Recently, a gynandromorphic great Mormon butterfly made headlines after emerging from a chrysalis during a 2011 butterfly show at the Natural History Museum in London. (Robert Clark/Courtesy of ...

Model Georgina Alexi poses with a Common Mormon butterfly to mark the opening of Butterflies in the Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley, London, on January 15. This week, wildlife charity Butterfly ...

The left halves are all females of the common mormon butterfly (Papilio polytes). The right halves are either common mormon males (top) or different species of swallowtails (bottom). Adapted from ...

The Great Mormon was discovered at Butterfly World in St Albans. The sex division occurs straight down the middle of the abdomen and is visible in the different wing patterns, with the female half ...

The scarlet mormon butterfly is native to the Philippines. As a larva, it feeds on citrus plants. Adults can have a wingspan of 5 inches. The tiger swallowtail will be familiar to fairgoers ...

4 of 6 — A Great Yellow Mormon butterfly flutters its wings on a leaf. 5 of 6 — A Blue Morpho opens its wings in a spot of sunlight. 6 of 6 — Visitors wander through the butterfly ...

Scientists have discovered the gene enabling multiple female morphs that give the Common Mormon butterfly its very tongue-in-cheek name. doublesex, the gene that controls gender in insects ...

Then you sure would have spotted the Common Mormon. Also known as Papilio polytes, it is a common species of swallowtail butterfly, which is widely distributed across Asia. According to Wiki the ...

SUMMARY: In Bugs! we closely, and I mean closely, follow a Great Mormon butterfly named Papilio (from its scientific name, Papilio memnon) and a green praying mantis named Hierodula (Hierodula ...

The Common Mormon Butterfly has emerged as a winner in a public voting contest run by Bombay Natural History Society and has been given the crown of Mumbai's Butterfly Mumbai’s concrete jungle ...