In Part 3 of the Betty the Butterfly Crochet Series, it’s time to make her most iconic feature—the wings! This tutorial walks ...

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 ...

Delicate butterfly wings are pretty cool — literally, thanks to special structures that protect them from overheating in the sun. New thermal images of butterflies show that living parts of the ...

It’s the Baltimore checkerspot, but I call it the stained-glass-window butterfly because the underside of its wings reminds me of a stained-glass window you would find in a church. It’s a pity ...

The team recorded wing scale development from start to finish and published their findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Butterfly scales are complex microstructures ...

The authors of the new study rearranged colors on butterfly wings by deleting a single gene using a genome editing tool called CRISPR. The gene's absence had a dramatic effect in seven butterfly ...

Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs ...

To that end, scientists in China created a synthetic butterfly whose colors change as its wings flap. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, the artificial ...

Explore the soft, smooth-looking surface of a butterfly wing through an electron microscope and you'll see it's actually covered in rugged, textured scales that overlap like shingles on a roof.