Its 7-month development cycle is a biological challenge to replenishing the wild population. The butterfly is a specialist and lives in a very narrow ecological niche within Papua New Guinea's Oro ...
Volume I. Taxonomic list of birdwing butterflies -- Natural history of birdwing butterflies -- Man and birdwing butterflies -- Terminology -- Status -- Aberrations, biforms and oddities -- ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Birdwing butterflies are among the rarest and largest to grace the planet, their 10-inch (25.4-centimeter) wingspans flapping through the rainforests of Southeast Asia and Australia.
In 1906, naturalist Albert Stewart Meek discovered a butterfly so large that it defied belief. Living high in the canopies of Papua New Guinea, the Queen Alexandra birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) ...