A yellow band across a wing might look like a simple flourish. In the South American rainforest, it can mean survival.

A new study in PLOS Biology reveals that butterfly and moth mimicry patterns have been shaped by the same two genes, ivory and optix, for about 120 million years. Researchers identified noncoding DNA ...

Have you ever felt that a person in a portrait is watching you, their eyes following you about a room? This optical illusion is known as the Mona Lisa effect, after Leonardo da Vinci’s famously ...

New research from Nepal shows insect pollinator decline, including butterflies, threatens nutrition and livelihoods, while a separate genetic study finds butterfly and moth wing patterns have relied ...

Study discover that evolution reuses same genes to create identical wing patterns in butterflies and moths separated by 120 ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The iconic eyespots that some moths and butterflies use to ward off predators likely evolved in distinct ways, providing insights into how these insects became so diverse. A new ...

Schachat, Sandra R. and Brown, Richard L. 2018. "Wing patterns of ditrysian moths (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) include variants and violations of predictive models ...

A beautiful gif deconstructs the wing motions of a bat, a goose, a moth, a dragonfly and a hummingbird to reveal the looping patterns therein. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to ...

Butterflies and a moth species reused the same two genes, ivory and optix, to create similar warning colors over millions of ...

The iconic eyespots that some moths and butterflies use to ward off predators likely evolved in distinct ways, providing insights into how these insects became so diverse. The iconic eyespots that ...