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Butterfly wings get their color in ways that almost feel impossible. Up close, each wing is made of countless tiny scales that either hold pigment or manipulate light. The oranges, reds, and browns ...

In the United States, perhaps no bug has been counted as often as the butterfly. "There's a lot of passion for them, they're very charismatic," says Collin Edwards, a quantitative ecologist at the ...

It sounds a little unbelievable at first. A caterpillar turns into what is basically a biological soup inside a chrysalis, ...

The Mexican butterfly’s invisibility is due to small, individually arranged crystals located on the underside of its wings. The crystals provide the butterfly with its distinctive green color. The ...

DALLAS — The monarch butterfly isn't just iconic. It's also the state insect of Texas. But experts warn Texans are likely to see fewer of the insect's instantly recognizable orange and black wings ...

When a wounded monarch butterfly arrived at a Long Island wildlife center this summer, its chances of survival looked grim. One of its paper-thin orange wings had torn clean off, grounding the tiny ...

SOMETIMES WHAT YOU WOULD SAY A FLEETING MOMENT. BUT A NEW EXHIBIT AT ROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER GIVES YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACTUALLY INTERACT WITH THEM. THAT’S RIGHT. HERE. ONE MOMENT. GONE. THE ...

If his parents had had their way—and in 19th century England, parents usually did—Leonard Woods Newman would have been a London tobacco broker. Apprenticed at 18, he began his career dutifully enough.