CHICO — Chico biologist Sterling Mattoon is donating his extensive collection of 60,000 butterfly specimens to the University of Florida — after more than 70 years of collecting. “I’m 92 years old,” ...

This piece originally appeared on the Conversation. Who doesn’t love butterflies? While most people won’t think twice about destroying a wasp nest on the side of the house, spraying a swarm of ants in ...

After nearly a century in the Natural History Museum collections, a new butterfly species has been discovered because of its mustache. It lay undiscovered in the collection for 90 years. After nearly ...

Almost eight decades after Colin Wyatt stole and then vandalised thousands of precious Australian butterfly specimens, scientists are still untangling his web of deception. Between 1946 and 1947, the ...

Author Robert A. Heinlein called butterflies self-propelled flowers. “They’re nature’s art,” Victoria Bayless says. “Each one is a surprise.” So when the Louisiana Art & Science Museum paired ...

Discover the explorers responsible for the oldest butterfly collection in existence. They journeyed thousands of miles in cramped boats to discover new plants and animals, were astounded by their ...

New research on the Museum's Lepidoptera collection has shed light on how some butterflies pretend to be lethal. For decades, biologists have been intrigued by the staggering diversity of wing ...