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 ...

It was also the worst summer in the count’s history for a number of popular species including small tortoiseshell and common blue. “Currently, more than half of the UK’s butterfly species ...

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 ...

As the first North American insect to go extinct due to humans, the Xerces blue butterfly has become an icon for insect conservation. New research signals a warning for insect conservation as ...

A 93-year-old Xerces blue specimen’s DNA shows that the butterfly is a distinct species, making it the first U.S. insect humans drove to extinction.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...