What Does a Hackberry Emperor Look Like? What type of butterfly is this? asks reader Andrea Rickard of Helena, Ohio. Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman say, “This is a good view of the intricate pattern on ...

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 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 ...

Ed and Krissy Haas are the new owners of Yellow Butterfly Winery. The couple moved to the area from Alliance four years ago. They and their family will be involved with the operations of the ...

Photos show a male and female Copernicus dartwhite butterfly. Seen from the top, the butterfly has a zigzag black pattern along most of its wings. The top edge has thick black bands with yellow ...

A fractal butterfly pattern produced by an unusual configuration of magnetic fields, first predicted almost 50 years ago, has been seen in detail for the first time in a twisted piece of graphene.

A quantum version of a fractal pattern, known as "Hofstadter's butterfly," which has long been predicted, but the new study marks the first time it has been directly observed experimentally in a ...

Yellow Coster (Acraea issoria) is a small radiant butterfly with ochre yellowish coloured wings belonging to Nymphalidae family. It has elongated forewings which are slightly translucent and curvy ...

The genes that make a fruit fly's eyes red also produce red wing patterns in the Heliconius butterfly found in South and Central America, finds entomologists.