Did you know that Florida has a state butterfly? In 1996, Gov. Lawton Chiles designated the Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charitonius) as Florida’s official state butterfly. This butterfly is found in ...

Male zebra longwing butterfly vision sticks to a duller pallette, perhaps for mating reasons. The genes that explain this may help unlock how differences between sexes evolve. By Veronique Greenwood ...

While the Monarch butterfly gets all the headlines, we at the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens and much of Savannah have been making our own butterfly news. Would you believe zebras for New Year? The ...

The zebra longwing is Florida's state butterfly. (Did you know that we had a state butterfly? Harry the Heron didn't.) These butterflies are native to Florida and other tropical areas. They are ...

Butterflies are common throughout the world; however, there is more to them than meets the eye. From optical illusions in their wings to generation-spanning migrations and caterpillars committing ...

On a wooded hillside along the banks of the Allegheny River, Gabrielle Marsden brushed up against an oblong leaf: Asimina triloba. The American pawpaw.The deciduous tree bears North America’s largest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The zebra swallowtail was common in southwestern Ontario, around Windsor in the early 1900s. Development and cutting down woods in ...