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How to Care for Our Butterfly Art

Our displays are easy to clean: Just dust the wooden frames as you would any other frames. If the glass needs cleaning, simply use glass cleaner. We suggest using a cloth or paper towel moistened with the glass cleaner, rather than spraying it directly onto the glass.

To ensure that your framed butterflies and moths stay beautiful for years to come:

These amazing specimens have been specially preserved to allow for decades of decorative enjoyment and education, provided they are treated properly. The preservation technique allows the specimens to stay crisp and beautiful for years to come and they will not crumble or fall apart. Along with this special preservation technique, you too can help the butterflies retain their beauty even further. Just follow these simple suggestions to enjoy these gifts of nature for years to come.

Avoid prolonged, excessive heat. As a guideline, it’s ok to put them in a window, as long as that window doesn’t get too hot for you to sit in front of for the entire day. Long-term, direct sunlight may cause the specimen to fade and/or deteriorate at an accelerated rate and may cause the glass display to fog. Please also avoid storing the displays in an attic or any other area that can get extremely hot.

Do not display your specimens in a bathroom that lacks a venting fan. Heavy steam causes humidity, which with prolonged exposure, could damage the display and/or cause the butterflies to deteriorate at an accelerated rate. Although the glass used in our displays is very secure within the frame, it’s not airtight. We’ve had customers use clear caulking sealant to make the frames airtight, and we hear this works well.

An artificial full-spectrum light source is recommended if you wish to highlight the displays with feature lighting. Full-spectrum bulbs are readily available at most garden and pet supply shops, as well as hardware stores. Our displays are beautiful with regular room lighting; the extra lighting is just a suggestion if you really want the stunning colors to really stand out. The displays look great hung up on any color wall.