November 12, 2004

The Butterfly Effect

By PIPER FOGG

A path lined with greenery and flowers bursting with nectar winds through a humid wonderland. Hundreds of brilliantly colored butterflies and moths flutter in loops and spirals, landing occasionally on a shoulder, a hand, a nose. Water trickles down limestone ledges into a creek where blue and orange fish dart. A wrought-iron bench under a tall palm tree provides a good view of butterflies mating on a nearby leaf.

This 6,400-square-foot Butterfly Rainforest exists inside a screened-in,

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