Jaime Brynne Revis – better known as "The Butterfly Bandit" – won't be going to this year’s Krohn Conservatory butterfly exhibit. Actually, she can't. Last year, the visual artist made headlines when ...

There are more than 140,000 species of butterflies and moths in the world, fluttering on every continent except Antarctica. Their wings contain countless patterns and colors, providing critical tools ...

The Blue Morpho butterfly, a stunning creature from Costa Rica, is known for its large size and vivid blue upper side. But there's more to that blue than just beauty. And as the Museum of Life and ...

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 ...

Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., "The life and work of Martin Johnson Heade: a critical analysis and catalogue raisonne," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, no. 369 ...

The vivid blue color of morpho butterflies doesn’t come from pigment but from tiny nanostructures on their wings that bend and reflect light. In a recent study, scientists designed a thin film with a ...

It’s that time again: Time to get crazy about butterflies during March Morpho Mania at Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House. Normally, the Chesterfield attraction keeps a few hundred blue morphos, but in ...

Scientists have worked out how butterflies use nano-structures to create their beautiful colours and have recreated it in the lab Credit: Photo: Geoff Pugh/The Telegraph The shimmering iridescence of ...