If you want to draw in pollinators year after year in the spring, consider planting these colorful flowers and creating your ...

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 ...

Monarch butterflies are nearing Michigan after a migration from Mexico. When to expect them this spring.

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 ...

To stop identity thieves and counterfeiters, a group of researchers is looking for inspiration from an unlikely source: butterflies. In order to attract a mate, the male Pierella luna butterfly of ...

The human eye is powerfully attracted to bright colors. When you look at a yard, the first thing you will be the colorful flowerbeds. Our eyes are also drawn to motion. When everything else is still, ...

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 ...

My wife and I have been overanxious for the arrival of spring. When our naturalist friend Bob Behrstock called to say he had seen a falcate orangetip butterfly in the Big Creek Scenic Area, we took ...

There is nothing quite like the wing of a moth or butterfly. They are different from other insect wings. A butterfly’s wing is like a jet and a paper airplane mashed together, then covered with tiny ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Engineered mutant butterflies give a glimpse deep into the genetic roots of wing patterns, an international team reported Monday in the Proceedings of the ...