To stop identity thieves and counterfeiters, a group of researchers is looking for inspiration from an unlikely source: butterflies. In order to attract a mate, the male Pierella luna butterfly of ...

Every so often, unseasonably mild weather will rouse butterflies from hibernation earlier than usual in the Inland Northwest. But in January? That’s plain extraordinary.

Most anyone who lives in West Texas is familiar with the heroic journey the Monarch butterfly makes every year, as well as the beauty that species possesses. Yet there is a smaller, less colorful ...

A team of physicists that visualized the internal nanostructure of an intact butterfly wing has discovered two physical attributes that make those structures so bright and colorful. “Over millions of ...

Most anyone who lives in the great state of Texas is familiar with the heroic journey that the Monarch butterfly makes every year, as well as the beauty that species possesses. Yet there is a smaller, ...