15 August 2011 12:00 AM
Butterflies are are able to mimic other neighbouring species to avoid being eaten by birds because of a "supergene" – a cluster of genes that controls their wing patterns, researchers have found.
07 June 2010 12:00 AM
Naturalists hope that this summer will prove to be a record year for the emblematic large blue butterfly, which was declared extinct in Britain in 1979 but has experienced a remarkable renaissance after it was re-introduced from Sweden in 1984.
07 June 2010 12:00 AM
Some of Britain's most endangered butterflies appear to have enjoyed a comeback this year because of the recent spells of dry, warm weather which may have ended the run of three wet summers in a row, scientists said yesterday.
27 April 2010 12:00 AM
08 April 2010 04:21 PM
As the Easter holidays arrive, the Natural History Museum invites visitors on an expedition across four continents with a new family exhibition featuring hundreds of butterflies from across the world.
05 September 2009 12:00 AM
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24 August 2009 12:00 AM
02 August 2009 12:30 PM
More habitat needs to be created for butterflies to stop the declines in some of the UK's most well-loved insects, conservationists urged today.
25 July 2009 12:00 AM
You might say there are a myriad sorts of summers which make up our experience and linger in the memory – hot summers, wet summers, summers of awakening, summers of love, summers of cricket, summers on the beach, summers in the mountains, summers of unforgettable holidays, summers of dreadful holidays, summers of no holidays at all. And here we are celebrating yet another one.
25 July 2009 12:00 AM
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11 July 2009 12:00 AM
They are the butterflies of high summer and of long hot dusty days – the ones that small children run after on their holidays; the ones we set flying whenever we walk through a grassy field.
13 June 2009 12:00 AM
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