You can colour the buttercream at this stage. To make butterfly cakes, cut the top off each cake using a small serrated knife – angling the knife in slightly so that you make a concave cut.

The holes in this specimen show the passion butterflies have inspired for centuries ... He wasn't the only collector in the 1800s and early 1900s to capture large flying insects in this way. Obsessed ...

Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years. Scientists found fossilised butterfly scales the size of a speck of dust inside ...

Cakes are best stored in airtight tins rather than plastic boxes. Once a cake has been cut, the cut surfaces will start to dry. Covering them with a piece of aluminium foil minimises the effect.

Here are the butterflies we may never see again in Britain - and three that have been saved. This small, slow-flying butterfly used to live across most of southern England and Wales. Now ...

Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations of schoolchildren have reared monarchs in classrooms, watching in wonder as striped caterpillars ...

On the heels of “Ingo Swann” and “Garmonbozie,” Flying ... To Pimp A Butterfly. While the previous Flying Lotus releases have skewed more toward jazz and funk, Spirit Box has so far ...

For most butterflies, finding a mate to share their short lives with is their most important mission. To meet 'the one' among a swathe of unsuitable or unwilling partners, butterflies must adopt ...

On the slopes of a volcano in central Mexico, biologist Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero and his team envision a climate refuge for oyamel fir trees and the monarch butterflies that depend on them.