Think quick and name a type of butterfly. Monarch, swallowtail, painted lady, blue and hairstreak probably come to mind. Now ...

Get ready to step into a world that will leave you flutterly amazed! The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park announced ...

After Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida in 1992, the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct ... wild population of Miami blues — but from which all known butterflies once ...

The blue morpho is often one of the species featured in Sensational Butterflies, an exhibition of live insects in the Museum’s tropical butterfly house. Butterfly expert Luke Brown says the species is ...

Butterflies are bright ... thorax (the scientific term for middle part of the body of an insect) has thin blue lines. The Habrosyne has a pattern like a Native American rug.

As a second line of defence, butterflies will flash their showy upper side patterns, which buys them the few vital seconds they need to escape. For example, the owl butterfly has contrasting blue and ...

All Ogasawara blue butterflies bred outside the islands were thought to have died out in August or before due to a decline in reproduction ability caused by inbreeding. Specimens measured about ...

After Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida in 1992, the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct ... wild population of Miami blues — but from which all known butterflies once ...