Some insects are downright scary when you get a close look at them, but that's not the case when you look at butterfly wings ...

During graduate school, he saw an opportunity to merge his expertise in miRNA with his lifelong interest in butterflies, leading him to explore the largely understudied role of miRNAs in shaping ...

The researchers added the “curious” to the butterfly’s common name because of its uniquely “small population size and high ...

Our research into butterfly wings was inspired by the review article written by Vukusic and Sambles in Nature in 2003, where the authors described the nanometre-scale photonic structures in the ...

The butterfly exhibit at Brookside Gardens has returned after spending 5 years in hiatus. The Butterfly Experience, ...

Under a sky painted in soft gray, the air a cool 60-degres, families and friends gathered quietly Saturday morning for a ...

From it he withdraws a triangular piece of wax paper, and from that he tenderly removes a specimen of the butterfly he hopes to find. Papilio blumei. Its wings look like black velvet, each with a ...

Think of it as the “butterfly effect” — the idea that something as small as the flapping of a butterfly’s wings can eventually lead to a major event such as a hurricane — in reverse. The new study, ...

Think of it as the "butterfly effect" -- the idea that something as small as the flapping of a butterfly's wings can eventually lead to a major event such as a hurricane -- in reverse. The new ...