Natural History Curiosities - Supporting the Mida Butterfly Farm in Watamu, Kenya

Supporting the Mida Butterfly Farm in Watamu, Kenya

We always try to find good partners for our specimen. Partners that take care of both nature conservation and improve local economics of small communities. Today we are proud to mention that we support the Mida Butterfly Farm in Watamu, Kenya. Mida Butterfly Farm was established in 1990 to work out the breeding requirements of …

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The sustainable evolution of butterfly breeding

The sustainable evolution of butterfly breeding

Butterflies are among the most colorful and charismatic of insects, and their extraordinary diversity has been the focus of studies by amateur naturalists and professional entomologists for over two centuries. Butterflies have long been model organisms for basic biological research in the fields of behavior, population genetics, and systematics. More recently, studies of butterfly life …

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