It’s Pollinator Week! A time to celebrate, bring awareness to, and enjoy the incredible variety of creatures that perform the ...

The butterfly landed, and opened its wings flat so I could ... more casual with our language. The black swallowtail is capable of having two to three broods per year in the northern portions of its ...

Understanding why the wings are so dark could lead to the development of ultra-black synthetic materials. Butterfly wings are made of scales that usually consist of two chitin layers. One layer is a ...

"And that was correct. Black butterfly wings turned out to be a natural solar collector worth studying and mimicking," Fan said. Scientists long have known that butterfly wings contain tiny scales ...

“This RNA molecule directly influences where the black pigment appears on the wings, shaping the butterfly’s color patterns in a way we hadn’t anticipated.” The researchers further explored how the ...

"And that was correct. Black butterfly wings turned out to be a natural solar collector worth studying and mimicking," Fan said. Scientists long have known that butterfly wings contain tiny scales ...