Insects
As far as wildlife goes, insects are surely the backbone of the natural world. They provide the majority of plant pollination that occurs, they are the main source of food for an untold number of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and arachnids. Insects help to decompose waste materials. They fly, crawl, and swim. There are estimated…
Butterflies & Moths
The notion of such such a bizarre (and occasionally creepy) life form as a caterpillar morphing into something as beautiful and elegant as a butterfly is perhaps one of life’s greatest paradoxes. While butterflies, being such flamboyant creatures of the sun, receive such attention, moths, their cousins from a world of (mostly) darkness and mystery…