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 ...

Butterflies are winged insects belonging to the insect order Lepidoptera. Here are 7 of the most beautiful butterflies from across the world. Red Tip Butterfly: Found in parts of Africa, the ...

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 ...

John Watts is the director of the popular Butterfly House and Insectarium at Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With 755 pieces, the set features lifelike, posable models of three distinct insects: the vivid Blue Morpho Butterfly, the mighty Hercules ... to represent the beauty of the Himeji castle right inside ...

Looking for an out-of-this-world experience that’s still down to earth? Blue Origin’s new Astronaut Village may be the place for you. Located just 10 minutes from a Blue Origin rocket ...

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 ...