A queen butterfly’s underwings resemble a monarch’s, with white outlines on black hindwing veins and dark borders featuring white dots. Orange forewings have white specks. I watched this queen ...

Its 7-month development cycle is a biological challenge to replenishing the wild population. The butterfly is a specialist and lives in a very narrow ecological niche within Papua New Guinea’s Oro ...

Most anyone who lives in Texas is familiar with the heroic journey that the Monarch butterfly makes every year, as well as the beauty that species possesses. Yet there is a smaller, and less colorful, ...

Looks: A close relative of the monarch butterfly, queens are medium-sized and generally orange and brown. Queens belong to the brush-footed family of butterflies. In early stages: Caterpillars feed ...

In 1906, naturalist Albert Stewart Meek discovered a butterfly so large that it defied belief. Living high in the canopies of Papua New Guinea, the Queen Alexandra birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) ...