It will be a few months before butterflies flit through the air in Interior Alaska, but the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska Fairbanks was recently filled with them. The museum is ...

New research on the Museum's Lepidoptera collection has shed light on how some butterflies pretend to be lethal. For decades, biologists have been intrigued by the staggering diversity of wing ...

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BON SECOUR, Alabama — When the sun goes down in the piney woods, the hour approaches for Dirk Bayer to hunt. Deep in the night he rises, goes to a light behind his house, and sees what’s fluttering.