It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It ...

Wall brown butterflies adapt quickly through evolution as the climate warms and they shift northward. They grow faster and ...

The wall brown butterfly (Lasiommata megera) is common in large parts of Europe. In Sweden it is often found on beaches and pastures, where it likes to rest on rocks and stone walls. Photo: Mats Itton ...

As the climate warms, many species are shifting northward into areas that were previously too cold for them. A study, ...

While strolling through the Twin Cities, you might spot a monarch or swallowtail butterfly drifting gracefully through patches of blooming flowers, dusting themselves with pollen.

We often come across small caterpillars in spring, nibbling on leaves all day long. A few weeks later, they disappear and ...

The team fed tobacco cutworm larvae ( Spodoptera litura) a rigid belt-like nanocarbon called [6]MCPP, topped up with boiled ...

Caterpillars become ‘crazy option for synthetic chemists’ to make oxygen-doped nanocarbons. By Julia Robinson 2025-06-10T08:45:00+01:00. No ... To carry out the in-insect synthesis they designed a ...

The larva navigates its environment almost entirely blind, using its other senses to find its way. After metamorphosis, the adult butterfly has two large, fully developed compound eyes, one on each ...

The paleontologists who made the discovery also identified a previously unknown Lepidoptera species and have named it Ampatiri eloisae.

Tobacco cutworm caterpillars can convert [6]MCPP to [6]MCPP-oxylene far more effectively than laboratory settings. Photo credit: RIKEN Enzymes, evolution, and future applications.