Gleaming in the air, the iridescent blue morpho protects itself from predators using the power of light. Native to the rainforests of Mexico, Central America and South America, this bright blue ...

When our first batch of blue morpho butterflies began to emerge from their chrysalises in 2015, we were there to catch the process on film. Each individual butterfly takes only one or two minutes to ...

It migrates thousands of kilometres from Central America to Mexico. Blue Morpho Butterfly: Found in the tropical regions of Central and South America, the Blue Morpho Butterfly is renowned for its ...

A group of Osaka University researchers has developed a novel design for daylight window panes inspired by the structure of the Morpho butterfly wings that shine in a brilliant blue. The pane ...

In 2006, The Poetry Center launched its first annual Poetry Prize for High School Girls in Massachusetts (open to sophomores and juniors); since then, our contest has expanded into the other New ...

Carhartt’s Knit Cuffed Beanie is to the head what Converse’s Chuck Taylors are to your feet. The acrylic beanie dons a ...

The blue mother ... brush-footed butterfly which was named for the mineral malachite, similar in color to the bright green on the butterfly's wings. The white morpho is native to the Atlantic ...

High among the treetops—higher than I would have searched for a butterfly—there’s a flicker of blue, like a scrap ... The blumei is illegal to capture inside Bantimurung Bulusaraung National ...

After Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida in 1992, the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct: No one recorded a single sighting for years. Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up ...

The Smith's blue butterfly may be tiny, but it's endangered in a big way. It spends its whole life within a few hundred yards of two native plants, seacliff buckwheat and coast buckwheat — and is ...

Also in Seoul, six-year-old Donghu stands amid his blue toys, clothes, books, and more for a portrait shot in 2008. This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.