"Thank you for being the ideal speaker. You treated our kids with such graciousness and respect."
Cathy Heim, Lengel School PTA

"Thank you for an absolutely fabulous program. Our Senior Scouts felt it was totally awesome."
Margaret Mason, Boyertown Girl Scouts

"You gave an absolutely wonderful lecture to our first grade class. They were so excited, we talked about butterflies for many, many days."
Helen Rusk , Hazleton Area School District

"Rick had a way of getting the kids interested. He taught them that they could be entrepreneurs."
Christopher Anderson, New Jersey Juvenile Corrections, Jamesburg Facility

"Rick is an unbelievable teacher."
Darrell Carrington, Program Director, Rutgers University

"Rick is definitely the George Carlin of butterflies. I never laughed so much."
Lou Tiboldo, Marketing Rep, Anheuser Busch, Inc.

"I don't know who will read this, but I wanted to thank Rick Mikula. He came to L.C.D.S. and talked to us about butterflies. It was great. Thankx to him, I have three more pages in my nature journal. After he left, Mrs. DeGreen was like rating him. Everyone gave Rick Mikula a 10! He was fascinating. He told us things that I thought butterflies or moths couldn't even do! It was wonderful. I just wanted to thank him sooooo much."
Tony025@aol.com

"Dear Rick, Just wanted to get a quick note off to you and thank you for the seminar you recently held in Newark. My daughter, Cassie, and I were there, and we had a great day. We truly enjoyed the whole day, and learned a lot from your animated style of conveying information. Thanks again for all of the information. We really did not know what to expect that day, and we were just hoping it would be worthwhile. It was that and a whole lot more for us. We believe that butterflies are in our future. We have a lot to learn, but at least we have a good foundation. Thanks again."
Jack Snader

"Dear Rick, Thank you for all the information you shared with us. We used it for building our butterfly farm and rearing butterflies in Tambopata. We think that if our project is successful, more people will rear butterflies instead of doing cattle ranching and agriculture. Our butterfly farm is in the Tambopata river, in the South Eastern rain forest of Peru. Once again, thank you very much."
Best regards,
Augusto J. Mulanovich
Alfredo A. Rios
TROPICAL INSECTS S.R.L.

About my book:

I am a middle school librarian and we bought your book "Garden Butterflies of North America". The photographs are lovely and the map are a great addition. What a wonderful book! We are delighted to have it in our collection. Thank you."
Carmen Oyenque, Litchfield Middle School, Akron, Ohio

"Rick: Your book is beautiful! Thanks; your photos are amazing. I'll show it to all of the teachers in my class."
Karen Oberhauser, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota

"Your book is excellent. I think the book would have wide appeal to our membership."
Eric Metzler, The Ohio Lepidopterist Society

About our tours:

"Many thanks for setting up such a great trip! I had a FABULOUS time and am looking very much forward to going back!"
Sheri S. Moreau, Butterfly Conservancy

"I'm the one that is profusely grateful for the wonderful experience. I had a stupendious time! I can't think of any of my friends who would not have really enjoyed the wide variety of activites. It's so much fun to meet new people with a mischevious sense of adventure."
Laruel Godley

About our butterflies:

"Dear Rick, The butterflies were just gorgeous. They were released as the bride and groom were coming out of the church. They hovered around her and the crowd to the elight of everyone. It was the highlight of the ceremony and almost upstaged the bride. Thank you so much!"
Very pleased,
Lurea J. Fraczyk
"I will defintely be in touch for future events!!!"

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