The world's largest butterfly, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing, is a rare and magnificent creature that can reach wingspans of up to 28 cm. It is native to the forests of Papua New Guinea, where it faces threats from habitat loss and illegal trade. But how did this giant butterfly get its name and how was…
The world's largest butterfly, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing, is a rare and magnificent creature that can reach wingspans of up to 28 cm. It is native to the forests of Papua New Guinea, where it faces threats from habitat loss and illegal trade. But how did this giant butterfly get its name and how was…
A Colombian researcher has spent years scouring museum collections around the world to help answer a big question: how many different kinds of assassin bugs are there?
THE WASHINGTON POST – Scientists have named a new group of butterflies with dark eye-shaped patterns on their orange wings after Sauron, the omnipresent evil lord in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings novels – what the Natural History Museum in London called an “homage to an eye-conic villain”. An international research group has identified […]
Researchers have identified nine new groups of butterflies—though one in particular seems to have caught their eye. With fiery orange and jet black eyespots at the bottom of their wings, …