Butterflies are concerned with scrupulous ecosystem’s productivity. Their diversity and richness indicate affluence in natural variety resource cock-and-bull story. The present study reports 40 butterfly species of 5 families, which were obtained from an investigation conducted over a period six months, June 2020 to November 2020, five different areas Dinhata subdivision, West Bengal, India, vi...

Concerns about the potential toxicity of pollen from genetically modified maize on neighbouring butterflies prompted urgent studies, reports Nigel Williams.

The rich diversity of wing color patterns within and between butterfly species makes butterflies an attractive system for studying the development and evolution of pattern formation. Study of the molecular and genetic basis of pattern formation in butterflies has revealed that a number of developmentally important genes possess expression patterns in the developing wing that correlate with the ...