Right now, students from around Greenville County are painting thousands of bright ceramic butterflies and learning about a very dark time in history. They are taking part in The Butterfly Project, ...

If you’re tempted to try it yourself, start with broad, sturdy leaves for clearer prints, and don’t be afraid to experiment ...

Jane Kim can tell you where every vein is on the colorful wings of a female monarch butterfly, and knows the exact proportions of each segment of the creature's delicate legs. But until the fall of ...

The vivid blue color of morpho butterflies doesn’t come from pigment but from tiny nanostructures on their wings that bend and reflect light. In a recent study, scientists designed a thin film with a ...

A painted lady butterfly lands on Morag Stewart's wildflowers in her All Saints Community Garden, Monday, May 20, 2019, at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Spruce Street in Spokane, Wash.

New research on butterfly genomes has revealed that the genetic components that produce different splotches of colour on wings can be mixed up between species by interbreeding to create new patterns, ...

Butterflies take flight as researchers create the world's lightest paint! University of Central Florida researcher Debashis Chanda has developed the world's lightest paint, inspired by butterflies.

A Washington State University butterfly expert described painted ladies as a “cosmopolitan” butterfly because they can be found on every continent aside from Antarctica. The ladies are coming to town, ...

Chris Packham is urging people to take part in the world's largest insect citizen science survey. This butterfly undertakes an extraordinary 7,500-mile round trip from tropical Africa to the Arctic ...

Jane Kim can tell you where every vein is on the colorful wings of a female monarch butterfly, and knows the exact proportions of each segment of the creature's delicate legs. Stream Los Angeles News ...