gynandromorph

close up of a black butterfly with metallic dots on a yellow flower

When someone asks me what is the “rarest” butterfly ever flown in the Christina Reiman Butterfly Wing, I usually talk about the Leopard Lacewing (Cethosia cyane) gynandromorph we received back in May of 2008. Gynandromorphs—the term used for an organism exhibiting both male and female characteristics on the same individual—are […]

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