Insects display diverse qualities. Some species possess jewel-like appearances. Green tortoise beetles shimmer. Cuckoo wasps ...

Blue stands out as one of the rarest colors in nature, with almost no animals bearing true blue pigments. This fascinating rarity stems from a unique blend of evolution, chemistry, and physics.

Blue Morpho. Belonging to the tropical areas of Latin America, the blue morpho is a striking butterfly. ... There, the female will lay eggs on plant leaves. 10. Swallowtail.

The California Academy of Sciences is leading an effort to bring back the Xerces blue butterfly, which went extinct around 1941 because of human development in San Francisco. Researchers are ...

Most people know that eggs of the domestic hen come in shades of brown and white, but some select breeds can lay blue eggs, and in between there are shades of olive, green, blue and pink.

A golden-rayed blue butterfly caterpillar. Image credit: Zoos Victoria. In winter 2023, about 2500 of the nursery’s boobialla plants found their forever homes in Zoos Victoria’s habitat-restoration ...

Jennifer Lash, of Maryland, watches Blue Morpho and 24 other species of butterflies and moths zoom around in the Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion in Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.

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