It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It’s also hard to believe that the life cycle of this incredibly colorful ...

Last summer, the elusive white-letter hairstreak butterfly was spotted in Scotland for the first time in 133 years. Conservationists wondered if the critter had established a breeding colony in the ...

The mantid eggs that have hatched at the butterfly house include some of the most striking types: dead leaf mantids, zebra mantids, ivory boxer mantids, Tanzanian ground mantids, ghost mantids and ...

When born, baby caterpillars are smaller than a grain of rice. In their microscopic world, even the tiniest obstacles prove to be a challenge. - A painted lady has her own offspring to create and lays ...

A groundbreaking project has been launched to help protect one of the UK’s most spectacular insects. The British Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon britannicus) is found exclusively in the county ...