Giant blue butterflies to make you flutter

Large exotic butterflies and the chance to see life through the eyes of an insect are being promised at the Natural History Museum.

The Sensational Butterflies exhibit, which opens next Tuesday, features more than 1,500 butterflies in a tent recreating a tropical rainforest.

Luke Brown, the Butterfly House manager, said fresh exhibits will be flown in from Belize every week because of the butterflies' short lifespans, adding: "We bring in around 500 pupae a week,
and people can watch them emerge. This year we wanted to focus on senses, so we have goggles so that visitors see as the insect would."

Species include the large Blue Morpho with a six-inch wingspan which Mr Brown says is a "showstopper".

The exhibition runs until September.