Article: His knowledge takes wing: When entomologist Lorenzo Zayas sells a caterpillar, he teaches his customers about nature.

Byline: Sarah Langbein

Jan. 4--Lorenzo Zayas doesn't know the dearly departed or the happily married couple or the beaming birthday girl who has just blown out the candles. And yet he's able to give them a present of sorts, fitting for each occasion and symbolic in its own way. For a grieving family, it's a sign of rebirth. For newlyweds, it's a symbol of new life. And for the birthday girl, it's a beautiful creature to mark the beginning of another year. Zayas' butterflies have fluttered their way into the hearts and lives of many strangers.

"[A butterfly] gives them a feeling that it's going to be OK, that there's hope," says Tracy ...

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