A private sector initiative is setting up urban butterfly gardens in Sri Lanka, creating butterfly sanctuaries. The creator of the urban butterfly habitats is proposing the replication of his ...

It is the largest Sri Lankan butterfly with a wingspan spreading 165-180 mm. Its large forewings are glossy black and hindwings bright yellow with a black margin making it ‘hard to miss’ when in ...

Butterflies are beautiful, innocent creatures loved by all. But the larvae of the latest addition to Sri Lanka’s list of butterflies could become a pest to banana plants, warns the young butterfly ...

Though the Blue Mormon was declared the state butterfly in June, very little information is available about the winged insect. To overcome this hurdle, forest minister Sudhir Mungatiwar announced that ...

Chennai: A butterfly species believed to be a native of Sri Lanka is now found to have a second home in the Western Ghats. The species discovered in the Agasthiyarmalai Biosphere reserve is known as ...

An Italian father and his son have been fined 60 million Sri Lankan rupees ($200,000; £150,000) for trying to smuggle hundreds of endemic insects - including 92 species of butterflies - out of a ...

The two men from northern Italy face two years in jail if they fail to pay the fine by 24 September. Two Italian men were fined 60 million Sri Lankan rupees (€180,425) for trying to smuggle hundreds ...

A butterfly species believed to be a native of Sri Lanka is now found to have a second home in the Western Ghats. The species discovered in the Agasthiyarmalai Biosphere reserve is known as Nacaduba ...