Special thanks to the following:

Kjell B. Sandved, author, lecturer and photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, for use of his “Butterfly Letters,” which are naturally occurring images he discovered in the wings of butterflies.

It took him 24 years of worldwide travels to find and photograph thousands of different letters of the alphabet on the wings of butterflies without capturing or killing them.

To see the first alphabet found on the wings of butterflies, and to order a high-quality print of a name or message of your choice in colorful Butterfly Letters, visit his site: www.butterflyalphabet.com.

Create Butterfly E-Card messages carried aloft on the wings of butterflies.

Dean Rohrer for use of his staircase illustration on our home page.

Brooke O'Donnell, part-time OBS Administrator/Researcher, for use of the picture of herself with a Monarch butterfly on the OBS Team page.