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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Blooms and Butterflies Exhibit, a popular draw at the Frankin Park Conservatory, is back open. Inside the Pacific Island Water Garden biome, visitors can see hundreds of ...

ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — Two-year-old Malia Wade came dressed for the occasion and with a clear goal in mind as she visited the San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Thursday. “She’s waiting for a blue morpho to ...

After assessing the genomes of twenty species of butterflies, scientists were surprised to find that genes flow easily between them, even species that aren’t closely related. The work, which was ...

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 ...

I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...