Using either card stock or water color paper, paint your own design on each butterfly's wings. This method does come with the risk of your paper warping, so make sure to use only use a little ...

"Imagine a paint-by-number image of a butterfly," Owen McMillan, a zoologist with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, says in a statement. "The instructions for coloring the wing are ...

They absorb some wavelengths of light and reflect others, but University of Central Florida researcher Debashis Chanda has devised an entirely new kind of paint inspired by butterfly wings.

Jane Kim can tell you where every vein is on the colorful wings of a female monarch butterfly, and knows the exact proportions of each segment of the creature's delicate legs. But until the fall ...