When our first batch of blue morpho butterflies began to emerge from their chrysalises in 2015, we were there to catch the process on film. Each individual butterfly takes only one or two minutes to ...

The females are brown with smaller areas of blue interspersed. Luke says, 'The blue morpho makes my work a little easier. Its emergence success rate (when a butterfly safely breaks out of its ...

A group of Osaka University researchers has developed a novel design for daylight window panes inspired by the structure of the Morpho butterfly wings that shine in a brilliant blue. The pane ...

The paper kite butterfly’s chrysalises take on a golden color to send a warning to birds that they are not safe to eat, while the striped blue crow’s silver chrysalises camouflage them with ...