Despite the name, the common buckeye is anything but ordinary. The eyespots make this brown butterfly a real attention-getter ...

Here is the list of most breathtaking and beautiful butterfly species in the world. The black swallowtail, also known as the eastern black swallowtail or American swallowtail, has black wings ...

The blue morpho is often one of the species featured in Sensational Butterflies, an exhibition of live insects in the Museum’s tropical butterfly house. Butterfly expert Luke Brown says the species is ...

The Smith's blue butterfly may be tiny, but it's endangered in a big way. It spends its whole life within a few hundred yards of two native plants, seacliff buckwheat and coast buckwheat — and is ...

Famous for the striking 'eyes' gazing from its wings, this large butterfly can be spotted a mile off. Native to the forests of central and South America, the banana-loving species wears a disguise to ...