Attracting butterflies to your yard and garden is a great goal—these pretty pollinators not only look lovely, but help provide some support to bees and hummingbirds in pollinating your plants. Here, ...

Some plants and animals living in the coolest edges of their habitat are thought to benefit from a bit of extra heat courtesy of climate change, at least in the short term. That was widely assumed to ...

The human eye has three different types of cone cells, known as photoreceptors, that allow us to see millions of different colors. Animals have varying numbers of these receptors, which allows some ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I went out on the porch with coffee in hand early Thursday morning, it was apparent that overnight we had had heavy rain. Several plants were bent over, especially the tall common milkweeds and ...

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 ...

So you want to build a butterfly garden. And I’m sure you’ve scoured the internet to figure out the best way to do so, and maybe they’ve given you some ideas. Or maybe it was information overload and ...

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 ...

Butterfly wing patterns have a basic plan to them, which is manipulated by non-coding regulatory DNA to create the diversity of wings seen in different species, according to new research. Butterfly ...

ST. LOUIS — September is here and that means monarch butterflies begin their remarkable migration through Missouri, heading towards their winter homes in Mexico. This year, the peak in monarch numbers ...

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 ...