Butterflies are beautiful creatures that typically have magnificent coloring and are associated with sunshine, flowers, transformation, hope, and freedom. They play important roles in the ecosystem as ...

Willow Neal receives funding from Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA). The Butterfly Conservation charity’s big butterfly count asks the UK public to record butterflies wherever they see ...

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Butterflies are some of the world’s most distinctive insects – but it can be surprisingly hard to tell them apart. Some species copy each other’s appearance, while others haven’t been seen alive in ...

Nine new butterfly species have been discovered hiding in 'plain sight' among the some 80,000 drawers that make up the lepidoptera collection of the Natural History Musuem, London. A study describing ...