Many butterflies develop wing patterns that mimic other species to protect themselves from predators. While growing complex body parts like wings involves many genes, the difference between two ...

Butterfly wings have been given make-overs by scientists who tweaked a “painting gene” to change their patterns and colours. The research has major implications for understanding how the so-called ...

Butterfly mimics A single gene can switch the wing patterns of butterflies so they mimic toxic species and avoid predation, new research has found. The findings are unprecedented, says co-author, ...

A bumper crop of spikey black caterpillars have appeared on the nation's nettles this summer. Clad in velvet coats peppered with white dots, the creatures have been sunning themselves and munching ...

An international team of scientists working with Heliconius butterflies in Panama was faced with a mystery: how do pairs of unrelated butterflies from Peru to Costa Rica evolve nearly the same ...