While wandering through an alpine meadow, Haiyong spotted a patch of blue among the grass. Initially thinking they were flowers, he approached carefully and realised they were butterflies. To preserve ...

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 ...

Silver-studded blue butterflies have been lost from more than 80% of their former habitats in the past century A protected species of butterfly has been reintroduced to its former home after an ...

With no sightings in two years, the rare Ogasawara blue butterfly, named after its island chain natural habitat far south of Tokyo and designated a national natural treasure, is considered extinct ...

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 ...