About Us

Check out our butterfly articles and photos in
Birds & Blooms magazine
you can buy single issues or subscribe on
their website www.birdsandblooms.com

Judy Burris and Wayne Richards
Professional Freelance
Nature Photographers, Writers and Speakers
Lectures and Consulting by appointment
Expert Butterfly Gardeners

For scheduling information:
email at: wrichards@insightbb.com

Articles and publications

Butterfly Gardener magazine (summer 2004) front cover photograph and interior photo page 13
Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper (July 9, 2005) In The Garden (Beth Burwinkel) "Book born out of butterfly love"
Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper (December 31, 2005) In The Garden (Beth Burwinkel) "These new year's resolutions could grow on you"
Birds & Blooms Extra magazine (March 2006) "Uncover the identity of the tiny butterfly eggs in your garden"
The Life Cycles of Butterflies (April 2006) paperback and hardcover books available from Storey Publishing
Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper (April 15, 2006) In The Garden (Beth Burwinkel) "Butterfly enthusiasts' new book takes wing"
Birds & Blooms Extra magazine (Sept. 2006) "Test your Butterfly IQ" (pg. 5) and "Roots and Wings" (pg. 40)
Butterfly Gardener magazine (summer 2006) black swallowtail photo on page 13
Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper (Sept. 16, 2006) In The Garden (Beth Burwinkel) "Erlanger siblings featured in magazine"
Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper (Jan. 13, 2007) In The Garden (Beth Burwinkel) "Book wins Teachers' Choice Award"
Nature's Garden magazine, Better Homes and Gardens (premier issue spring 2007) Special Butterfly Section pages 28 - 35
Birds & Blooms magazine (April 2007) zebra swallowtail photo on page 22
Birds & Blooms Extra magazine (May 2007) "Just for Kids" (pg. 61) frog photo
Cincinnati magazine (June 2007) "Local Inspiration" Gardener Recognition Award (pg. 204)
Birds & Blooms Extra magazine (Nov. 2007) "Mistaken Identity" (pg. 48 - 49) all caterpillar photos
Birds & Blooms magazine (June/July 2008) "Ready for a Walk?" (pg. 41 + 45) butterfly photos
Cincinnati magazine (June 2008) "Field of Dreams" (pg. 156 - 161)
Birds & Blooms Extra magazine (Jan. 2009) photo on page 38
Backyard Living magazine (March 2009) photos on pages 3 and 26
Nature's Garden magazine, Better Homes and Gardens (spring 2009 issue) "Host the Most Butterflies"

We are Judy Burris and Wayne Richards, a sister-brother author and
photographer team. We have been intrigued with butterflies since we were
children. We were raised to have a strong respect for the natural world and
always enjoyed spending time on hiking trails looking for animals and trying
to identify the trees, wildflowers and insects that we saw. As adults, this
childhood interest in animal and plant life has translated into a nearly
full-time devotion to gardening specifically to support butterflies in every
stage of their development, (egg - caterpillar - chrysalis - butterfly). We have
spent many years observing, hand-raising, and photographing these
miraculous creatures in our own backyard butterfly gardens. We live in
northern Kentucky about ten miles from Cincinnati, Ohio. We enjoy
teaching others about flower gardening, nature photography and butterfly
life cycles. We encourage everyone to give more serious thought to natural
habitat conservation and responsible, poison-free management of their own
backyards to support native flora and fauna for future generations to enjoy.
Our first book, The Life Cycles of Butterflies (Storey Publishing) is available
online and at retail stores now.

Don't forget to check
carefully for butterfly
chrysalises and moth
cocoons when you cut
down old plants to
throw away during
the clean-up of your
flower garden!

Click here to visit the Children's Butterfly Site

Click here for butterfly coloring pages

Click here for fun science pages

Click the
picture for
butterfly
games!

* * * * Fun Butterfly and Moth Facts * * * *

		The fastest butterfly can fly 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour.
		Some moths never eat anything as adults because they don't even have mouths. They must live on
		the energy they stored when they were eating leaves as caterpillars.
		Butterflies can taste their food with their feet.
		Moths and butterflies smell with their antennae.
		Many people around the world (Africa, Australia, Asia, the Middle East and South America) actually
		eat bugs because they are rich in protein, vitamins, minerals and fats.
		Most insects are beneficial to people because they eat other insects, pollinate crops, are food for
		other animals, have medicinal uses and make products that we use, like honey and silk.
		The smallest butterfly, the Pygmy Blue in the southern USA, is only a half inch wide.
		The largest butterfly, the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing in the rain forest of New Guinea, is almost 12
		inches wide. Wow, that's as big as a bird.
		Caterpillars that over-winter produce glycerol in their body, a kind of natural antifreeze.
		The Painted Lady butterfly is the most wide-spread butterfly in the world.
		Once a butterfly emerges from its chrysalis it never grows any larger. Only the caterpillar grows.