T he zebra swallowtail butterfly is boldly zebra striped in black and white with red accents. Wings have bold black stripes on a white or teal-white background. Hindwings feature a red stripe on ...

Trying out something new today with this swipe acrylic painting! I really enjoyed experimenting with embellishments and would ...

Monarch butterflies with more white spots on their mostly orange-and-black wings are more successful at long-distance migration. Some scientists think the spots may affect airflow around their wings.

The butterflies scrutinized in the study use black as a key part of their wing color schemes. Bright patches ranging from blue to green to red pop out against the ultra-dark backgrounds.

Black swallowtail adults are sexually dimorphic, meaning that they have different color patterns--their ventral wing surfaces and their bodies are the same but their dorsal patterns differ. Thorax and ...

Migratory monarchs have white spots framing their orange-and-black wings, while other closely related butterflies that don’t migrate lack them altogether. That led Andy Davis at the University ...

The paper kite butterfly, native to Asia, is light yellow or off-white with an elaborate pattern of swooping black lines and dots.But its chrysalis—a hard case that protects the caterpillar ...