From the Miami blue to the Schaus' swallowtail, South Florida is home to many endangered and declining pollinator species that only exist here.

Several years later Rena, now a professional photographer, discovered that one of Rustam’s friends had named a butterfly after him – the Satyrus effendi, a butterfly so rare that some lepidopterists ...

A butterfly has been spotted on the edge of a county for the first time in nearly 200 years. The Silver-washed Fritillary was ...

Sightings of rare or elusive creatures are always a call for celebration, particularly in the conservation world. Not only do ...

Four rare butterfly species have fluttered into view during my continuing quest to photograph the endangered Mount Charleston blue butterfly. Forest-sent consolation prizes that I can’t complain about ...

Conservation scientists want West Michigan gardeners to make sure the lupine plants in their flower beds aren’t killing endangered butterflies. Extremely rare Karner blue butterflies are entirely ...

Ahead of the Big Butterfly Count next month, one of the UK’s rarest butterflies – that was once on ‘the brink of extinction’ – is rising in numbers. The heath fritillary butterfly, nicknamed the ...

An estate in Kent is planting young elm trees bred to be resilient to Dutch elm disease (DED) in a bid to help improve habitats for a rare species of butterfly. The Hadlow Estate near Tonbridge ...

The Butterfly Thief tells a story stranger than fiction. In May 1947, the West Ham Magistrates Court in London was told that ...

After receiving a report about the presence of a rare insect in Wales, a team of conservationists got to work surveying the area. Their efforts paid off — and revealed a “new hope” for a species that ...