With its charismatic appearance and awe-inspiring migrations, it's not surprising that the monarch butterfly motivates ...

As for how we humans perceive those brilliant butterfly colors, it depends. Some color we see is the insect's true pigment, and some is structural, or the way light reflects off a surface.

Unlike their relatives with larger wings and darker colors, lighter, smaller butterflies have trouble regulating body temperatures when the air temperature increases, a new study found.

First, they measured the proportions of colors on 400 pairs of wings from preserved milkweed butterflies, including Eastern monarchs at different stages of their life cycle.

“Color in Motion” seems an appropriate name for the live butterfly exhibit that opened this week at Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory. In a 30-by-30-foot tent in the conservatory’s ...

Between mir-193 and mir-2788, Tian found that homozygous mir-193 butterflies exhibited lighter wing colors, indicating that mir-193 is the key dark color regulator across these Lepidoptera. “I still ...

Typically, adult butterflies are attracted to bright colors such as red, yellow, orange, pink and purple blossoms. This is because these bright flowers are the ones that produce the most nectar.