the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct: No one recorded a single sighting for years. Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up among butterfly enthusiasts when a photographer discovered ...

It is thought that the colour helps the males to mark their territories, and acts as a defence against predators. The blue morpho is often one of the species featured in Sensational Butterflies, an ...

the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct: No one recorded a single sighting for years. Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up among butterfly enthusiasts when a photographer discovered ...

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 ...

Pithecops fulgens , also known as Tsushima Uraboshi Shijimi , or the Tsushima Blue Quaker, is one of the rarest butterflies in Japan. But the population has plummeted in recent decades ...

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.

27. 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 ...

The Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House at Faust Park is back open after being closed during January for annual maintenance. The Butterfly House is as beautiful as ever, with 1,500 blue morpho ...