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Ailing New Zealand butterfly collector gives away life's work

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Ailing New Zealand butterfly collector gives away life's workKarori, New Zealand (AFP) Sept 27, 2024

A New Zealand enthusiast spent half a century amassing one of the world's largest private butterfly collections. As death nears, he has handed this life's work of 20,000 specimens to a museum. Wheelchair-bound and ravaged by multiple sclerosis, 68-year-old John McArthur vividly recalls the first time he saw a butterfly. He was 10 years old and it was a shock of yellow and black, a swallo
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A New Zealand enthusiast spent half a century amassing one of the world's largest private butterfly collections. As death nears, he has handed this life's work of 20,000 specimens to a museum.

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