Ticket to Write: Preserve draws vast variety of butterflies

Birds aren't the only beautiful flying creatures winging above southern Texas.Visitors to the Rio Grande Valley can see more than 150 species of butterflies that appear nowhere else in the United States. And many of those species, plus other, more-common butterflies, can be seen at the National Butterfly Center near Mission, Texas.The center, just a mile from the World Birding Center site at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, has recorded more than 200 species of butterflies — plus [...]