Butterfly wing patterns altered with CRISPR offer insights into evolution of biodiversity By Rich Haridy. September 18, 2017 ... "It's laying the background to be filled in later.

Black swallowtail adults are sexually dimorphic, meaning that they have different color patterns--their ventral wing surfaces and their bodies are the same but their dorsal patterns differ. Thorax and ...

The paper kite butterfly, native to Asia, is light yellow or off-white with an elaborate pattern of swooping black lines and dots.But its chrysalis—a hard case that protects the caterpillar ...

There are more than 18,000 named butterfly species on the planet today, and about 140,000 different moth species. All of them evolved from a common ancestor that lived more than 225 million years ago.

Animals often evolve to have certain characteristics that help them escape predators more effectively. Some of these ...

A new study helps bring the incredible color and pattern variation in butterflies into focus. The results align with a growing body of evidence that suggests butterfly-wing diversity really boils ...

Tian compared mir-193 and ivory mutants and found similar phenotypic patterns in the butterflies, suggesting these genes play similar roles and that mir-193 is derived from ivory. This observation led ...

Butterflies (Papilionoidea) come in a remarkable variety of colors and patterns, from the orange-colored majesty of the monarch to the lustrous red and blue patterns of the peacock butterfly, but all ...

Monarch butterfly color patterns vary based on the length of an individual's migration. ... Monarch butterflies in Eastern North America complete one of the longest animal migrations.

Monarch butterflies' migration patterns are changing. Scientists want you to help Researchers in the South want people to report Monarch butterfly sightings this winter as more butterflies seem to ...

As millions of monarch butterflies make their way down the east coast to Mexico for the winter, butterfly scientists want people in their flight path to report monarch sightings. Doing so can help ...