Butterfly wings are covered with scales

Butterflies and moths form the insect order Lepidoptera. The word ‘Lepidoptera’ comes from the Greek ‘lepis’ meaning scale and ‘petron’...

One of New Zealand’s most well known insects is the wētā, of the Orthoptera order, but there are thousands of...

Almost all of the butterflies in New Zealand are native and most are endemic. Compared to big, colourful species from...

Butterflies and moths form the insect order Lepidoptera. The word ‘Lepidoptera’ comes from the Greek ‘lepis’ meaning scale and ‘petron’...

Butterflies are the exhibitionists of the insect world. For many invertebrates, camouflage is the best defence against predators, so how...