Some plants and animals living in the coolest edges of their habitat are thought to benefit from a bit of extra heat courtesy of climate change, at least in the short term. That was widely assumed to ...

An international team of scientists working with Heliconius butterflies in Panama was faced with a mystery: how do pairs of unrelated butterflies from Peru to Costa Rica evolve nearly the same ...

The human eye has three different types of cone cells, known as photoreceptors, that allow us to see millions of different colors. Animals have varying numbers of these receptors, which allows some ...

An international team of scientists have identified nine new species of butterflies using a combination of geographical, morphological and molecular analysis.

An international research team working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama knocked out a single control gene in the DNA of seven different butterfly species. In the Sept. 18 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Blooms and Butterflies Exhibit, a popular draw at the Frankin Park Conservatory, is back open. Inside the Pacific Island Water Garden biome, visitors can see hundreds of ...

Attracting butterflies to your yard and garden is a great goal—these pretty pollinators not only look lovely, but help provide some support to bees and hummingbirds in pollinating your plants. Here, ...

After assessing the genomes of twenty species of butterflies, scientists were surprised to find that genes flow easily between them, even species that aren’t closely related. The work, which was ...

ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — Two-year-old Malia Wade came dressed for the occasion and with a clear goal in mind as she visited the San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Thursday. “She’s waiting for a blue morpho to ...

Butterflies have long been believed to represent transformation and change, thanks to the stunning metamorphosis they must go through to go from caterpillar to the winged pollinator so many of us ...

Next to one of the world’s busiest airports, thousands of solo flights tend to take place each summer, hidden in plain sight. That’s because Los Angeles World Airports, which governs LAX, handles more ...

In many ways, it’s a typical festival with music, food and crafts. But this festival has something a bit different – butterflies. Of course at the Butterfly Festival, that would be a rather important ...