The owl butterfly may be beautiful, but looks can be deceptive: in reality the species is something of a hooligan. The juice guzzler loves nothing more than a day feeding on fermented fruit and ...

Swallowtails are large butterflies, so naturally their caterpillars, or larvae, grow to be pretty good-sized. Many have beautiful or strange color patterns. The giant swallowtail caterpillar has a ...

Some collectors shot large butterflies out of the sky with shotguns filled with mustard seed. The unusual ammunition was used to limit the damage caused to the specimens. The Natural History ...

The large blue butterfly has a strange life. After munching on wild thyme flowers for a few days, it drops to the ground and persuades a particular species of red ant to carry it into a nest.

Near the entrance to a cave in Thailand, a “slender” creature with “butterfly-shaped blotches” perched on a rock. Its “large,” gray eyes scanned the surrounding landscape — but it ...

The large butterfly, a member of the swallowtail family, has a wingspan of about 12 centimeters, and the male has black wings. It mainly inhabits southern Japan, including Okinawa Prefecture and ...

DESCRIPTION: The monarch is a large orange butterfly that flies with its wings held in a “v” shape. The wings have prominent dark veins and two rows of white spots at the edges, and the body is dark.