For centuries, researchers have thought that butterflies with eye-like patterns on their wings mimic the menacing gaze of predators in order to scare away insect-eaters. However, this idea has been ...

Spring has officially arrived, and with it comes one of San Diego’s most anticipated seasonal experiences — the Butterfly ...

Puerto Vallarta isn't all beaches, malecón and margaritas. There's a butterfly sanctuary nearby that's worth visiting, too.

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with impressionable minds and big aspirations. Willmott initially imagined ...

Lepidopterans (butterflies and moths) exhibit a splendid diversity of wing colour patterns, and many species display black and white, or dark and bright, wing colour pattern variants associated with ...

Butterfly mimics A single gene can switch the wing patterns of butterflies so they mimic toxic species and avoid predation, new research has found. The findings are unprecedented, says co-author, ...