Right now, students from around Greenville County are painting thousands of bright ceramic butterflies and learning about a very dark time in history. They are taking part in The Butterfly Project, ...

Laguna Hills High School and the Laguna Hills Community Center are combining their collective artistic talents to help re-store the four butterfly sculptures that help beautify the outside of the ...

Chris Packham is urging people to take part in the world's largest insect citizen science survey. This butterfly undertakes an extraordinary 7,500-mile round trip from tropical Africa to the Arctic ...

A painted lady butterfly lands on Morag Stewart's wildflowers in her All Saints Community Garden, Monday, May 20, 2019, at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Spruce Street in Spokane, Wash.

Move over, monarchs. The painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) now boasts the farthest known butterfly migration. Though found across the world, the orange-and-brown beauties that live in Southern ...

The colors and patterns many animals possess can sometimes be described as artistic. Some animals, particularly butterflies, can be so precisely adorned with an array of colors and patterns that it ...

A Washington State University butterfly expert described painted ladies as a “cosmopolitan” butterfly because they can be found on every continent aside from Antarctica. The ladies are coming to town, ...

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 ...

Painted lady butterflies are a normal sight in Britain during the summer months. But once every decade the UK experiences a huge influx of the bewinged creatures from Europe. This is why you should ...