Florida Museum Readies Butterflies for Hurricane Idalia

University of Florida

While most Floridians think of hurricane preparation as buying supplies, sandbagging doorways, and boarding up windows, the Florida Museum of Natural History and its staff had a special task to accomplish before the storm: capturing all of the butterflies in the museum's Butterfly Rainforest.

Hurricane Idalia is expected to hit Florida Wednesday morning as a Category 3, according to the National Hurricane Center as of Tuesday afternoon. Alachua County, where the University of Florida is located, has been under a hurricane warning since Monday night.

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