Grey hairstreak butterfly With antennae-shaped tails, this tricky butterfly pretends to have two heads. Seen above in its usual upside-down stance, the dummy head is meant to fool predators.

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.

Posted: Apr 27, 2017: Understanding crystal growth in butterfly wings (Nanowerk News) Tiny, individual crystals on the underside of a Mexican butterfly’s wings give the insect a distinctive green ...

There are 120 species of butterfly that live and breed in Delaware, according to The Nature Conservancy. The list just grew by one more. The tiny Hessel’s Hairstreak butterfly is about as big as your ...

The curiously isolated hairstreak butterfly has a wingspan of up to an inch and a half. Its wings are brown on top and gray-brown underneath, with black spots.

That would plunge it through the habitat of the Green Hairstreak butterfly. This unusual creature, whose wings are brown on top and green underneath, lives in an area that is a mosaic of woodland ...

These coastal green hairstreak butterflies, also known as the "jewels of the Inner Sunset," were once thought to be extinct in San Francisco due to habitat loss and invasive plants ...

A new butterfly species, Satyrium curiosolus, was discovered in a recent study at Blakiston Fan in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. It has unique evolutionary history, having likely remained ...

These coastal green hairstreak butterflies, also known as the “jewels of the Inner Sunset,” were once thought to be extinct in San Francisco due to habitat loss and invasive plants — but, in ...

Until Christopher Heckscher spotted a Hessel’s hairstreak in southern Delaware earlier this year, the last time anyone had seen the endangered butterfly species on the Delmarva Peninsula was in ...

Green Hairstreak butterfly stands in the way of KCC’s £250m regeneration of the A229 Blue Bell Hill between Maidstone and Chatham. ... whose wings are brown on top and green underneath, ...