Heliconius charithonia is one of the species of butterflies whose wing patterns scientists scrutinized to better understand the evolutionary process. This butterfly is wild-type; the genetically ...

Bright black-and-red butterflies that flit across the sunlit edges of Amazonian rain forests are natural hedonists, and it does them good, according to new genetic data. Bright black-and-red ...

The butterflies are mostly flying over the capital especially southern parts, Mahmoud Mirlouhi told Fars news agency on Saturday. Their population increased due to the recent unprecedented rainfall, ...

Engineered mutant butterflies give a glimpse deep into the genetic roots of wing patterns, an international team reported Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The authors of ...

The zoo is now home to hundreds of butterflies from 30 different species of Neotropical butterflies. The zoo is now home to hundreds of butterflies from 30 different species of Neotropical butterflies ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) – Painted Lady butterflies are fluttering through western Nevada in what biologists believe to be the largest local migration of the colorful insect in close to a decade. ”This is ...

Moths and butterflies collectively belong to a big taxonomic group called Lepidoptera. That name means “scale-wing”, referring to the tiny scales that cover the wings of most of these species. The ...

I went to Block Creek Natural Area in the Hill Country to study birds, but I wound up being pleasantly distracted by a multitude of butterflies. The fields were blanketed with wildflowers - nodding ...