After Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida in 1992, the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct: No one recorded a single sighting for years. Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up ...
The Smith's blue butterfly may be tiny, but it's endangered in a big way. It spends its whole life within a few hundred yards of two native plants, seacliff buckwheat and coast buckwheat — and is ...
Dorset Council has approved planning permission for banks to be set up at Black Bush Down near Cranborne for the small blue butterfly. Conservationists say the species lives in the area ...
A butterfly once extinct in the UK has been reintroduced to another part of the Gloucestershire countryside. Some 1,100 larvae of the large blue butterfly were taken from other West Country ...
Bees and butterflies also adore the plant and its pale blue flowers. In Florida and nearby areas, it's even a common host plant to the Cassius blue butterfly (Leptotes cassius). Despite its appeal to ...
Native to the rainforests of Mexico, Central America and South America, this bright blue butterfly has a short but stunning life. It is thought that the colour helps the males to mark their ...