Los Angeles [US], February 27 (ANI): Researchers have discovered that inedible butterfly species that replicate one other's colour patterns have developed similar flight habits to warn predators ...

A team of paleobiologists and zoologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Linyi University and Wageningen University has ...

With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research from the University of Georgia may have answered the biggest question plaguing butterfly researchers. Why are the ...

The millions of monarch butterflies that return to the property every year bend tree branches by their weight, fill the sky when they take flight, and make a sound like light rain with the beating of ...

A project aimed at developing a more ecologically sustainable approach to Dumfries and Galloway's hill farming – and help conserve the endangered northern brown argus butterfly – will soon begin.

Huertas says, 'Fast reactions and flight speeds help skippers deal with danger and avoid predators.' Female Queen Alexandra's birdwings are the biggest butterflies in the world, boasting a wingspan of ...

It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central ...

Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years. Scientists found fossilised butterfly scales the size of a speck of dust inside ...

Dramatic recent declines in the size of monarch butterfly ( Danaus plexippus ) roosts during fall migration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (43) DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...

For most butterflies, finding a mate to share their short lives with is their most important mission. To meet 'the one' among a swathe of unsuitable or unwilling partners, butterflies must adopt ...

A project aimed at developing a more ecologically sustainable approach to Dumfries and Galloway's hill farming – and help conserve the endangered northern brown argus butterfly – will soon begin. The ...