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 ...

Butterflies take different paths to arrive at same color pattern Date: November 14, 2019 Source: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Summary: An international team of scientists working with ...

Photo by Jeff Mitton. Black swallowtail adults are sexually dimorphic, meaning that they have different color patterns--their ventral wing surfaces and their bodies are the same but their dorsal ...

A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the ...

A monarch butterfly takes a flight break to feast on a blooming stalk of milkweed in Baton Rouge. Numbers of monarchs have plummeted in the last few decades by as much as 90 percent.

A version of this article appears in print on , Section D, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Butterfly Vision: Seeing Colors That Others Can Only Imagine.

Good Night, Sweet Butterflies: A Color Dreamland [With 9 Plastic Butterflies] Dawn Bentley. Little Simon, $10.95 (24pp) ISBN 978-0-689-85684-6 ...

Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally, and they combine yellow, black, orange, blue and red in several diverse patterns that invariably catch the eye.