In his free time, he is devoted to raising butterflies and taking care of the garden from where they eat. On a normal day, Wong works in the science museum taking care of 38,000 animals, including albino alligators, Japanese stingrays, and octopuses. These beauties start their life-cycle as tiny red eggs that hatch into a very large orange-speckled caterpillar then it has a gestation period of up to two years, finally, it emerges as a beautiful blue butterfly glimmering with oceanic tones. Credit: Tim Wongīutterfly collectors consider the wings from the California pipevine swallowtail - or, Battus philenor hirsuta, to be the most magnificent in North America. Various stage of pipevine swallowtail growth (from bottom: eggs, different growth stages of the caterpillar, chrysalis, full butterfly). But thankfully, a 28-year-old aquatic biologist at the California Academy of Sciences, Tim Wong, is single-handedly taking action to repopulate this beautiful creature, and he’s doing it all in his own backyard.
Unfortunately, as development grew the butterflies began to fade away. Before the 20th century in San Francisco, beautiful iridescent blue California pipevine swallowtail butterflies were found flying around all over the place.
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