The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes time to reach this stage of its adult life. Understanding a few facts about the process lets you observe it in nature with ease ...

Yet there is a smaller, albeit less colorful, species of butterfly that also occurs here, and although it doesn’t make the epic flights like its cousin, it has its own identity.

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The butterfly is neon blue in color and its wings have black edges with white dots. It is native to Central and South American rainforests and has a life cycle that lasts about 115 days.

A material that is capable of the “reverse diffraction” of light and that is inspired by butterfly wings has been made by researchers in the US. The structure combines features of the butterfly’s ...

Yet there is a smaller, less colorful species of butterfly that also occurs here, and although it doesn’t make the epic flights like its cousin, it has its own identity.