Purple Butterfly opens with a burst of train-engine steam on a cloudy morning, establishing what the movie is largely about: trains and rain. Purple Butterfly takes place in Manchuria in the late '20s ...

For a few weeks in July, groups of people can be found wandering English woods carrying strange produce - including rotting fish, Stinking Bishop cheese and dirty nappies. They're out to bait the ...

The Purple Emperor is one of Britain's largest and most elusive butterflies, but its beauty belies a violent nature and gruesome habits. The Purple Emperor feeds on rotting flesh and faeces - which is ...

An elusive species of butterfly, which is the second largest in the UK, has been sighted at a National Trust estate. The purple emperor, with a wingspan of around 8cm, was sighted at Sheringham Park ...

A "conservation success story" has seen a British butterfly species coaxed in to a new county. The purple emperor is a relatively common sight in the south of England but until last summer was ...