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A resin cast of a butterfly life cycle including all six stages. Each specimen was collected from the Horniman Butterfly House in August 2017. The adult in the life cycle is a Monarch butterfly. In the wild the Monarch butterfly occurs in Northern America.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
HC.2017.162
Date
2017-10-23
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
resin
CATEGORY
Education Handling Collection: Natural History
LOCATION
Hands on Base > Display > Discovery Box
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