Whether you're curious about the type of butterfly frequenting yours ... One of the most spectacular of all North American ...

Then, in 1999 a photographer discovered just 35 specimens—all living in Bahia Honda State ... Frequently Asked Questions What is the rarest type of butterfly? The Schaus swallowtail has been ...

Butterflies are one of nature’s most beautiful creations, but the picturesque insects are facing threats that are decimating ...

Although some types of butterfly bushes are considered ... they don’t provide food for the caterpillars or larval stages of butterflies. To support all the different stages of butterflies ...

Scientists have named a new group of butterflies with dark eye-shaped patterns on their orange wings after Sauron, the omnipresent evil lord in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings novels — what ...

Next, the team used a technique known as isotope tracing that looks at the composition of the butterflies’ wings for evidence of the types of plants they ate as caterpillars, said study coauthor ...

Figure 1: Rhodopsin expression and ommatidial types in the P. xuthus retina. Figure 2: Stochastic Spineless expression in flies and butterflies. This work provides evidence that our extensive ...