The Chestnut Tiger (Parantica sita) in Repulse Bay, prior to its capture. Photo courtesy: Yuet Fung LING. On 21 December 2024 ...

A vapour sensor based on an exact replica of the butterfly-scale design will most probably be unable to selectively quantify more than ten individual vapours from their mixture. A man-made ...

McCloskey advances on the butterfly, its body immobilised on the table with a loop of wire. One of its wings is stretched out - black inky veins running through a delicate orange membrane.

A butterfly cut, which quite literally gets its name due to its resemblance to butterfly wings, involves layers ... and long ...

The complete disruption of mir-193 eliminated black and dark wing colors in the African squinting bush brown butterfly, Bicyclus anynana, the Indian cabbage white butterfly, Pieris canidia ...

Over the past two decades, scientists discovered that the majority of melanic wing color variants are controlled by a single genomic region surrounding the protein-coding gene 'cortex'.