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Butterfly wings get their color in ways that almost feel impossible. Up close, each wing is made of countless tiny scales that either hold pigment or manipulate light. The oranges, reds, and browns ...

A selective mating experiment by a curious butterfly breeder has led scientists to a deeper understanding of how butterfly wing color is created and evolves. The study, led by scientists at University ...

If you’ve ever wondered why some animals like butterflies, birds, and beetles shimmer in the light and change from one iridescent color to the next, it’s because they don’t rely on pigments as most of ...

There are many sulphur (yellow) butterflies in southern Florida and, lucky for us, they are present all year round. The most abundant of the sulphur butterflies are the orange barred sulphur, the ...

Scientists have chosen the most fleeting of mediums for their groundbreaking work on biomimicry: They've changed the color of butterfly wings. In so doing, they produced the first structural color ...

These flowers are gorgeous for you—and a feast for monarch butterflies.

“Color in Motion” seems an appropriate name for the live butterfly exhibit that opened this week at Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory. In a 30-by-30-foot tent in the conservatory’s Showcase ...

We all know that camouflage is an important tool in the evolutionary toolbox. But it’s only one of the ways that butterflies and caterpillars use color to keep themselves safe. Image credit: First ...