They're out to bait the Purple Emperor, one of Britain's most elusive butterflies, whose beauty disguises some filthy feeding habits. You never forget your first time, says butterfly enthusiast ...

In just six generations of selection, they took a brown butterfly and shifted it to a rich, purple color. The species chosen for this work was Bicyclus anynana, an African species that also goes ...

Watching butterflies flitting about in the backyard never gets old. Yet with hundreds of species out there, it can be hard to ...

A scheme to plant hundreds of goat willow trees was launched last year, in a bid to attract the insects to the county, after the "iconic" purple emperor butterfly was spotted moving north from its ...