In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

Butterfly and moth wings can be stunningly beautiful ... Alessandro Giusti, Curator of Lepidoptera at the Museum, says, 'Many species' eyespots have an interesting series of circles and in the middle ...

The eyes on some butterflies’ wings are designed to distract a predator. In mythology they were seen as either the ‘evil eye’ or something that was able to see our souls. Some collectors ...

For thousands of years, millions of monarch butterflies have migrated from the northern U.S. and Canada to Mexico for the winter. But exactly how they know where to go is still a mystery.