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London Butterfly House has the Kids All Aflutter

By: Madeleine Cowley
LONDON (REUTERS).- Hundreds of butterflies are emerging from chrysalises, taking flight, sipping aphrodisiac and delighting children at London’s Natural History Museum just in time for the Easter and summer school holidays. The “Sensational Butterflies” exhibition in a climate-controlled temporary home on the front lawn of the museum will be swirling with live butterflies and moths taken from around the world until September. Atlas — the world’s largest moth species, the noisy Cracker butterfly and the bright orange Julia butterfly from Brazil — which has been spotted drinking the tears from the eyes of caimans — can all be found fluttering about the hot, humid jungle-like interior of the museum’s butterfly house. Inside, visitors are surrounded by butterflies and moths in all shapes, sizes and in a riot