There are more than 18,000 named butterfly species on the planet today ... Postman butterflies use the striking red bands of colour across their wings to find each other. But then they use other ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found an unusual ally in the quest to make cancer diagnosis faster, more accurate and more accessible worldwide: the Morpho butterfly. Known ...

Some butterflies have wing shapes or marks that you’ll ... confuse a pipevine swallowtail with a similarly colored ...

Its flashy red or orange wings make the Florida leafwing butterfly easy to spot in flight, but it gets its name from the tricks of camouflage that allow the brown or gray underside of its wings — ...