According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, their wings have a dark gray-brown color at the top, and their hindwings have a dark spot and an irregular dark line. The scarce butterfly can be ...

You may also see a burnished brown comma, the only butterfly with jagged-edged wings; individuals can pop up in any season.

“I still remember when I walked into the insectary and I saw B. anynana butterflies emerging from their pupa, and I saw the [pure homozygous mutant] phenotype—the whole light brown butterfly—which was ...

The meadow brown butterfly’s Latin name is Maniola or ‘little spirit from hell’. It has been represented as a demon in art. The Greek word psyche means both spirit and butterfly. The Greeks ...

The Puerto Rican harlequin butterfly (Atlantea tulita) is a small, dark-brown butterfly with black and deep-orange markings. The butterfly uses the prickly bush (Oplonia spinosa) as a host plant for ...

New research shows butterfly populations have fallen dramatically over the past two decades, but there’s a lot you can do to help these fluttering flower-lovers, even if all you’ve got is a ...

And March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, the perfect day to bask in the sunlight and plant flowers that will help pollinators like the endangered eastern monarch butterfly. The sun is out ...

A year-round resident of New Mexico's high mountain meadows, the highly imperiled Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly relies wholly on the integrity of its remarkably limited range. This ...

Prudic and her collaborator found that the dramatic eyespots on the wings of Bicyclus anynana individuals in the wet season were more effective at fooling mantid insects, the butterflies’ main ...