The Atlas blue butterfly is quietly turning into one of the most surprising discoveries in modern biology. It is not famous ...

Large butterfly-like insects known as Kalligrammatid lacewings, which fluttered through Eurasian fern- and cycad-filled woodland during the Mesozoic Era, have been extinct for more than 120 million ...

Metamorphosis leads to a wide range of evolutionary outcomes. The dramatic transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly ...

You can find the Schaus swallowtail butterfly on a U.S. postage stamp. But you'd have a harder time finding it in the wild. The brown-and-yellow insect, which graced a stamp in 1996 to reflect its ...

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Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For more than 130 million years, butterflies have graced our ...

Chafer, beetle, lice and other insects with sprig of buckthorn by Jan van Kessel, early 1650s, photo: Ashmolean Museum / Heritage Images / Getty Images What do we think of when we hear the word insect ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — Wendy Risk looked at the patch of dirt in her backyard that was once home to a beautiful mango tree. “It broke my heart,” the grandmother said. “When the mango went down, all my ...