Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around ... believe that the pattern of color could interact with sunlight ...

Monarch butterflies ... white spots, but their guess is that the alternating color patterns give them an aerodynamic advantage. “The trailing edge [of the monarch’s wing] is all black, and ...

Lepidopterans (butterflies and moths) exhibit a splendid diversity of wing colour patterns, and many species display black and white, or dark and bright, wing colour pattern variants associated with ...

Monarch butterflies ... white spots, but their guess is that the alternating color patterns give them an aerodynamic advantage. “The trailing edge [of the monarch’s wing] is all black, and ...