A peacock butterfly with eyespots on its wings. Credit: Dr Hannah Rowland. Many prey species have eyespot markings that are believed to ward off predators. But how, and does a predator's angle of ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The iconic eyespots that some moths and butterflies use to ward off predators likely evolved in distinct ways, providing insights into how these insects became so diverse. A new ...

Lepidopterans (butterflies and moths) exhibit a splendid diversity of wing color patterns, and many species display black and white, or dark and bright, wing color pattern variants associated with the ...

Macro of a bright green luna moth. The moth is perched on a tree branch. It is mostly bright green with red/brown trim on its upper wings.© Amy C Anderson/Shutterstock.com The Luna moth is one of the ...

The nocturnal dot-underwing moth may use shape-shifting patterns on its wings as a stealthy way to attract mates in the dark. In a study published last September in Current Biology, scientists report ...

A beautiful gif deconstructs the wing motions of a bat, a goose, a moth, a dragonfly and a hummingbird to reveal the looping patterns therein. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to ...

Have you ever felt that a person in a portrait is watching you, their eyes following you about a room? This optical illusion is known as the Mona Lisa effect, after Leonardo da Vinci’s famously ...

The iconic eyespots that some moths and butterflies use to ward off predators likely evolved in distinct ways, providing insights into how these insects became so diverse. The iconic eyespots that ...