At the live butterfly exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History now in its 13th year visitors can get face-to-face with the 500 fluttering tropical butterflies living inside. The Jagged ...

The Alcon blue butterfly has found a way to get ants to raise its offspring, researchers in Denmark report. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

Insect Warning Colors Aid Cancer And Tropical Disease Drug Discovery Date: July 12, 2008 Source: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Summary: Brightly colored beetles or butterfly larvae ...

The Florida Entomologist Vol. 89, No. 1, Mar., 2006 Miami Blue Butterfly Larvae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and Ants (Hymeoptera: Formicidae): New Information on the Symbionts of ... CALHOUN, J. V., J.

FEEDING: Larval food plants for the Miami blue butterfly include the gray and yellow nickerbean and other members of the pea family, such as acacia and balloon vine. THREATS: Miami blues are ...

Puzzled, his team wondered whether a mysterious ticking sound emitted by blue butterfly larvae and pupae could explain this privileged treatment. The ants produce a song of their own, with subtle ...

Finally, some good news! Conservationists have successfully reintroduced previously extinct large blue butterflies to the UK, with the creatures populating parts of the country for the first time ...

Inside this shell, the larva changes into a butterfly. After about a week, the adult emerges from this shell with its wings intact, although they are crumpled into small balls on the sides of the ...