Is there anything more enchanting than a beautiful butterfly? Their majestic presence, brilliant colors, and bold, patterned bodies—some striped or even polka-dotted—are truly mesmerizing. With ...

A beautiful butterfly is able to fool ants into rearing its young by masking them with the ants’ own smell, say researchers. Caterpillars of the alcon blue butterfly have developed an outer coat ...

The infrared photo from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captures a “nursery for hundreds of baby stars”. At first, it seems like a cosmic red butterfly, ...