NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — What began as a childhood hobby more than six decades ago has led to what might be Africa’s largest butterfly collection in a suburb of Kenya’s capital. Steve Collins, 74, was ...

NAIROBI—Looking for a good home: 4.2 million butterflies. Steve Collins started collecting butterflies at age 5 on his family’s coffee farm on the flanks of Mount Elgon. He’s 74 now, and racing ...

CHICO — Chico biologist Sterling Mattoon is donating his extensive collection of 60,000 butterfly specimens to the University of Florida — after more than 70 years of collecting. “I’m 92 years old,” ...

When Steve Collins looks back on his life's work, there is so much to see. He amassed the largest collection of African butterflies in the world over the past 60 years. Now at 74, Collins says he is ...

MILLERSBURG – Encased in a series of cabinets, dozens of moth and butterfly displays sit in neatly arranged frames and mounts, waiting to be unearthed for its next showing. More than 18,000 of the ...

From his home in Harrisville, all the way to Asia, Europe and beyond, George Andrushko collected butterflies for nearly half a century. “My sweetheart loved butterflies and he loved collecting them,” ...

Akito Kawahara remembers being eight years old when he went on a special tour of the insect collection at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He marveled at the vast array of ...