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 ...

A globe-trotting butterfly enthusiast is staging an exhibition in Tokyo that matches the work of pioneering artist-entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian with real-life specimens from the Suriname jungle.

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 ...

Research co-authored by CU Boulder PhD graduate Megan E. Zabinski and evolutionary biology Professor M. Deane Bowers reveals how museum butterfly specimens, some almost a century old, can still offer ...

Guan Fuyun arranges a butterfly specimen at the exhibition hall of his butterfly garden in Jimsar County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Automnomous Region, May 15, 2020. After nine years, Guan ...

SYDNEY: 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 ...

Andrew Warren works for the Florida Museum of Natural History. He has received funding from NSF for research on Lepidoptera systematics. He is a member of and past President of The Lepidopterists' ...