A queen butterfly’s underwings resemble a monarch’s, with white outlines on black hindwing veins and dark borders featuring white dots. Orange forewings have white specks. To differentiate between a ...

About 70 per cent of the species on Earth are insects. They are fundamental components of most ecosystems: they comprise half of the biomass on the planet, pollinate flowers, decompose dead organic ...

Butterfly fossils are rare, and finds that preserve fine anatomical details and wing patterns are an absolute exception. An international research team from Sweden, the U.S., and Germany, led by Dr.

After years of fighting against it — including an act of Congress that temporarily spared it — a beloved butterfly sanctuary along the Rio Grande in deep South Texas will soon be bisected by a border ...

A rare boost in monarch butterfly numbers could mean a bigger migration through Texas this spring. Scientists recently announced that monarchs occupied 2.93 hectares (7.24 acres) of forest in central ...

ATLANTA — Two NCAA records fell on the second night of the men's NCAA swimming and diving championships. First it was Florida's Josh Liendo, who cemented himself as the NCAA butterfly king. Then it ...

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — Each year, a section of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, known as the Hidden Jungle, transforms into a tropical haven filled with hundreds of butterflies fluttering freely among ...