Following a bad year for butterflies in 2024, it’s more important than ever to take part in this year’s Big Butterfly Count. Hannah Stephenson finds out more ...

The Fender’s blue butterfly has fluttered away from the brink of extinction. The species, once so rare it was thought to be extinct, is no longer considered endangered, according to a January 11 ...

In 1979, somewhere in Dartmoor, a butterfly died. That would hardly have been an exceptional event, but this individual was a Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea arion) and it was the last of its kind in ...

Although the Smith's blue has been listed under the Endangered Species Act since 1976, the ongoing failure of government agencies to properly enforce the law has left the butterfly in dire straits.

The large blue butterfly was declared extinct in Britain in 1979, but was first reintroduced from populations on the continent nearly 40 years ago and has been established at a number of sites ...

The morpho butterfly flashes perhaps the most stunning blue in the animal kingdom. But here's the weird bit: That's no pigment. It's actually a trick of light, thanks to some fancy nano-level ...