Butterflies and moths are some of the most beautiful insects on Earth. They also play an important role in keeping ecosystems healthy. They are pollinators, which move pollen from one flower to ...

Western monarch butterflies spend winter gathered in California's coastal groves. Photo by Steve Corey via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Millions of monarch butterflies once covered the trees ...

Like the more than 3,000 species of butterflies in Colombia, agronomist Juan Guillermo Jaramillo underwent his own metamorphosis several years ago, as his passion for photographing nature took an ...

These wings from a Morpho butterfly are normally bright blue thanks to structural color. Because the nanosized spacing between the wings’ scales (micrograph) matches blue light’s wavelength (between ...

There are loads of butterflies around at the moment and our camera club members have sent in some great pictures. This is just a small selection of the pictures shared by members of the South Wales ...

Every year, for millions of years, a huge number of painted lady butterflies have migrated thousands of miles across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Though they’ve been a common sight throughout ...

There’s only one host plant for a monarch butterfly—milkweed! Choose native varieties for your area such as common milkweed, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed and showy milkweed. Create a monarch haven ...

THE attractive set of wall pictures published under the above title consist of ten coloured plates, reproduced from water-colour drawings by Mr. A. Thorburn. On each plate, measuring 18 inches by 14 ...

Pictures of the Adelpha corcyra and Adelpha alala butterflies pictures in Colombia’s Antioquia department – Copyright POOL/AFP/File Markus Schreiber Like the more ...