Its flashy red or orange wings make the Florida leafwing butterfly easy to spot in flight ... wings — which show when it's at rest — to make it look a bit like a dead leaf, effective camouflage in its ...

After folding the leaf in half, they used a detailing knife to carve out an outline of a butterfly and then added details to create a pattern over its wings. It looked attractive once they ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in ...

Females can mimic the wings of up to five different, more poisonous butterfly species, giving them protection. The Indian leaf butterfly (Kallima paralekta) is nearly impossible to spot when it is ...

She flits from leaf to leaf and uses special glands ... Next the chrysalis opens, and the butterfly crawls out headfirst. The wings are limp and its body is plump. It rests for a moment, then ...