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 ...

Light-bending cells cause butterfly wing color The rich, shimmering colors of some butterfly wings are produced not by pigments, but by a special geometric formation of cells, a new study suggests.