Kolkata, Apr 29: The mistake of shipping weed to India along with a consignment of wheat from the USA during the 1950s inadvertently gifted India a beautiful species of butterfly ...

In Kerala's Western Ghats, scientists have discovered a new butterfly species, Zographetus mathewi, highlighting the region's ...

Environment News: Bhimtal-based butterfly expert on Indian species Peter Smetacek has come up with a catalogue of the butterflies of India. The catalogue features 1,318 ...

Butterflies and Moths are integral components of life on Earth, they contribute significantly to its rich biodiversity.

It’s thought that there are more than 17,500 butterfly types across the world, with some estimating up to 20,000 butterfly species on Earth. In the United States, approximately 750 species of ...

There were 1,641 species and subspecies of butterfly in India until 2006. In 2015, the number came down to 1,318 and with 10 more species added since, the number is now 1,328, said senior ...

Itanagar, Oct 6: More than 50 different species of butterflies have been spotted at Pange Valley in Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh during the second edition of the three-day Ziro ...

Diana Murguta lets us take a glimpse into the very fragile yet mesmerizingly beautiful world of butterflies. The post This Woman Breeds And Cares For Some Of The Most Beautiful Butterflies Worldwide ...

Lepidopterists in Arunachal Pradesh have helped add two species to India’s expanding list of butterflies. One of them, the Striped Hairstreak, was first recorded by Japanese entomologists in ...

Scientists found “unique” animals basking in sun in Western Ghats and discovered a new species: conjoined silverline butterfly, study said.

The butterfly species, earlier reported in Pakistan and Afghanistan, has been reported for the first time in India by a scientific team led by Avtar Kaur Sidhu, head of the ZSI centre, in surveys ...

Rare four-ringed butterfly rediscovered in India after 61 years by a policeman and researchers, ... Arunachal Pradesh has more than 600 of the 1,327 species of butterflies recorded in India so far.