Skip to content
Science
Link copied to clipboard
Link copied to clipboard
Exclusive to subscribersYou can now gift articles

Butterfly is half-male, half-female

It was like any other Friday morning for Academy of Natural Sciences volunteer Chris Johnson: help clean the butterfly exhibit, feed the insects, check to see if any new ones emerged overnight. Black ones, red ones, spotted ones, and. . .

This is a closeup of a bilateral gynandromorph Lexias pardalis (a genus and species of butterfly), at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Entomology Department, to go along with a story by Tom Avril focusing on Jason Weintraub. (CLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer )
This is a closeup of a bilateral gynandromorph Lexias pardalis (a genus and species of butterfly), at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Entomology Department, to go along with a story by Tom Avril focusing on Jason Weintraub. (CLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer )Read moreClem Murray
    by Tom Avril, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
    Published 
Published