Anyone exploring the tropical jungles of the Americas has been dazzled by the iridescent and colorful butterflies everywhere, flitting through the light-dappled understory.

It wends past coffee plants, mahogany trees and iridescent butterflies and under a bamboo canopy to a breathtaking view of the valley.

Many of the world's most astonishingly beautiful creatures - from fluorescent frogs to iridescent butterflies - are the most poisonous.

We stumbled into an unusual store that sold taxidermied toads, iridescent butterflies mounted behind glass and an unusual selection of magnifying glasses and tropical plants.

As she reached him she became a lovely iridescent butterfly, then a very pretty wyvern.

All that was left of their magnificent balloon was a glowing ember that floated far overhead like an iridescent butterfly.

For the fourteenth year, visitors are invited to get up close and personal with hundreds of iridescent butterflies flitting among tropical blossoms in eighty-degree temperatures.

Together they discovered a new subspecies, a small iridescent blue butterfly with what looked like a curved hair at the bottom of its wings.

An iridescent 30-inch-wide butterfly fashioned from pheasant and grouse feathers ($8,500), was made in England in the late 19th century.

He held an object up: a tremendous iridescent butterfly, floated in a slab of transparent plastic.