Article: A fatal oversight: Butterflies at Moscow exhibit perish for want of a 'do not touch' sign.

Byline: Erika Niedowski

May 17--MOSCOW -- The potted flowers and sprawling ferns were in place, arranged just so around the rock gardens and a few water-filled pools. Small tin lids containing a sugar-water mix -- the perfect meal for an insect -- had been laid out as if at a formal dinner. Three hundred tropical butterflies native to faraway lands had arrived for the big day: the grand opening of Moscow's House of Butterflies.

And then something went radically wrong.

People came. And touched. And touched some more. And within days, 200 of the butterflies were dead.

"Kids wanted to understand if they were alive or not," said exhibit ...

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