WASHINGTON - The way male and female butterflies relate to one another as adults may depend on how they grew up - sort of like people. Except for butterflies, it's not whether they had a happy youth.

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — The way male and female butterflies relate to one another as adults may depend on how they grew up – sort of like people. Except for butterflies, it’s not whether they had a ...

It is as much a part of the British summer as strawberries and cream and the smell of freshly cut grass. But this year, the small tortoiseshell butterfly has done a flit. The orange and black insect ...

Butterflies, since time immemorial, have coloured human imagination and turned out to be a muse for many. However, for the scientists and staffers of Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP), they pose a ...

The way male and female butterflies relate to one another as adults may depend on how they grew up — sort of like people. Except for butterflies, it's not whether they had a happy youth. It's the ...

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The other morning, it was just cool enough to put on a jacket for the first time this “year.” Yes, that sounds strange to me, too. I suppose every profession has a different start to their “year” — ...

If you want to be surrounded by females on the prowl, it pays to be cool, at least if you are a male butterfly. In an unusual example of sex role reversals, females actively court males after being ...

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 ...