With over 100,000 species in the superfamily Papilionoidea, butterflies are found on every continent except Antarctica. They are incredibly adaptable insects and live in various habitats, from ...

The U.S. government ordered the destruction a $15,000 shipment of pineapples from Costa Rica after agriculture inspectors in Mississippi found butterfly larvae that they said could be harmful. U.S ...

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 ...

Butterflies are the essence of cool in the insect world, a favorite muse for poets and songwriters, who hold them up as symbols of love, beauty, transformation and good fortune.

Researchers in Denmark report that the large blue butterfly has managed to produce larvae with a chemical coating similar to that of the local Myrmica rubra ants.

The caterpillar of the blue butterfly is "adopted" by the red ant which takes the butterfly larva back to its nest where it treats it like one of its own brood feeding it until it is old enough to ...

Historical, anecdotal records of the state-endangered Miami blue butterfly, Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri (Comstock & Huntington) (Lepidoptera), have mentioned larval associations with the Florida ...

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 ...

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 ...

Upon hatching, the larvae burrowed into the balloon and fed inside until maturity. FEEDING: Larval food plants for the Miami blue butterfly include the gray and yellow nickerbean and other members of ...

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 ...