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Fresh Sheet – April 27, 2019
The latest shipment of new residents in our Tropical Butterfly House comes from Malaysia and includes a remarkable member of the Swallowtail family.
Fresh Sheet – April 20, 2019
This week’s pupae for our Tropical are from El Salvador, and include a nice mixture of species.
Assassins in The Springtime
The ‘white-eyed assassin’ sounds like a character you’d encounter in a cloak-and-dagger TV drama or videogame. In actuality, it’s one of our resident bugs.
Fresh Sheet – April 13, 2019
In this week's pupae shipment from Costa Rica, we are getting a small number of Rothschildia lebeau (Lebeau's Rothschildia), a small but stunning silk moth with large transparent sections of its wing. The name silk moth is a little confusing. There are domestic...
Fresh Sheet – April 6, 2019
This week’s list of new residents to our Tropical Butterfly House features Biblis hyperia, commonly known as the Red Rim.
A Million Ways to Reproduce
Scientists think stick insects sometimes spread their eggs through birds that eat them. They spread them as they do seeds – through their digestive system.
Fresh Sheet – March 30, 2019
This week shipment of new arrivals to our Tropical Butterfly House comes from Malaysia and includes one species that has baffled our staff for a long time.
Eating Us in to House and Home: Stick Insects and Sustainability
Butterflies may take center stage at PacSci, but we also host other spectacular insects, including some with peculiar eating habits.
So, Why Do Some Animals Change?
The New York Times has published a story about new research into a subject near and dear to fans of Pacific Science Center’s Tropical Butterfly House: metamorphosis.Scientists have known about metamorphosis for a long time — caterpillars turn into...
