Despite the name, the common buckeye is anything but ordinary. The eyespots make this brown butterfly a real attention-getter!

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 ...

Our 7 fascinating facts about butterflies explore their ... There are some species, such as the Karner Blue Butterfly, that have an incredibly short lifespan of only 4-5 days.

10 Enchanting Butterfly Facts Revealed! Discover astonishing butterfly facts and delight in learning about the superlatives of butterflies, from the largest to the smallest to the fastest. Whether ...

The Karner blue is an example. It’s a small, endangered butterfly that depends on oak savannas and pine barren ecosystems. These habitats are uncommon and require management, especially ...

The endangered Karner blue butterfly has struggled with habitat loss. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

The California Academy of Sciences used genetic testing to identify a blue butterfly species similar to the Xerces species that went extinct and disappeared from the San Francisco coastline.

Work to preserve the pine barren and population monitoring has seen the local population of Karner blue butterflies grow from as few as 200 individuals to as many as 10,000 to 20,000 Pollinator ...

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 ...