 Oh, hi everyone. I'm Alicia Anderson and welcome to the Fort Worth. Be there, we quiet. I'm hunting rabbits. I mean butterflies. They're just such beautiful creatures and I love watching them up close. Oh, it's hard to catch wild butterflies. If only there were some place I could go to see a bunch of butterflies up close. Some place where I didn't need this net. Some place in Fort Worth where I could walk among thousands of exotic fluttering butterflies from all around the world and watch them land on tropical flowers or even my own finger. Wouldn't that be great? It's a biannual exhibit and it starts March 1st and runs through April 3rd. You go into our tropical conservatory and you see all those lovely plants and flowers and then you are surrounded by tropical butterflies from all around the world. We get butterflies from Malaysia, the Philippines, Kenya, other places in Africa, but we're highlighting butterflies from Central and South America because our theme is the Mayan experience. During the course of the exhibit, we have about 50 different species and probably about 1500 flying in the conservatory at any one given time. The species mix kind of varies from week to week because we get shipments of butterfly pupae in every week. So what you might see at the beginning of the exhibit might be different than what you would see in the middle or towards the end of the exhibit. Butterflies might land on you but you can't help them escape. As part of the USDA permit, the government wants us to put safeguards in that these exotic butterflies don't escape into the environment. So when people come, they'll notice that as they enter and exit, they'll feel an air current that's to sort of blow the butterflies back and that also when you exit, we have a couple of mirrors so you can inspect yourself for hitchhiking butterflies. They often like to land on our clothes and try to take a ride out of the conservatory so we have volunteers to help look you over and you can examine yourself and your belongings for possible hitchhikers. Visit www.bitg16.org to purchase tickets or to register for education classes. Here's a look at other events happening in and around Fort Worth in the next few weeks. For a listing of more events and city meetings, you always can check the calendar at the city's website.