It's good to be the queen. That's what the Rebel's Large Blue butterfly has discovered. The insect has found a way to imitate the smells and sounds of queen ants so well that worker ants welcome ...

The Large Blue butterfly is a warrior. With its azure wings, the butterfly appears fragile in the European breeze, but in truth, it is a bombardier in search of a target — nests of Myrmica ants buried ...

It's a sight that never fails to wrench the heart: a helpless butterfly, downed by wind or injury, flapping feebly as it is swarmed over by ants and slowly eaten to death. But some butterflies, ...

It sounds like one of Aesop's fables but the story of the blue butterfly and the red ant is probably not one you would like to send your children off to sleep with. The caterpillar of the blue ...

These ants’ transparent abdomens change to the color of their food after eating. Photo by Mohamed Babu/Solent News/Rex F/AP Images Not long ago, Dr. Mohamed Babu, of Mysore, South India, noticed ...

It's a sight that never fails to wrench the heart: a helpless butterfly, downed by wind or injury, flapping feebly as it is swarmed over by ants and slowly eaten to death. But some butterflies, ...