But up close, each scale is like a dab of paint in a Pointillist painting or a tile in a mosaic; they represent an individual unit of color. Lepidoptera, the name of the order that encompasses ...

A vivid blue butterfly — inspired by the morpho species — was painted on a lemon-yellow background, a smile-inducing combination titled “Freedom” that still inspires Bohne-Linnard today.

Native to the rainforests of Mexico, Central America and South America, this bright blue butterfly has a short but stunning life. It is thought that the colour helps the males to mark their ...

It’s that time again: Time to get crazy about butterflies during March Morpho Mania at Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House. Normally, the Chesterfield attraction keeps a few hundred blue morphos, but in ...

Her most recent art series Figments consists of small glass triangles connected by a hinge. Depending on where the viewer stands, the glass’s iridescent coating flickers like a morpho butterfly ...

On the second day, Revis came back and spotted a dead blue morpho butterfly about 3 feet from her. She climbed over a stone barrier to pick up the butterfly when she was spotted by an employee who ...