Some plants and animals living in the coolest edges of their habitat are thought to benefit from a bit of extra heat courtesy of climate change, at least in the short term. That was widely assumed to ...

An international team of scientists working with Heliconius butterflies in Panama was faced with a mystery: how do pairs of unrelated butterflies from Peru to Costa Rica evolve nearly the same ...

The human eye has three different types of cone cells, known as photoreceptors, that allow us to see millions of different colors. Animals have varying numbers of these receptors, which allows some ...

You won't see butterflies flitting around your winter garden. Once warm weather is over, where do butterflies go for winter?

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Blooms and Butterflies Exhibit, a popular draw at the Frankin Park Conservatory, is back open. Inside the Pacific Island Water Garden biome, visitors can see hundreds of ...

When I went out on the porch with coffee in hand early Thursday morning, it was apparent that overnight we had had heavy rain. Several plants were bent over, especially the tall common milkweeds and ...

An international research team working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama knocked out a single control gene in the DNA of seven different butterfly species. In the Sept. 18 ...

Researchers have discovered significant variations in the ability of different UK butterfly species to maintain a suitable body temperature. Species that rely most on finding a suitably shady location ...

ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — Two-year-old Malia Wade came dressed for the occasion and with a clear goal in mind as she visited the San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Thursday. “She’s waiting for a blue morpho to ...

Butterflies have long been believed to represent transformation and change, thanks to the stunning metamorphosis they must go through to go from caterpillar to the winged pollinator so many of us ...