“Color in Motion” seems an appropriate name for the live butterfly exhibit that opened this week at Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory. In a 30-by-30-foot tent in the conservatory’s Showcase ...

The flashes of orange, white and black looked a bit like leaves scattering in the wind. Then Kent Yamaguchi took a closer look. “It was just an inordinate amount of painted lady butterflies,” said ...

Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs complete ...

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Thanks to the engineers at Australia’s National University (ANU), the idea of flying butterflies powering the future was brought to the fore. Based on the wings of the Blue Morpho Didius butterfly, ...

Adriana Briscoe has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. I am fascinated by the sensory world of animals, which is both ...

Pete Vukusic, a scientist at the Exeter University in the UK, would be amused to learn that among the seven butterflies Indian citizens have shortlisted as probable candidates for the national ...