Butterflies and moths are masters of disguise, able to copy animal faces, rolled-up leaves and even snakes. Welcome to the kaleidoscopic world of the butterfly wing. How do butterflies and moths ...

But their conspicuousness suggests their effectiveness - the trait would unlikely have evolved so widely if it was to the detriment of the insect. Not all butterflies and moths are thought to use ...

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 ...

Archival pigment print on dibond with ArtSek in black floating frame Picture shot in Michoacán, Mexico in 2007. About the series "Animal Masses" Why do animals collect in masses? This question is at ...

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 ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Monarch butterflies are gorgeous orange and black insects that make ...

An autumn joy is spying Red Admiral or Painted Lady butterflies flitting around and stopping to sip a Sedum’s generous offerings of nectar. But this has been a rare delight recently. Our foul ...

However, only one thing was missing — the butterflies. “That’s the problem, right?” said Michelle Chao, environmental program supervisor for the city of Norman. “So, we try to bring ...