Some species have developed large eyespots on their wings, tricking predators into thinking they have come face to face with a much larger creature. The owl butterfly is one example of this. Its ...

The Indian Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) is a large butterfly with striking black and yellow wings, adorned with ...

Males are bright, metallic blue dorsally, while females are primarily dark gray with blue scaling toward the wing bases and orange-capped ... FEEDING: Larval food plants for the Miami blue butterfly ...

The Smith's blue butterfly may be tiny, but it's endangered in a big way. It spends its whole life within a few hundred yards of two native plants, seacliff buckwheat and coast buckwheat — and is ...