forty photos taken in nature of butterflies and moths from around the world with special emphasis on lepidoptera in Virginia. There are also examples of mating, predation and larvae.
This site features images of and information about the giant silkmoths, sphingidae, and larger butterflies of Northeastern
North America. Useful tips for rearing these insects are
provided. The site also provides links to other clorful and
descriptive sites.
This web site presents lists of species and images of Hawaii's rare, endangered, and extinct plants and animals. Hawaii has more endangered species per area than any other place in the world.
Amateur entomologist would like to meet people around the world sharing the same interest (butterfly collection) in order to exchange both ideas and specimens
Web site for news, information, and happenings in entomology and in the Entomological Society of America--a 7,000+ member scientific, professional, and educational organization.
The butterfly site deals with the butterfly fauna of the Maltese Islands, situated in the Central Mediterranean. Information is also given for the Maltese Islands and for the author himself.
The Department of Entomology - Texas A&M University web site strives to provide quality information about all of the aspects of entomology and related fields. This includes research, academics, extension activities, educational outreach and more.
A homepage with a little of everything. Gardening, photography, quilting, poetry, and some silly stuff too. Ever evolving,
you should stop by often to see what is new!
The ECNC Web site provides information about the European Centre for Nature Conservation and is a reference site for nature conservation matters in Europe, including a Directory of organizations, overview of international nature conservation policy, a Virtual library, and a free slide list.
This site features the life cycle of the Luna Moth and info about the Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth. It also has a Nectar Source page with a list of plants and their visitors.
Photographs of Japanese butterflies in nature, Also uploaded some photos in Hawaii and Guam. I started taking photographs of butterflies in spring of 1996 when I bought a camera with macro lense.
This site has been set up for two main reasons: 1. Butterfly Gallery: Photos from Tours to Ecuador, Venezuela, and Belize.
I have been organising and leading small group butterfly photography tours to Ecuador for several years, during which
time I have amassed several hundred photos. Photos will also be exhibited from Venezuela, where I have recently led two tours, and from Belize, which I visited in February 1997.
2. Advertising my book, The Butterflies of Venezuela.
In November 1996 I published the first part of an identification guide to the butterflies of Venezuela. As the author and publisher, it is my responsibility to ensure it sells well!
The Good, the Bad and the Pretty! Provides detailed information on insects, mites, nematodes and planaria.
Some are pests, some are beneficial, some are pretty and
all are interesting. Includes many full color photographs
for each species.
These Sites show my "Butterfly-Picture Collection".
The pictures were taken in Germany and Austria. Very popular,
but also very rare species can be seen.
My personal web page about nature -- birds, bluebirds, butterflies, photography, travel, my backyard, the county where I live (Calvert), gardening, and nature links.
BUTTERFLIES. Lots of graphics, images, icons, animations, lines, bars, backgrounds, border sets, and links for Butterflies. Graphics for Fairies, Flamingos, and Hippie stuff, too. Links for graphics, midis, etc.
Milkweed Cafe: Something for Everyone Who Loves Butterflies! We offer informational books about raising, gardening for, and celebrating with
butterflies. Our site also contains butterfly metamorphosis
videos, still photos, and a free Send a Virtual Card Page.
A butterfly and herb garden as seen through the eyes of a pot-bellied pig. My website is dedicated to my beloved pig Avignon and the various plants and herbs that I planted to attract beautiful butterflies in Central Florida.
Home Page of amateur Lepidopterist Doug Dawn. Interests include Neotropical butterflies, the adventure or finding them and capturing their beauty on film. Other references to botanical exploration, world adventure travel and a complete article in Spanish recently published on local butterfly fauna in a Nature Magazine in Monterrey, Mexico, where I actively observe butterflies every weekend.
High quality photos and descriptions of European butterflies.
The photos are made by various photographers from all over Europe.
Includes more than 200 photos of over 160 European butterfly species.
Photographer, author and webmaster: Mario Maier.
Okutama is the area west of Tokyo, Japan, mostly included in the Chichibu-Tama National Park.This site shows photos and observed data of this area processed by computer into a 4-dimensional map which the author calls a 4D emergence pattern.
The home of a "green", or inexperienced gardener. Learn along with me. You'll find information, pictures, book reviews, and lots of links, all with the new gardener in mind.
A series of pages showing some moths and butterflies we have raised over the past few years. The pages include original images and some information on each of the species.
A virtual garden site of an experienced gardener sharing ideas on plant selection, landscape design, garden art and
structures, and favorite products for home gardeners;
featuring Amazon.com Books, Electronic Newsstand,
LandscapeUSA, Roses, Garden Shows, Catalogues, Pergolas,
Container Gardens, Soil, Shade Gardening, Tomatoes, Coffee
Klatch, Zones, and Pansies.
Everything Minnesota! Wildlife profiles, wolves, eagles, etc. Minnesota links to great sights in Minnesota. Come take a tour! Also crafts links and you can meet my dogs!
Provides information on the activities of the HKLG, including fieldtrips, conservation and butterfly watching.
Lists the butterflies found in Hong Kong and illustrates many of these; moth species are planned to be included in due course.
Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) and Gesellschaft für Schmetterlingsschutz (GfS) in cooperation with about 450 lepidopterists from all over Europe are working on a distribution
atlas of European butterflies. The MEB project is supervised by Dr. Otakar Kudrna. Please read Project Outline for closer information.
Learn how to attract wildlife to your backyard or even get rid of unwanted animals humanely. New wildlife site and nature forum, ask us a question and we will answer you.