The green hairstreak butterfly (Callophrys rubi) gets its blue-green hue from complex nanoscale structures on its wings. The structures, called gyroids, are repeating patterns of spiral-shaped curls.

Butterfly wings may rank among the most delicate structures in nature, but they have given researchers powerful inspiration for new technology that doubles production of hydrogen gas — a green ...

Scientists have found that a butterfly species from Australasia - Graphium sarpedon or common blueblottle - has 15 classes of light-detecting ... and use their blue-green iridescent wings for ...

Heavily landscaped with green roofs, planting beds, and water features, Butterfly Square was designed to look like an extension of the neighboring park. To keep the development pedestrian-friendly ...

But there's nothing typical about the monarch butterfly or its amazing journey ... cells in the eye that sensed the presence of this UV light and cells in the brain that were directly linked ...

A butterfly with olive green eyes discovered in the United States and the Neotropics (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Eumaeini). ZooKeys , 2013; 305: 1 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.305.5081 Cite This Page : ...

That’s super impressive,” says John Warner, a distinguished research fellow at the company Zymergen and a pioneer of green ... light in different ways. The tiny scales on a morpho butterfly ...

The spring sun glinted off the cars rolling through Ichetucknee Springs State Park, but the caravan wasn't headed to the park ...

They are one of nature's great sources of colour - but how does light and colour affect butterfly behaviour ... the eye which respond to light - blue, green and red, he explained.