For centuries, researchers have thought that butterflies with eye-like patterns on their wings mimic the menacing gaze of predators in order to scare away insect-eaters. However, this idea has been ...

Puerto Vallarta isn't all beaches, malecón and margaritas. There's a butterfly sanctuary nearby that's worth visiting, too.

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with impressionable minds and big aspirations. Willmott initially imagined ...

Lepidopterans (butterflies and moths) exhibit a splendid diversity of wing colour patterns, and many species display black and white, or dark and bright, wing colour pattern variants associated with ...

Spring has officially arrived, and with it comes one of San Diego’s most anticipated seasonal experiences — the Butterfly ...

Butterfly mimics A single gene can switch the wing patterns of butterflies so they mimic toxic species and avoid predation, new research has found. The findings are unprecedented, says co-author, ...