The intricate patterns on their wings are often works of art ... starting the cycle all over again. Here is a diagram of the life cycle of a butterfly: The period of completion of the life ...

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Researchers have developed a technique to replicate biological structures, such as butterfly wings, on a nano scale. They focused on the tiny nano-sized photonic structures that are found in the ...

They are a common model for studying how butterfly wing patterns evolved due to the wide variety of wings within the group. In an 1861 letter to Charles Darwin, naturalist Henry Walter Bates ...

On some butterfly wings, “tails” may be more than just elegant adornments. They’re survival tools too, a study suggests. The tails seem to attract the attention of attacking birds ...

A clever structure in the ear of a tropical butterfly that potentially makes ... are more famous for their amazing wing colouration and now turn out to have ears on their wings.

Contrary to popular belief, butterfly wings actually have living cells that help them thermoregulate. Yu et al. SHARE From the iridescent blue wings of the Eumaeus atala butterfly to the painted ...