Press Packer Ruby, 11, helped look after the animals in a museum butterfly jungle.
Here's her report:
"The Natural History Museum in South Kensington has a new exhibition called the Butterfly Jungle.
It has lots of tropical butterflies and big, scary moths flying around free in a jungle-like habitat.
It not only has butterflies, but small jungle creatures of all sorts as well.
Jungle atmosphere
I spent an afternoon with the Head Keeper, Luke, and some of his staff helping to care for some of these creatures.
Ruby with Charlie the iguana
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It was really hot and steamy because they keep the atmosphere the same as the jungles in Asia, Africa and South America where the butterflies and animals come from.
Hatching bugs
On display in a special case are lots of chrysalises which the butterflies and moths hatch out from.
You can see some of them wriggling! After they hatch, the keepers catch them by their wings and release them into the jungle.
Each week they get about 300 chrysalises from overseas, and the people that collect them earn money from this, instead of cutting down trees in the rainforests, so it helps the environment.
Fantastic animals
Ruby helps with the fruit eating bugs
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There are lots of animals too. Charlie the green iguana is two years old, and by the time he is fully grown he will be six feet long.
Sumo the Argentinean horned frog is my absolute favourite.
All he does is sit in the same place all day. Horned frogs sit on the jungle floor, and anything that moves in front of them they will try to eat, even a horse. But because they wouldn't let go, they'd probably die.
The butterfly jungle is a great place to visit and I definitely recommend it. "
Ruby, 11, Milton Keynes
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