Females can mimic the wings of up to five different, more poisonous butterfly species, giving them protection. The Indian leaf butterfly (Kallima paralekta) is nearly impossible to spot when it is ...

Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

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 ...

Gleaming in the air, the iridescent blue morpho protects itself from predators using the power of light. Native to the rainforests of Mexico, Central America and South America, this bright blue ...

A Yale-led study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turning their species-rich, ...

The Research wing of the Uttarakhand Forest Department has established Uttarakhand's first-ever Butterfly gallery at the ...

Butterflies possess intricate wing structures that have inspired many technological innovations. For instance, the blue ...

This curiosity eventually led him to the study of miRNAs. During graduate school, he saw an opportunity to merge his expertise in miRNA with his lifelong interest in butterflies, leading him to ...

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 ...

Sand Mountain blue butterflies live in only one place on Earth — within and near the dunes of “Singing” Sand Mountain in Nevada. But over the past three decades, extensive off-road vehicle use on ...