Another popular technique, known as aposematism, is for a butterfly to advertise its toxicity to predators by exhibiting warning colours. The caterpillars of tiger moths and milkweed butterflies ...

Butterflies are bright ... Examples include the Anna tiger moth, with creamy yellow hindwings under forewings patterned like broken glass, the ultronia’s red and black, and the Io moth ...

The life of a butterfly is a brief but beautiful one. And the whole process can be seen in the Museum's Sensational Butterflies tropical house. This year, the grandchildren of the first tiger ...