Butterflies bring life and color to any garden, acting as pollinators while also enhancing the visual appeal of your outdoor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Numata longwing butterfly resting on a leaf, Heliconius numata, This unpalatable tropical butterfly co-mimics other unpalatable tiger-pattern butterflies in the genus Melinaea, Butterfly farm, La ...

The spectacular variety of colours and patterns that butterflies use to ward off potential predators may result from highly localised environmental conditions known as "microhabitats", researchers ...

An international research team working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama knocked out a single control gene in the DNA of seven different butterfly species. In the Sept. 18 ...

The Diadem (bottom butterfly of each pair) tastes good to birds and therefore mimics the African Queen (top butterfly of each pair) which is distasteful as it feeds on milkweeds. As the African Queen ...