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Itty Bitty Butterfly

  • May 1, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The rare Sinai baton blue butterfly is one of the world’s smallest, with a wingspan around the width of a dime. These insects live and feed exclusively on patches of wild thyme found only in Saint Katherine’s Protectorate, an area of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

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