Charleston is home to monarch butterflies that spend winter on surrounding barrier islands instead of migrating to Mexico Credit: E. Weeks/SCDNR The piercing orange of butterflies fluttering along the ...

The beautiful patterns on butterfly wings are emerging as exceptional model systems that may reveal much about how the shapes, sizes and colors of specific organisms have evolved, a type of study ...

Butterfly mimics A single gene can switch the wing patterns of butterflies so they mimic toxic species and avoid predation, new research has found. The findings are unprecedented, says co-author, ...

Butterfly wings have been given make-overs by scientists who tweaked a “painting gene” to change their patterns and colours. The research has major implications for understanding how the so-called ...

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 ...

A bumper crop of spikey black caterpillars have appeared on the nation's nettles this summer. Clad in velvet coats peppered with white dots, the creatures have been sunning themselves and munching ...