Look closely at your backyard butterflies! Here's how to detect the subtle differences among the three butterflies that look like monarchs.

Are monarch butterflies endangered? Monarch population numbers are falling and it's clear that these butterflies need our ...

The owl butterfly is one example of this. Its yellow ringed eyespots look to us like the feathery face of an owl. Whether this owl mimicry is intentional or not is still a contentious issue among ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. How the butterflies evolved to resemble one another has long been a mystery. One pressing question for evolutionary biologists is whether pairs ...

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning ...

Butterflies are bright ... The banded tussock moth has a wing pattern that looks like a network, and its thorax (the scientific term for middle part of the body of an insect) has thin blue ...