One toxic butterfly species may mimic the wing pattern of another toxic species in the area. By using the same signal, they send a stronger message: DON'T EAT US! Now several research teams have ...

Mars has a new showpiece for planetary scientists, and it looks uncannily like a butterfly frozen mid-flight. A fresh set of images from a long-running European orbiter reveals an impact scar whose ...

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. The genes that make a fruit fly’s eyes ...

Native to the Philippines, the Scarlet Mormon is known for its rich red patches that stand out sharply against its black wings. Males show brighter colours, while females mimic toxic species to avoid ...

Butterfly wings show a spectacular diversity of patterns of colours and shapes both within and among species. Butterfly wing patterns are ideal systems for an integrated study of the reciprocal ...

Butterfly wing patterns have a basic plan to them, which is manipulated by non-coding regulatory DNA to create the diversity of wings seen in different species, according to new research. The study, ...

Researchers use genome editing to explore how certain genes influence butterfly wing colors and patterns. Gene association, mapping, and expression studies have helped link the optix gene to pattern ...

New research on butterfly genomes has revealed that the genetic components that produce different splotches of colour on wings can be mixed up between species by interbreeding to create new patterns, ...

New Delhi: Butterfly lovers and lepidopterists, working around Delhi’s Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary, have been in a fix for the last couple of weeks after a number of anomalies were detected in the ...

If you see a small striking red, white and black butterfly flitting around the plants in your garden, then you are looking at the Red Pierrot also known as Talicada nyseu, which belongs to the ...