Attract the elegant zebra swallowtail butterfly to your yard by growing nectar plants. Also discover the host plant for the ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Yale researchers were able to create a global map of butterfly diversity “hot-spots.” These ...

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back ...

In a forested region of Angola where a cliff separates the landscape, a new species of butterfly ... and white on the underside of their wings and covered in “metallic green” scales on the outside of ...

DESCRIPTION: The Bay checkerspot is a medium-sized butterfly with a wingspan of a little more than two inches. The top surfaces of its wings have black bands along all the veins that sharply contrast ...

leading him to explore the largely understudied role of miRNAs in shaping butterfly and moth wing coloration. “I thought these miRNAs would be minor regulators of gene expression—maybe they would ...

The Eastern Knapweed Fritillary (Melitaea ornata) is a butterfly with an intricate checkerboard pattern of orange, black, and white on its wings. It is native to Israel, parts of the Middle East ...

It is also designated as the state butterfly of Oklahoma. The males display more vibrant colors with a predominantly black upper side of wings with a row of large yellow spots before a row of ...