Its 7-month development cycle is a biological challenge to replenishing the wild population. The butterfly is a specialist and lives in a very narrow ecological niche within Papua New Guinea’s Oro ...
The Bartram’s scrub-hairstreak may be small enough to fit on a fingertip, but it has become one of North America's most ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia is home to many beautiful butterflies and moths, with a variety of these insects observed in the state considered rare by the Virginia Department of Conservation and ...
In 1906, naturalist Albert Stewart Meek discovered a butterfly so large that it defied belief. Living high in the canopies of Papua New Guinea, the Queen Alexandra birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) ...