Severe winter weather, heavy rains and landslides are believed to have destroyed much of the butterfly population.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

She remembers that she did. "I think like many of the children in our world, I got interested in science just from having a butterfly net and from having a few strainers and some boots and going down to the streams and creeks and being out in the fields."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29