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Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Jeff Balke. What a wonderful silhouetted shot of a child playing against the projection of butterflies outside the Cockrell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 345 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The Day,...

Love butterflies? Houstonist does too!!! (and frogs!) Saturday is all about the butterfly as the Cockrell Butterfly Center holds a butterfly adoption from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.. For the low, low price of $15/per person (which includes admission to the Butterfly Center) participants have the opportunity to release a butterfly into the Center. Every butterfly parent receives a certificate of adoption, a gift and a mention online! As if that weren't enough, there's more!!...

Houstonist has seen them: crawling around the bathroom, flitting through doors, hovering in the kitchen. And Houstonist has felt them: at dusk, after a rain, or mysteriously, in the middle of the afternoon. The bugs have returned in force, and we recommend you do something about them. Educate: The Texas Bug Book: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is a top-notch tome, with up-close pictures and information on life cycles, habitats, economic importance,...

Amateur entomologists may finally have a financial incentive for keeping their creepy little friends around, or in this case, trading them in. The Houston Museum of Natural History is offering cold hard Cash for Cockroaches with the goal of collecting 1,000 of our twitchy little house mates for the New Brown Hall of Entomology. Admittedly, 25 cents a pop may not be enough to lure one away from a career in investment banking, but...

Paper by Design has some amazing pumpkin photos. We can only wish for that kind of talent, our efforts look more like a two year old did the carving (Houstonist Warning: Toddlers and knives do not go well together!! Always supervise closely when the little ones want to "help".) We found a site where you can hone your carving skills and try your hand at lots of designs, without all of the scooping and...