Conservation funding follows public admiration, and public admiration follows beauty. So what happens to the butterflies ...

The Raigad district in Maharashtra is home to 147 butterfly species, including the state butterfly, the Blue Mormon. Experts ...

High in the Swiss Alps, butterflies are racing uphill faster than almost anything else on the mountain. A new survey of the ...

UC San Diego biologists have identified the genetic switch that added a ninth photoreceptor to butterfly eyes, revealing how ...

Looking for a challenge, a woman sets out to chronicle 64 species of lepidoptera in her country over a single year. The search becomes a meditation.

A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the evolutionary tree and highlighting six new species. The team includes ...