Darlyne Murawski is a versatile nature photographer and writer with years of experience as a research biologist working with tropical plants and butterflies. Since 1993, her articles appear regularly in National Geographic Magazine and many international publications, children's magazines and calendars. She has traveled the world to showcase the lives and ecology of small critters - including butterflies, moths and their caterpillars, as well as other insects, fungi, parasites, spider webs, marine life of the intertidal zones, and glass-shelled diatoms