Thousands of light years away, there’s a “space butterfly” colored with brilliant blues and clouds of purple and red. It’s an image we’ve never seen in this much detail before. So named ...

Image source, Neil Hulme / Butterfly Conservation The Purple Emperor was first defined as a species, Apatura iris , in 1758 It is one of the UK's largest butterflies, second only to the Swallowtail.

Phillip Lowe took this image of a female Purple Emperor at Whiteley Pastures, Fareham, in July 2009. The butterflies live for only a few days or weeks in July and August, and rarely come down to ...

Is there anything more enchanting than a beautiful butterfly? Their majestic presence, brilliant colors, and bold, patterned bodies—some striped or even polka-dotted—are truly mesmerizing. With ...

The purple emperor butterfly is spotted in Derbyshire for the first time since records began in 1829.