Butterflies show several types of movement. They can seasonally migrate long distances over hundreds of kilometers. Alternatively, butterflies also disperse over relatively short distances for feeding ...

An international team of scientists working with Heliconius butterflies in Panama was faced with a mystery: how do pairs of unrelated butterflies from Peru to Costa Rica evolve nearly the same ...

Researchers have discovered significant variations in the ability of different UK butterfly species to maintain a suitable body temperature. Species that rely most on finding a suitably shady location ...

The British swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon britannicus) is the U.K.'s only native swallowtail and its largest native ...

After assessing the genomes of twenty species of butterflies, scientists were surprised to find that genes flow easily between them, even species that aren’t closely related. The work, which was ...

Entomologist Floyd Shockley drove across the country to pick up a premier butterfly and moth collection Jack Tamisiea The new acquisition contains butterflies and moths from around the world and ...

I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

Butterflies have long been believed to represent transformation and change, thanks to the stunning metamorphosis they must go through to go from caterpillar to the winged pollinator so many of us ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and the City College of New York has identified a unique, genetic “mimicry switch” that determines whether or not male and female Elymnias ...

Thursday is Earth Day, and if you want to mark the day by doing some planting, Anita Camacho, CEO of Little Red Wagon Native Nursery in Tampa, has a suggestion. "Native plants are important for our ...

Butterflies show several different types of movement. They can seasonally migrate long distances over hundreds of kilometres. Alternatively, butterflies also disperse over relatively short distances ...