Butterflies are winged insects belonging to the insect order Lepidoptera. Here are 7 of the most beautiful butterflies from across the world. Red Tip Butterfly: Found in parts of Africa, the ...

Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years. Scientists found fossilised butterfly scales the size of a speck of dust inside ...

Hatchlings are killed young, to preserve their wings. The trade in rare butterflies—both legal and illegal—spans the planet, from catchers to middlemen to collectors. A catcher on Bacan island ...

On the slopes of a volcano in central Mexico, biologist Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero and his team envision a climate refuge for oyamel fir trees and the monarch butterflies that depend on them.

Not all butterflies and moths are thought to use their eyespots in the same way. There are two main theories for how they function as anti-predator defences. The first is that they evolved for ...

As temperatures drop in the north and summer nights give way to cool autumn mornings, millions of monarch butterflies will begin a pilgrimage of up to 3,000 miles towards southern latitudes.

Each autumn, a new generation of monarch butterflies is born in the northern United States and southern Canada. Hundreds of millions of these butterflies then fly to the mountains of Central ...

offering free milkweed seeds to anyone who wanted to plant them before the winter of 2021. Milkweed is vital to monarch butterflies as it is the only plant upon which monarch caterpillars can live ...

The overexploitation of 25 species of host plants valued for their medicinal properties threatens the swallowtail butterflies in the forest habitats of a part of Assam often referred to as the ...

The process of how caterpillars change into butterflies. Caterpillars grow, feed and then transform from a chrysalis to a beautiful colourful butterfly before our very eyes. This clip is from the ...

An experiment to grow new forests in central Mexico offers hope that the crucial winter habitat for millions of migrating monarch butterflies could survive into the next century. While moving a ...

Researchers in central Mexico have planted a forest of firs. Now they’re hoping the imperiled Eastern monarch butterflies will come. This population of monarchs, which migrates up to 4,500 ...