The sea-foam green of a luna moth and the yellow and pink of an io moth can also be confused with butterfly wings. Here are ...

McCloskey advances on the butterfly, its body immobilised on the table with a loop of wire. One of its wings is stretched out - black inky veins running through a delicate orange membrane.

This is looking to be the second-lowest year that I have seen in my entire lifetime,” one State Parks employee said.

Here, we reconstruct the body and wing kinematics of a forwards-flying butterfly based on high-speed images. Using an in-house computational fluid dynamics solver, we simulate the unsteady flow field ...

Record numbers of heath fritillary butterflies have been counted at an Essex nature reserve, a wildlife trust says Record numbers of a butterfly ... it the highest number the trust has seen ...

A vapour sensor based on an exact replica of the butterfly-scale design will most probably be unable to selectively quantify more than ten individual vapours from their mixture. A man-made ...

Welcome to the kaleidoscopic world of the butterfly wing. How do butterflies and moths (known collectively as Lepidoptera) make use of their vibrant wing patterns? Why are some species experts in ...