Italian museum recreates Tanzanian butterfly forest

FILE - A papilio rumanzovia butterfly flies through flowers at the greenhouse of the Museo delle Scienze (MUSE), a science museum in Trento, Italy, May 6, 2024. FILE - Ornithologist Francesca Rossi holds a newborn female attacus lorquinii at the greenhouse of the Museo delle Scienze (MUSE), a science museum in Trento, Italy, May 6, 2024. FILE - Heliconius melpomene butterflies at the greenhouse of the Museo delle Scienze (MUSE), a science museum in Trento, Italy, May 6, 2024.

In a lush greenhouse high in the Alps, butterflies of various species and colors flutter freely while butterfly pupae are suspended in a structure as they grow into adult insects.