Kew's Summer Festival 2010 (29 May - 5 Sept)

'Butterflies, Bugs & Beasties' in the Princess of Wales Conservatory

Izzy Weaver (3 years old)

Hummingbird sculptures flying over the Bromeliads

Alex McRobb (4 years old)

Caligo eurilochus

Izzy Weaver (3 years old)

Nimai Hedemark, Kew horticulturist with beetle sculpture by Ross Green

Nimai Hedemark, Kew horticulturist with beetle sculpture by Ross Green

Izzy Weaver (3 years old)

Close ups of the butterflies in the hatchery

Credit: RBG Kew

Cethosia cyane

Heliconius doris

Attacus atlas

Heliconium melpomene cythera

Heliconius charitonia

Argema mittrei

Danaus chrysippus

Attacus atlas

(All images below are for editorial use only and are avaliable for download on the condition they are accredited to Peter Gasson/RBG Kew)

Parides sp.

Swallowtail

Doxocopa agathina

Graphium antiphates

Diaethraea clymena

Thysanura agrippina

Morpho sp.

Monarch

Heliconius erato

Caligo sp.

Papilio glaucus

Lexias pardalis

Saturniidae caterpillar

Caterpillar

Monarch caterpillar

Monarch

Automeris rubrescens