Blackwell and Kurt Johnson and released earlier this year by Yale University Press, is one of the first works to thoroughly investigate his butterfly studies and scientific illustrations.

A butterfly is ... more beautiful amongst the insects.” Owls seem to be in vogue for Halloween. Whether you are crafting a mask or applying face paint, this illustration of a Great Horned ...

This moth specimen was mistakenly identified as a butterfly in 1793 ... Johan Fabricius was busy churning out scientific names for new insects. A student of the so-called father of modern taxonomy ...

Entomologists have discovered Papilio solstitius, a new tiger swallowtail butterfly that appears in summer in eastern North America.

But scientists are still learning about the insect. The butterfly used to live only on the San Francisco Peninsula. But by the early 1940s, less than a century after its formal scientific ...

Small creatures with low body mass, such as insects, have to deal with the fact ... The living parts of butterfly wings include scent pads and patches that release pheromones, as well as veins ...