It can be a treacherous thing, hunting this particular butterfly. illustration of Papilio blumei: monica serrano, NGM Staff The peacock swallowtail, Papilio blumei, lives only here, on the ...

A mouse's tumours, scales from a butterfly's wings and a smiling cross-section of a bracken fern are some of the incredible ...

In the rainforest flight area discover the beautiful Christmas Butterfly, also known as Papilio Demodocus. 27 December to 6 ...

Although there are over 17,500 species of butterflies in the world, only about 4% of them can be found in the US, with the most often sighted being the cabbage white butterfly. Therefore ...

Among the plethora of butterfly species adorning our planet, some stand out for their exceptional beauty. Here, we delve into ...

The common African mocker swallowtail (Papilio dardanus) is one of the best in the world at this game. Females can mimic the wings of up to five different, more poisonous butterfly species, giving ...

The database contains images of the butterfly specimens upon which Linnaeus based his descriptions. Linnaeus described 305 taxa under the name Papilio. Of these, 241 refer to currently valid butterfly ...

Toxins may be manufactured within the body, as with the red-spotted newt, or they may be acquired passively via consumption of toxic plants, as with the monarch butterfly (Figure 2). Herbivory is ...

For everything there is truly a season and a place, especially when it comes to butterflies. As a butterfly enthusiast, who has photographed butterflies through the years and has even ...

Winners of the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition captured insects, cancer cells, cat claws and more ...

“We do not sell the Papilio desmondi teita and Cymothoe teita pupae. We release adults of these two butterfly subspecies into the wild to increase their numbers,” he said. Butterfly farming ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The difference in appearance between a species’ males and females is called sexual dimorphism. The term implies that ...