The Alcon blue is a ‘brood parasite’ – the insect ... Nash found evidence of evolutionary hotspots when he looked at one of the butterfly’s host species, M.rubra. The chemical coats ...

One species of butterfly – the mountain alcon blue (Maculinea rebeli ... The pupa plays that funky music by drawing small teeth across a comb-like structure but the larva’s method is ...

A beautiful butterfly is able to fool ants into rearing its young by masking them with the ants’ own smell, say researchers. Caterpillars of the alcon blue butterfly have developed an outer coat ...

Call it the cuckoo of butterflies. Like the well-known birds, the Alcon blue butterfly has found a way to get others to raise its offspring. Researchers in Denmark report that the large blue ...

The chemical con trick used by Alcon blue butterfly larvae to get ants to take care of them has been detailed by scientists working in Denmark. The Alcon blue grubs are well known for deceiving the ...

The layabout in question is the Alcon blue butterfly and European colleagues found that its caterpillars are coated in chemicals that smell very similar to those used by the two species it uses as ...