Charleston is home to monarch butterflies that spend winter on surrounding barrier islands instead of migrating to Mexico Credit: E. Weeks/SCDNR The piercing orange of butterflies fluttering along the ...

Millions of monarch butterflies are making their way down the east coast to Mexico for the winter. Huh, wonder if they're looking for BJ Leiderman, who writes our theme music. But as Georgia Public ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and the City College of New York has identified a unique, genetic “mimicry switch” that determines whether or not male and female Elymnias ...

Many butterflies develop wing patterns that mimic other species to protect themselves from predators. While growing complex body parts like wings involves many genes, the difference between two ...

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 colors and patterns of black swallowtails reveal the diversity of evolutionary dynamics acting on the sexes and the various life-history stages Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally ...