It’s easy to just wait for a specimen to die, and then our sourcer picks it up off the ground and wraps it up. Morgan (right) and Micah Loftin in their home office, in Denton, on September 19, 2023.

We position the open wings on a flat board so they’ll remain in the spread position once the butterfly has dried. Then we stick a label to the pin, indicating exactly where the specimen was ...

Monster In The Machine's main guy, Shannon Crawford, was in a band called Cellophane a few years back. Unfortunately, Cellophane kind of fizzled out as many bands do. Crawford took ...

A butterfly’s wings, their colours and patterns, are made up of tiny, overlapping scales. These are at their brightest for the first day or two, but over time, the scales fall out or rub off.

This is the 93-year-old Xerces blue butterfly specimen that researchers collected tissue samples from for this study. Field Museum The Xerces blue butterfly has the dubious distinction of being ...

Fowles claimed that the theme of the novel was about gender and class relationships but it is clear he hated butterfly collecting, indeed all kinds of specimen collecting, with a passion.

Welcome to the 2024 election: the real world version of science fiction, the butterfly-effect-on-steroids moment in world history. No one should be happy about it.

Scientists at Cambridge University have found a way to mimic the colours on tropical butterfly wings, which could be used to make bank notes and credit cards far harder to forge.

A butterfly’s wings, their colours and patterns, are made up of tiny, overlapping scales. These are at their brightest for the first day or two, but over time, the scales fall out or rub off.