These shots from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why butterflies have floated into our hearts ...

The zebra swallowtail of eastern forests is our personal choice for the most beautiful butterfly. It’s striped black and white, as the name suggests, and has red accents. Very long tails on the ...

It’s literally because they were curious about how it survived in isolation.) They announced the discovery in an April 2025 study published in ZooKeys. The curiously isolated hairstreak butterfly has ...