One Japanese grade-school student wanted to know if his hand-raised butterflies remembered him. The results were astounding.

What if there were a great ape species that could live over 1,000 years? That’s basically Heliconius in the butterfly world.

Most butterflies survive just a few weeks on the wing, burning through life at full speed before vanishing. But a group of tropical species has quietly broken that rule, and the secret involves an ...

Pollinators are small creatures with a big impact. In fact, they are responsible for about one of every three bites of food ...

Heliconius charithonia is one of the species of butterflies whose wing patterns scientists scrutinized to better understand the evolutionary process. This butterfly is wild-type; the genetically ...

The Deschutes Land Trust announced today that it is hosting a Monarch Butterfly Naming Contest in July. Kids ages 5-17 can ...

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If you go down to the woods today, an unfamiliar beauty may be watching you from a tree’s sun-kissed bark. You may clap eyes ...