Author Robert A. Heinlein called butterflies self-propelled flowers. “They’re nature’s art,” Victoria Bayless says. “Each one is a surprise.” So when the Louisiana Art & Science Museum paired ...

This is the 93-year-old Xerces blue butterfly specimen that researchers collected tissue samples from for this study. Field Museum The Xerces blue butterfly has the dubious distinction of being the ...

Almost eight decades after Colin Wyatt stole and then vandalised thousands of precious Australian butterfly specimens, scientists are still untangling his web of deception. Between 1946 and 1947, the ...

This piece originally appeared on the Conversation. Who doesn’t love butterflies? While most people won’t think twice about destroying a wasp nest on the side of the house, spraying a swarm of ants in ...