The Queen Alexandra's birdwing butterfly is the largest in the world. Still, the species is endangered, so sought after by butterfly specimen collectors, they have a special law to prevent their ...

The goliath birdwing is the second largest butterfly in the world, with a wingspan of up to 28 cm. It's native to New Guinea and some nearby islands ...

He returns, and the men take turns examining his catch: a birdwing. A rare butterfly, and a protected species. “It’s just a small one,” Jasmin says. Even so, it is enormous, able to cover a ...

New Guinea is a haven for butterflies with nearly 1,000 species. Moving through dense jungle in search of the largest of them all, the Darwin team wonders how something so big can be so hard to find!

Meek presented his exciting find to the renowned zoologist Walter Rothschild, who prepared a scientific description of the butterfly - the first known example of its kind. Rothschild named the new ...

Scientifically classified as Troides darsius, this black and yellow butterfly - the Sri Lanka Birdwing found only in Sri Lanka has just been named Sri Lanka’s national butterfly. Pic by Gehan de Silva ...

Beating the competition is everything, and it has forced some species to grow faster, higher, stronger and bigger to win first prize in the survival stakes. Butterfly curator Dr Blanca Huertas ...

The meadow brown butterfly’s Latin name is Maniola or ‘little spirit from hell’. It has been represented as a demon in art. The Greek word psyche means both spirit and butterfly. The Greeks ...