The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our community in a variety of ways, including 4-H, farm advisers, and ...

We explain bilateral gynandromorphism - seen in butterflies, birds, and crustaceans. Half the animal is female, and the other half is male.

Each year, monarch butterflies migrate between Canada and Mexico, a generational flight with deep environmental resonance.

To some people, seeing a monarch butterfly has meaning. These orange and black fliers can be a symbol of strength, change and ...

Learn facts about the monarch butterfly, including how how to tell male and female monarchs apart and if monarchs are ...

Migration Magic It’s not easy being a monarch butterfly these days. Your caterpillar’s essential milkweed food is no longer abundant; illegal logging and beetle infestations threaten your main winter ...

Running March 6 through May 10, the 65-acre resort is celebrating the spring season with floral and Easter displays, scavenger hunts, and photo ops.

Meet the eye-catching comma – one of the UK's first butterfly species to appear in spring. The first butterfly of the year always lifts the spirits – and it’s often a comma. This butterfly seems to ...

Blue Morpho butterflies return to the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly house to kick off the spring break season. Celebrating the final days of winter, more than 1,500 blue morpho butterflies have been ...

Comparison of over 200 high-quality butterfly and moth genomes reveals key insights into their biology, evolution and diversification over the last 250 million years, as well as clues for conservation ...

To address this, the researchers used a flight simulator system that allowed individual moths to fly in any direction while attached to a tether ( Dreyer et al., 2021 ). The researchers were able to ...

How ancient gene transfers, genomes, and pollination shaped moths and butterflies - and why their sudden decline is raising ...